I just read a very interesting article, but I suggest you look it up real quick because I have a feeling someone is going to take it down. I can give you the link to it, but for some reason it doesn't work so what you have to do is type the entire title into your search bar, then hit on the link when it comes up. The link is http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2010/transparent-medical-devices.html, but what you need to type into your search bar is the title, which is: 'Killed By Code' Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices This article is pretty scarey. It says that although there is yet to be a documented incident in which a source code for a medical device was breached for malicious purposes, a 2008 study done by software engineer and security expert Kevin Fu proved that it is possible to interfere with an ICD that has passed the FDA's premarket approval process and been implanted in hundreds of thousands of patients. Not only were these researchers able to first disable these devices, but they were then able to send multiple shocks averaging 137.7 volts that would induce ventricular fibrillation in a patient. Fu's findings showed that almost anyone could use store-bought ingredients to build a device that could easily be carried into a busy shopping mall or a subway, sending its' heart-attack command to random victims. Like I said, for some reason you have to type the entire article heading into your search bar to pull the article up, but trust me, it's worth reading.
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Please pray for judy
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Thankyou so much. There are already several members of my family who already have a Greenfield Filter, me included, and quite honestly, with my family history of blood clots, I just don't know why they didn't go ahead and put one in while she was in the hospital for all that time. There are just so many things that have happened to her that could have been avoided if someone was just paying a little more attention. I have absolutely no medical training, and yet it was I, NOT her doctors who made the connection to her sudden 'psychosis' and the Vns device. It is written all over their data that it is a possible side effect and she was never diagnosed with it before, so why couldn't they just have put two and two together and figure it out themselves? My sister lost over a year of her life, is disabled now for the rest of it, and her young daughter is scarred for life with what she had to witness. That's pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Nancy , I am familiar with that article That was one of the reasons Dick Cheney
was under lock and key a lot because of his Pacemaker.
The understanding was something as small as a Cell phone could have change the code and there would be no way to turn it back
was under lock and key a lot because of his Pacemaker.
The understanding was something as small as a Cell phone could have change the code and there would be no way to turn it back
Sandi, I just happened to stumble upon that article this morning while doing some research, and let me tell you something, that really scares me. Do I have a device implanted? No. But, how do we know if they haven't figured out how to send sublimal messages through these devices and are creating killing machines out of some of us? I know it sounds a little far-fetched, but if you would have asked me 15 years ago if I thought a terrorist attack like the one we had on 9/11 was feesible I would have said no. If they could pull something like that off, I wouldn't put anything past them.
becool, you are a sweetheart. Thankyou for saying that. I only wish that if it had to happen to somebody that it could have been me instead. I am the older sister and I'm suppossed to protect her, and I couldn't. I wasn't even told about the surgery untill after she had it, which really surprised me because up untill she had the surgery we used to talk on the phone every single day. The day I found out about the surgery was when I was talking to her on the phone, which we did several times a week, and we always ended our phone calls with her saying 'I love you sis!' Then I'd say 'I love you more!' We'd go back and forth screaming 'I love YOU more' into the phone untill one of us was sure we were the last one to say it and hang up. After she had her surgery, I went to say goodbye to her on the phone, and I said 'I love you, sis!' and expected her to yell back 'I love you more!', but instead she just said, 'Well, okay, goodbye' Now THAT hurt. It was then that I realized she was not the same person.
Good morning, Fizzia! What exactly do you mean by a supplement? Do you mean like some kind of vitamin thing? I just wish she could find something that works for her so she could try to pick up the pieces of her life and go on, you know? That poor girl has been through so much, and she really deserves a break. Her little girl could use a little peace. If you knew my sister, you would understand why this has me so confused. She has always been so level headed and grounded and then she gets this 'device' implanted and her entire world falls apart. For the life of me, I cannot understand how it got approved. I have studied the approval orders, studied the court transcripts, studied the Conditions of Approval and the warning letters they have recieved, and I do not know why they have not been sanctioned for withholding information, not reporting deaths, etc. What exactly is it about this company that has the FDA quivering in their boots?