Other lines I wouldn’t cross were pap smears and mammograms, figuring that such invasions would likely just stir up any abnormal cells in the vicinity and be more prone to trigger cancer than help me prevent it.
I don’t mistrust holistic doctors and alternative non-drug modalities, though, just to be clear... that so many alt docs have died under suspicious or mysterious circumstances tells me they were doing something right. Not to mention the common-sense approach to the body as a whole rather than a collection of random parts, and the many positive testimonials of actual healing as opposed to bandaid fixes.
And yes, a lot of friends and relatives think I’m weird, and that’s perfectly okay.
Seconded! I’m all good with being weird if that’s the definition of not having corporate hotdog water (hat tip to the freeper-coiner, forgot whom) injected into me...
I get my mammograms, but Wednesday is my last exam at the OB/GYN. No more.
The only relative I know of that has ever had cancer was my great-grandmother. No other cancers in my family except for skin cancers. I get a skin check twice a year. I know that not all cancer is hereditary, but we have always been cancer free. I’m at the age now that I’m not that worried about it.