When my grandmother was found to have cancer similar statistics were used to convince her to spart expensive chemo and radiation therapy. They said without the treatment she would be dead within a year. Instead she died in two months from the treatment. Doctors don’t know it all. The last time I checked freedom meant that the individual has the right to go against even the do gooders.
Doctors don’t know it all. The last time I checked freedom meant that the individual has the right to go against even the do gooders.
Well said. Sometimes it’s a little scary reading the replies on this board. One would think this is a site for FREEDOM-loving, independent people, but the opposite is often revealed. Many expose themselves to be nothing but intolerant statists that worship science and ‘the authorities’ above all else. Science and mdicine should be there to help those who want it, beleive it will help them and will undergo it of their own free will. Having government (however well-meaning) force treatments and drugs upon people against their will sets up a nightmarish scenario in which everyone will find themselves in soon enough, once universal health care sets in.
I see children die with cancer. The treatment is brutal and extremely painful. All the cells in the body have to be killed by chemotherapy. Their immune systems are non-exhistant. the children cry from suffering the constant needles into their little bodies. When in treatment, they are so fragile they can not go to school or visit with friends. Some families are torn apart because of the constant care and stress involved. But, the thing that hurts me most is the extreme pain they go through for months and years - some, after all the treatment and pain, finally die, leaving their parents devastated. I wonder sometimes whether the doctors prolong the inevitable. I know every life is precious. Sometimes the children come to a point that they are ready to die - some know the exact time, some see angels or family members and are ready to go. I could go on and on without giving an answer to you or myself. God put on my heart, when I was asking why when a child died I was close to and he said - I heal in two ways, here on earth and in heaven. Than is my comfort. I pray for the little one, knowing either way, he will be healed. Sorry for the length of my response.
Couldn’t agree more. By any definition, chemo is poison. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Like you, I’ve lost two close relatives to “treatable” cancer via chemotherapy. It’s no more reliable than birch-bark and probably a lot less reliable than apricot pits—neither of which produces the nearly intolerable side-effects of even a single dose of chemo.
And use peyote, right?