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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Hekate
(90,681 posts)...including the unwillingness of the parents (and some here) to understand and give credence to established medical practice regarding kidney masses in little children. I am so very glad you posted the mother's update that she is following doctors' advice and "respect(ing) the process."
Some DUers have medical experience and others have looked it up, and some have also tried to track the reliability of the original website or FB page or whatever that passed this story along. I find that commendable, actually. I myself have occasionally gotten caught up in someone's sad story online, often an "as told to" with a particular narrative line. I have grown wary.
When bad things happen to a child it is very scary for the parents. But panic makes things worse.
(Sigh) I wrote several paras of personal experience, which I just deleted. Suffice it to say, whether my grown son and daughter know it or not, their bad medical emergencies as kids were bad for me as well. After my son's terrible bicycle accident, I used some of my freeway time to scream and plead with whatever gods may be. But not in front of my son or the medical personnel. Advocate for them -- yes. Fight with the doctors and delay treatment? No.