Don't Believe the Hype

I have always said that this is my blog. This is my online journal where I let it all hang out, so to speak. This is where I use my voice for good as well as evil. I have also said that I don't care if you agree with me. I really don't. You don't like what I write, read something else. I have not been completely honest. I have avoided certain subjects because I didn't want to offend some people that are very important to me, namely my family. But this has been weighing on my mind. Since I'm leaving soon to go visit said family, I guess I better get this off my chest so I don't explode while I'm there. That never ends well. That would lead to me packing up three kids and heading back east. And lots of hurt feelings. That part sucks. So here goes.

My mom has breast cancer. It is Stage 4, inoperable and has metasticized to her bones. She had a lumpectomy and removal of several lymph nodes. That's when they found the rest of it. The diagnosis has never scared me. It may have upset me, but I have never been scared that the cancer would kill her. I would have loved to go to her doctors appointments with her to question the doctor. I would have loved to turn the doc upside down and inside out to see how my mom was going to be treated and why. I know several people that have inoperable cancer (which just means that you can't operate. I mean, what are you supposed to do, go in and scrape every bone in her body?) and have lived with it for over 20 years. The disease has not progressed. Many of them have seen a regression of the cancer. Why?

Proper nutrition and no chemo or radiation. A recent study suggests that more people die from the effects of the chemo and radiation than the cancer it treats. Chemo is no more than poison. Some chemos given to children contain components of DDT. Do you remember DDT? It was dropped into the jungles of Vietnam during that war and used as a pesticide. It has been banned by the federal government due to it's toxicity. But they are making chemo drugs for children with parts of it. Most of the chemo drugs out there cause cancer themselves. The side effects are hair loss, loss of appetite, leukemia, and death. Death? I thought the side effects of diarrhea and constipation were a turn off. Malnutrition was the number one killer of chemo patients for many years. Radiation for some cancers leave you scarred and burned for life. It also tears down all the good, healthy cells along with the cancer cells. What happens when you don't have good healthy cells? Um, death? Yes! Why would anyone knowingly put themselves through that?

Because when you hear the word cancer, you freak out. When it's you it's directed at, you really lose your mind. I cannot blame anyone for that. The doctor is not God. Only God knows when our time is up. It's not written in stone and given to us when we're born. We don't have an expiration date etched into the bottom of our foot with a lot number. Important questions need to be asked. Did your doctor say "cure" or did he say "containment". When the doctor spouts quality of life bullshit, does the doctor mean your's or her's? Is there a chance that the cancer can come back, bigger, badder, stronger because of the damage you are doing to do to my body? Are you going to treat me holistically or do you give a shit about my overall well being?

Your body is a temple. Treat it right, feed it right and this disease can be gone, and yes, even cured. With the proper treatment, instead of poisons pumped into your body, you can outlive and overcome anything thrown your way. Most doctors do not care or give a crap about nutrition when it comes to cancer patients. If they did, they would be out of a job in most cases. I can't remember where I found the article, but I'm looking for it so I can link it, about a doctor that sued a patient because the patient left his practice, sought alternative therapy, and was cured. The doctor sued for several hundred thousand dollars, the exact amount he would have made had the patient undergone the prescribed treatment. He lost, thankfully.

There is so much good, quality, solid information about heat therapy instead of chemo. There is so much good, quality, solid information about nutrition. There is so much good, quality, solid information about antineoplastin therapy. But all of this is ignored, controlled, and even contained. And for the record, the Susan G. Komen Foundation is not about finding a cure. It's about informing people about breast cancer. Guess what? We know it's there. Find a proper cure that doesn't kill people. Fund research and development of therapies that are helpful and healthful.

I have always said that you need to do your own research. I have never compromised about that. I am very vocal about that issue. Do your research with an open mind. Closed minds equals closed lives.

I never worried about the cancer diagnosis. That, I could fix. The chemo, that's a more difficult problem. That will take longer than I have time to spend with my mom. I have sent several emails to her and my sister, but have never gotten a response from them. Did they read them? I don't know. I would like to think that they did. I hope they did. I hope they read this with an open mind and know that I want my mom to live many more years. She has two daughters that love her to the moon and back and a thousand times more than that. She has seven grandkids that think she hung that moon just for them. And I hope that I'm still welcome to visit after this blog. This is one of the hardest I have ever written, knowing that it will upset people that I love more than my own life. 

I'm getting down from my soapbox now. For a minute. Wait til I get started about flouride!