Hail Gail :) >From my experience regarding the doctors I've met up with over the years in >dealing with any health crisis whether for myself or my family........the >large majority of doctors either do not look past their sacred medical >journals or are so enshrined in their positions of patient superiority that >they are psychotically incapable and psychologically impaired from offering >hope or any sense of self empowerment to their patients.
RE the Vitamin C - I ignored the majority of their recommendations I felt went against my intuition, what my body was telling me and in some cases what alternative medicine found diametrically opposed to good health. My own conclusions were that lifestyle lived as usual is contradictory to the illness that was brought forth from the physical manifestation of the disease. When one gets sick........its time to listen closely too and hone that God given intuition called the inner physician. Visualization is and has been recently shown to be critical in dealing with Cancer or any other illness for that matter. The individual owns the Cancer, to state the obvious, their bodies are replicating renegade cells. I realized how ignorant and afraid I was of Cancer.I knew only that it was considered to be fatal and often beyond ones personal control. With great certainty I say...not so. One of the first books that gave me clarity and greater understanding of the extent of ones "personal" power was an extremely inspiring book by Bernie Segal, Love, Medicine and Miracles. If I was cantankerous and distrustful of and in dealing with Doctors before I became sick, I became a doctors worse nightmare when I was done with the book. To the extent that the NIH booted me out of their study after 11 months of flying back and forth 2x a month. For not being complacent, compliant and submissive to their guinea pig protocol which I quickly realized was not entirely for my benefit as an individual. I was also according to them "upsetting" other patients by inquiring as to what or whether they knew what kind of drugs they were taking. 9 out of 10 didn't. They just sat there in a dazed state with their IV's as if they were already dead. That state of mind, imho is scarier than the diagnosis..it is in and of itself, an individual illness. The medical records I left with were rife with notes from the charge nurses suggesting I be given psychiatric help. They claimed I was over anxious, too curious regarding treatment drugs and distrustful of caretakers and doctors. Never once during my years stint with them did they, whether written or oral give constructive advice/consultation about alternative nutritional supplementation or life style factors that would affect the outcome towards a more positive prognosis. If I mentioned Macrobiotic diet, Vitamin C, plant /herbals I was utilizing they just gave an insignificant poo poo shrug of dismissal. Most, if not all Cancer treatment protocols in this country originate from the NIH (National Institutes of Health). Same with AIDS, HIV and numerous diseases. Chemo causes havoc and chaos within the body and by its very nature, brutal and insulting. It robs the body of critical nutrients and significantly weakens the immune system to the extent that reoccurances are so common. All I can say about the medical systems mentality is that Cancer is BIG business in this country. It is a very potent, viable contributor to the medical communities and drug companies economic longevity. Chemo is as widely distributed as Aspartame, Fluoride and mercury laden vaccinations and as we know, ignorance is bliss so long as there is not public outcry and condemnation. The day will come when Chemo will be a thing of the archaic past and energy based medicine wisely combined with the healing of the mind and spirit will eventually become the medicine of the future. Western science is so undeveloped and backward in certain areas that they are just now making a connection that ancient cultures knew of for eons. For the time being, doctors of Allopathic persuasion will continue to refuse to take a back seat to the driver.....which is essentially, the patient. Gail Naranjo <wanda85...@yahoo.com> wrote: But about vitamin C, they (doctors) made her stop taking any antioxidants as they said it interfered with the chemo while she was having chemo. I told her about you and how you never did reach bowel tolerance. She said (something I didn't know) that chemo will constipate one so it would be difficult to reach bowel tolerance. Glad your still kicking, lady. And what a lovely lick you have! Gail Regards, Carol Ann ~ and the bush was consumed.........Exodus 3:2 Reign of The Mayberry Machiavellis ends in 2008. --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.