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...husband and I would try to take 15 minutes out of each day to just talk about what we were feeling [and] put everything into perspective. The bottom line was to enjoy our son as much as possible and focus on him and not the guilt or the pain." They adopted their second child, Alex, now 7, from Guatemala in November 1993. And Raab, with the help of Resolve, launched her own support group in 1991 in nearby Hyannis, just for those with secondary infertility...
...PAIN ZAPPER...
Doctors sometimes let patients suffering from chronic pain self-administer prescribed doses of intravenous drugs. But those patients have always had to be tethered to an IV and drug bag. The first fully implantable drug pump could change all that. Here's how it works: morphine is stored in a pager-size pump just under the skin of the abdomen. A plastic catheter runs from the pump to the fluid-filled space outside the spinal cord, where pain signals travel. When the patient presses a handheld remote, the pump sends a measured dose of morphine directly to the spine. According...
...does not foresee an "increase in investigative activity...outside of Oregon," even medical groups historically opposed to euthanasia are denouncing the potential intrusion. Dr. Warren Jones, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, called the move a "major travesty" that will encourage physicians to curb the use of pain medications lest their bedside manner be misinterpreted...
Last week the American Pain Federation, a coalition of medical and patient groups, shot off a letter to the DEA demanding that field agents avoid investigations that could "inhibit" doctors from prescribing opiates such as morphine. Though Oregon's is the only state law that allows prescriptions of lethal medicine for terminally ill patients (there have been 70 assisted suicides in four years), 22 states have passed laws to encourage aggressive treatment of intractable pain. "Knowing I could choose when and how to die has given me peace," says Barbara Oskamp, 70, a Portland retiree who suffers from a brain...