Q: what feared deadly disease comes with its own zodiac sign?
A: why, cancer of course.
Well, one of my worst fears has come through. I have cancer.
How did this happen?
For over a year I had this smelly liquid discharge coming out of me. It took 3 visits to different doctors just to get diagnosed. The first 2 said nothing’s wrong, just go home. But the 3rd finally said, let’s do some tests.
The tests confirmed I had contracted a case of HPV. Now, HPV by itself is nothing to get alarmed about — it has to be treated, of course, but unless there are complications, it’s just an inconvienience. So I got myself referred to a hospital and they scheduled me for surgery.
Afterwards, my doctors confirmed the HPV was cured, but the virus triggered a cancer tumor which became my next problem.
It seems part of the reason I got cancer was because I was so slow in getting the HPV handled. But if there was a need to be quick about it, why didn’t anyone tell me this before? Really! Sometimes I wonder if they deliberately set me up to get cancer, because treating cancer patients can be very profitable.
An educated consumer
I decided to become an educated consumer on the subject. I bought a a stack of books on the subject, and read them. In particular, I recommend this one. I’m no expert, but eventually I got to the point where I knew more than some of the “professonals” I was talking to.
Different ways of approaching the problem
Cancer therapy is divided into 2 camps — the first is the conventional/orthodox camp, which consists mainly of surgery (to remove tumors), radiation, and chemotherapy. I suppose surgery has its uses, but I’ve never felt comfortable with the other two, which amount to poisoning the body in order to save it. They scheduled me for (conventional) cancer treatments in the hospital.
Radiation comes out of a machine which focuses a beam in the direction of the tumor, and the machine itself rotates so the tumor is aimed at from various angles. This helps keep the attack focused on the tumor, but is not perfect, as much of the healthy tissue surrounding it gets (literally) nuked as well.
And just what occurs inside your body? I don’t have a definitive answer, but the YouTube video The Hanoi Incident showcases what happened to a Vietnamese scientist when he accidentally put his hands in an energetic particle stream, not realizing the machine had been turned on already. It took a few days for the damage to show itself, but his hands looked like they were barbecued. He eventually lost them.
In the video, they showed a floor plan of the research facility. The radiation room was surrounded by thick concrete walls, so the workers could retreat to safety. (They called the walls, room, and corridors a “maze”.) So one day, as I was wandering around the cancer clinic (which I’ve nicknamed “the dragon’s lair”.) I saw a sign on the wall showing the location of the nearby emergency exits, and there, on it, was a maze that looked a lot like the one in the video! That did not make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. (During a treatment the staff retreats to a safe area in the back. If I ever have another radiation treatment, I want to go back into the safe area with them before the machine is turned on!)
Even worse than radiation is chemotherapy. The chemicals used are very toxic, and while radiation is poorly focused on the area where it’s intended, chemotherapy is not focused at all. The chemical just diffuses throughout the entire body. It is unapologetically a poison, attacking both healthy and diseased cells at the same time.
Demands by installments
And they had a sneaky way of getting me to consent to all of this. They broke their consent process into 6 steps as follows:
- ◆ You need 4 weeks of radiation therapy, but chemotherapy is optional
- ◆ If you have chemo, and have side effects, you can stop the chemo
- ◆ You need chemo because it makes the radiation more effective
- ◆ After the radiation therapy, you have to have brachytherapy too
- ◆ We’ll offset chemo’s side effects with additional medications
- ◆ Did I say 4 weeks of radiation? — you need 5 weeks
They had me agree to the first step, and when I did, they soon followed with the next. Then they proceeded as far as they could. (This is called “making demands by installments” and was used during the World War 2 era. I won’t say who said this, but he had a mustache.) I am not comfortable with this sort of slow escalation.
Not coming back
Then there were the side effects, like my bladder hardening up and making peeing difficult. But the worst side effect was the way the staff treated me — when one of the treatments was finished, they swarmed all over me, helping me to stand up and get dressed, as if I were an invalid. This made me think that all their patients are invalids, or will be when they’ve completed their program.
Bottom line: after 3 radiations and 1 chemotherapy, I decided I had enough and told them I wouldn’t be coming back.
My boyfriend and my cousin both tried to get me to reverse my decision and beg to be let back in. (My cousin even advised me to get my affairs in order!) Maybe the clinic thought I would slowly get worse over time until I came back in desperation. I don’t think so.
Incurable?
It sometimes happens that orthodox practitioners can’t eliminate the cancer, and will tell the patient it’s incurable. But maybe this is not the right thing to say — maybe a better thing to say is I/we can’t cure this cancer. But maybe somebody else can! All the graduates of the big medical schools know only the orthodox approach, because that’s all the big medical schools teach.
So what can I do now?
What can I do instead? If I’m giving up on the first camp (conventional/orthodox therapy), that leaves the second camp (alternative/naturopathic therapy) instead. The names imply “conventional” is the proven approach, and “alternative” is uncertain and “other”. But I don’t see it that way. I consider the Old Testament and the New Testament to be parts 1 and 2 of the Bible, but its not like New replaces or supercedes Old. More on my alternative journey in a future article.
