A goddaughter dying. Gets politicized

[AzJames73]

Tanuki (7,267 posts)                     https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029678073

I am destroyed. My precious angel is dying.
She is only 10 years old, my goddaughter's darling little girl and she is as precious to me as if she were my own. Two days ago she was diagnosed with a horrible and invariably fatal brain cancer: Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. She will probably die within 9 months. I am heartbroken and can't stop bawling and at times howling like a wounded animal when I am alone. I am praying for a miracle and hope you will too if you are the praying type, and even if you aren't I know DUers have compassionate hearts and we can count on many kind thoughts for healing. I keep saying that there was once a child who was the first ever to be cured of leukemia, and now just look at how many survive and go on to live normal, happy lives. So maybe she can be the first to walk away from DIPG. It is just probably a fluke of nature, a tiny random gene sequencing blip. I thought there was nobody to blame, but then I thought of this. DIPG (in 48 hours I have come to learn) is rare, with only 200 to 300 new cases in the U.S. per year, so no drug company will bother looking for a cure. Dedicated researchers are nonetheless doing all they can to study and defeat it. And then I thought of this....St. Jude's Hospital is exactly the kind of place that is in the forefront of this type of research, and Donald ****ing Trump skimmed nearly a million dollars off of donations that people made in good faith to Eric ****ing Trump's "Foundation," buying into the lie that there would be little or no overhead to the fundraisers because they were using "donated" family resources. This is not a new revelation, and I myself have previously posted at least two or three times condemning what they did, namely line their pockets and wallow in their obscene wealth at the expense of pediatric cancer patients. But today it's personal. That nearly-a-million dollars would have gone a long way to find the cure to the cursed disease that will kill my darling little angel, and those of so many others who are in the same abject misery as I am today at the prospect of such a devastating loss. **** you Donald Trump....give back the nearly-a-million dollars you stole from sick and dying children. **** you too, Franklin Graham, for knowingly accepting ill-gotten cash bribes from this polluted POS and then anointing him as "God's chosen."

Didn't see that coming. Way to politicize her dying. You are pathetic. Blaming President Trump. FOAD

[Maverick1987]

Prayers to that family...

Tanuki probably pulled something with that stretch. 

And what a missed thread title opportunity...

"Donald Trump killed my Goddaughter

[Vagabond]

I can understand him being upset.  No one likes to see a kid die.  That said, DUmmies seem to think that throwing all the money in the world at a problem will magically solve it, and it just won't.  There are other diseases that kill more kids and other diseases that are easier to develop cures for based on our current level of medical science, so that is where the money goes for now, and maybe some new treatment for something else will help with this. 

What is ironic is that DUmmies love to bellyache over the costs of medicine while never admitting that much of the "excess" cost is being funneled back into medical research.

[Bad Dog]

The DUmmie's great god o'bummer gave them the solution for this type of problem.  Give the child a "pill" and save the collective the excessive cost of it's medical needs.

[USA4ME]

A child diagnosed with DIPG today faces the same prognosis as a child diagnosed 40 years ago. There is still no effective treatment and no chance of survival. Only 10% of children with DIPG survive for 2 years following their diagnosis, and less than 1% survive for 5 years.   The median survival time is 9 months from diagnosis.

https://www.defeatdipg.org/dipg-facts/overview/what-is-the-prognosis-for-a-child-diagnosed-with-dipg/

Blaming Trump doesn't change the facts. Might as well be angry at Obama for him not doubling the money going to research over the 8 years he was in office. Of course these nuts would claim he would have liked to but the R's prevented it. When you're as crazy as they are, you believe whatever fits your agenda.

I have sympathy for the child. The Taniki primitive has an attitude that is unhealthy for anyone to be around, especially a child.

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