Ok... Honest.
From one cancer warrior to another... do all the options on this 31 Day Challenge sort of make your head spin?
{Me too...}
Not only are we talking about the option of alternative cancer treatments as opposed to traditional, conventional methods. We are also opening up a whole new world of natural, non-toxic cancer therapies... with lots of options!
So, what might be best for your specific journey? Your particular cancer?
Should you try the Gerson Therapy? What about Chemotherapy? Or perhaps the Hoxsey Formula?
Maybe it should be the Cellect-Budwig Diet... Then again, what about radiation, or even surgery?
Too often on this cancer journey we are torn by recommendations, urgent and dire, that cause panic and debilitating stress in the midst of an already nightmarish situation...
What if we could combine the best of both worlds? Not have to choose one over the other? But instead be treated as an individual, integrating many of today's top cancer therapies, both conventional and alternative.
I wish I could tell you that place existed.
The cancer world is still very divided... between conventional, traditional treatments and alternative, natural therapies...
Each camp paints the other with an ugly brush.
The conventional wisdom would have us believe that all alternative doctors are quacks and can't be trusted.
The alternative holistics would have us believe that conventional doctors are in Big Pharma's pockets and, likewise, can't be trusted.
Who do you believe? Making my head spin I tell ya...
It would seem that it is very much up to the patient to make the overwhelmingly difficult choice of a primary course of treatment.
But the tide is gradually turning and The Truth About Cancer documentary has resonated for many.
This would be my very humble take on the world of integrative medicine... it is a powerful, potentially revolutionary force in the cancer world.
And here's why I believe that so strongly. When mom was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her symptoms were pronounced and urgent... the mass on her pancreas had grown large enough to press in on her bile duct and pancreatic duct, effectively closing them off, trapping bile and digestive enzymes.
The pain was intense, and the jaundice was terribly alarming. Doctors performed an ERCP (surgical procedure under anesthesia) and inserted stents (small plastic tubes) to open the ducts and keep them open.
Mom's physical relief was almost instant. Even as our emotional world was collapsing with the news of her cancer diagnosis.
Her cancer treatment consisted of conventional treatments, chemotherapy and radiation. It was a year-long study in how not to battle pancreatic cancer... the nausea, vomiting, weight-loss, abdominal pain, complications... all signals that we were losing the fight, inch by excruciating inch.
So...in a nutshell, mom benefited immediately from conventional surgery to open her bile and pancreatic ducts... We believe she would have died if not for that life-saving surgery.
The truth is, however, that she did die of the cancer, while receiving the very best conventional treatments available to her doctors.
Mom's story is not unique... pancreatic cancer treatments just have not been able to breach the wall. Too many precious ones are losing the fight.
Yet, there are some pancreatic cancer survivors... Kathryn Hahn, Felicity Corbin Wheeler, Pamela Kelsey... all using alternative, natural therapies.
Perhaps that is why The Truth About Cancer and this 31 Day Challenge have kept me up at nights... What if mom had tried one of these therapies?
Could she have survived while integrating the best of both worlds? Surgery, yes... the stents saved her life... the Gerson therapy, or perhaps the Cellect-Budwig treatment to fight the cancer instead of the chemo? Perhaps...
Integrative Medicine...the best of both worlds... there is a Hope that pulls on our hearts... for each cancer warrior tonight, fighting when the news is grim, when their bodies are weak, when they just want to give up...
Holding you close in my prayers, knowing that Grace will be sufficient for every moment of the journey, don't give up...
Shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, journeying together,
Always,
Jane
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