I'm starting to develop pretty strong feelings about some of the established practices in treating cancer. I just finished my second round of chemotherapy, and I'm starting to wonder, with Joanna Budwig, whether chemo may do more harm than good. I lost everything I'd gained back by the end of this last round. We're not just talking about feeling sick; we're talking about all-day, projectile vomiting. I lost muscle control. I couldn't walk.
It felt like I was being poisoned. I knew I was being poisoned.
One thing I'm concerned about is that I was instructed to take double the daily dose recommended even by the drug company's own website. I'm taking something called Temodar--a chemo drug that's supposedly very well tolerated. But perhaps not at double the recommended dose! We've been trying to get the doctor to respond to explain what fueled this decision, but he won't answer our calls, and it's been days.
None of this makes me trust the medical establishment very much. Do they just pull things out of the closet and say, "Hey, has anyone tried rat poison yet? Yes? Well, did they try it at double the amount?"
I've always been a devout cynic when it comes to the medical industry's capacity to promote its own wares: its practices, its drugs, its latest discoveries. There's a huge amount of money and reputation invested in these protocols, so they push them. But you don't dare disagree your doctor when you're dealing with something like a brain tumor. You figure you better do exactly what you're told.
I'm going to have to rethink even this one, though. The Joanna Budwig diet was doing more for me all on its own.
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Oh, Laurel, I am sorry that you are so uncomfortable. I, too, am wary of modern medicine, but am equally wary of folk remedy. The former jumps in without benefit of the knowledge of long-term consequence, and the latter all too often gains credence from its longevity of use rather than real usefulness... Occasionally, the former is disproved and the latter proved, but what to do in the mean time?
You will keep doing both, I hope: your yoghurt and your chemo. One to make the cancer feel worse, and one to make you feel better. Would that the yoghurt did both. :/ Can I do anything to help?
YESSS!!!!! MAKE IT GO AWAY!!!!!
(Just kidding. I mean, I'm not kidding at all. Can you make it go away?)
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