If he had listened to his doctors…he would be alive today.
His pancreatic cancer was on the bottom of the pancreas, it hadn’t spread, and was not involved with his lymph nodes. A surgery and ten shitty rounds of chemo and his prognosis for 72 months + was about 70%. If you ever get PC, you WANT the one jobs had.
Instead, he wanted to go “the natural” route. Of course, cancer “naturally” spreads.
I totally understand Job’s thinking. I’d far prefer doing everything naturally.
I take 12 nutritional supplements per day and have every day for the last 50 years. My marvelous, enlightened doctor prescribes them, making them tax deductible. Plus I eat everything organic. Pasture raised eggs and beef qualify.
And then last month I went to the hospital with congestive heart failure and have to take 4 prescription drugs every day. Checked with my own doc, he said “Take them. You’re strong enough to handle them. And also the terrifying “cardioversion” procedure scheduled for next week, which electronically resets your heart rhythm.
We made a promise to meet at the gym where we’re both members (who knew?”) Sunday afternoon after the procedure.
Who in the world is lucky enough to have an MD like this? I really feel blessed. He’s a good Christian too. From Nigeria.
Instead, he wanted to go “the natural” route. Of course, cancer “naturally” spreads.
I have read that he was a "fruitarian." He ate nothing but fruit.
When I first read this, the thought occurred to me that this must have contributed to his getting pancreatic cancer.
I cannot believe a diet of nothing but fruit can be good for your pancreas.
And it was neuroendocrine not adenocarcinoma. One of the rarer but truly curable pancreatic cancers