If you've ever been to a T-ball game you know the score, especially for the first few games of the year. The tiny players have no clue. When a batter hits the ball, he might run to third instead of first. Or a lucky player may catch a ball, but then in the excitement of the catch, forget to throw it to first.
In this particular play, the coach watched with disbelief as a ball was hit and rolled past every player out to the fence. Several players began running after it, and in the process reached the ball at the same time and began fighting over it. At his wit's end, the coach hollered from the side line, "Same team! Same team!" The players spun and looked at him. Then one gave up the struggle while the other threw the ball into second base.
That one-liner speaks volumes. Not just for T-ball players, but for everyone playing in the game of life.
Same team! Same team!
If one cancer patient decides on traditional medical treatment and another decides on alternative care, the bottom line is that we're all on the Same Team.
Striving to find wholeness and healing.
Judgemental opinions, devisive posturing, and critical ranting do nothing but hurt the cause. We are, after all, on the Same Team...
Mom chose to walk the traditional treatment road using Gemzar as her mainstay treatment, but there are other chemos being used in this fight as well as surgeries and radiation therapies. And then there are others that may choose a more holistic approach, alternative and natural. We will talk more about these therapies too in the coming days.
I believe we can all learn from each other's experiences...it is the heart of this website... to share, to listen, to be encouraged, to hope, to learn... some where out there lies the cure for this abominable cancer. What if the cure is found in alternative therapies? What if the answer is in a yet to be tried chemotherapy? Hanging on to the Hope that someone reading these words will be part of that Victory. It matters little to me whether it be a pharmaceutical chemo drug or an all natural herbal remedy. I will be shouting it from the rooftops!
Several years ago Elizabeth Edwards struggled and lost her fight with breast cancer. In an early interview, she wisely noted that, "The strength to fight the cancer is inside each of us... each one chooses the course that is best for them."
Each cancer journey is truly unique, the nightmare part withstanding. To those struggling with what's right, what course of treatment, or which direction to turn, remember that we are all pulling for your healing. Find the course, the path that is right for you. And never, never, let the critical opinions of others sway you.
May you always find strength in the fact that you are part of a much larger team. A team that is fighting hard for a cure. We are all on the Same Team! One day soon, it will be the Winning Team!
Journeying on in Grace, Always,
Jane
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