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May 29, 2009 8:23 pm US/Central
Family: Daniel Hauser Sick After Chemo Treatment
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ―
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Daniel Hauser is shown immediately before returning home. He'd fled Minnesota with his mother while still in the middle of a controversial trial.
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Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old cancer patient whose mother took him on the run from the law to shield him from chemotherapy, is feeling sick after a second round of the treatment his family later agreed to.
The Hauser family reported in a news release Friday that Daniel, who underwent the chemotherapy Thursday at Children's Hospitals and Clinics, spent Friday back at the family's Sleepy Eye home and "is not tolerating the drugs well and has been vomiting all day." Nauseau and vomiting are common side effects of chemotherapy.
"Danny has had a horrible day, he's felt terrible all day long," said Jim Navarro, a Texas man now serving as the family's spokesman. "He's not happy."
Daniel, who has Hodgkin's lymphoma, underwent an initial round of chemotherapy in January but resisted later treatments after reporting bad side effects. The family believe in natural medicine treatments with roots in American Indian healing.
Authorities in southern Minnesota's Brown County convinced a judge to force Daniel into chemotherapy, which prompted Colleen Hauser to skip a court hearing and, with Daniel in tow, go on the run for nearly a week. They headed to southern California, where they considered a trip into Mexico for alternative cancer treatments.
The pair returned early Monday. The family relented to the chemotherapy treatments, and in exchange District Judge John Rodenberg let them keep custody of Daniel.
In a new Web site about the case, the Hausers lay out a version of events with some new details. The site reveals a previously unaired allegation, with the Hausers claiming it was their Mankato-based lawyer, Calvin Johnson, who urged Colleen Hauser to skip the court hearing and go on the run.
"That's out of the mouth of Colleen," Navarro said Friday.
Johnson did not return phone messages left at his office and cell phone seeking comment on the new allegation. Late Thursday, Johnson had notified the press that he no longer would be speaking for the Hauser family.
A different attorney, Susan Daya Hamwi, admitted to purchasing the plane tickets for the pair but said she was reimbursed by the family.
Brown County Attorney James Olson did not return a phone message seeking comment on the allegation against Johnson. He previously said no one else would face criminal charges in the case.
Navarro said despite Daniel's latest side effects, the Hauser family planned to continue consenting to chemotherapy sessions. Doctors say Daniel needs at least four more.
Navarro also said the family planned to stop issuing daily updates on Daniel's health, but that they would still provide new information about his health from time to time.
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One of the quotes on the home page of Daniel Hauser's
Web site says: "You see, I am a medicine man. Some times we teach, and some times we perform. Now, I am doing both. I will lead by example. On my spiritual path, I am also known as a Great Spirit. I have lived many times before. So, 13 years is nothing to me."
(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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