Fine Line

There is a fine line between trying to educate people and preaching to them. I guess what I want to do most is educated people about facts I have found and facts that people with cancer bring to me. I feel if I educate or talk about what facts I have found, that people will respect what I bring to them and they can make up their own minds. If I preach, then I have lost the message I am trying to tell, CHOICE. Choice in how you and your body react to a disease such as cancer. I know that I am very different than most people I talk to and would never want one of them telling me what I should or should not do. Again, that is my choice. So, if I am excited and tell you about a new report or possible medicine or facts I find, take it with the intention it was given, to inform and let you have more information to make your choice.

I am quite disturbed with what the doctors are doing with my mothers friend who has cancer. Six weeks ago before going on vacation his doctor informed him that there was nothing else they could do for him. He is in the final stage of cancer and they just let him know that the chemo is not working. Now, six weeks later after returning from a long vacation, his doctor wants to start his chemo again. Alternative medicines are looked down upon by his doctor who told him that he would run the risk of being poisoned or have drugs that were not manufactured in the US. Problem is, when he started chemo they gave him some symptoms that he may have, and if he did, get to the emergency room as he was being poisoned. So what is the difference? Further, the US manufactured medicines is the only thing ACS and FDA recommends as the others may be tainted. We just had over 90 people die from a US medicine firm that has their medicines manufactured in China at a fraction of the cost to be made in the US, yet the FDA approves this medicine as US made.

I am quite certain that until the general public really takes a strong look at what we are getting for the $2 trillion dollars we are spending on medicine and doctors that we will continue on with high cancer rates and other diseases. There is a lot more money in treating them than finding a cure or prevention and until that changes, we all a in a paradigm on health care spending vs. results.

Again, not to preach, but to give you my opinion based on the things that I have observed and read.