The Road Less Traveled

After I got my pizza craving off my chest via blogging, I went straight to bed. Well, as straight as I can go to bed with all the therapies I am doing. I don’t remember if it was in bed or my salt bath, but I recollected, “How did I give up Christmas sweets and treats and rich traditional foods so easily? Oh yes...it’s a choice. I can choose low glycemic foods and starve the cancer to death. Go the natural route and save not only my breasts but also my body. Or I can feed the cancer with sugary Christmas treats and go the traditional mastectomy and radiation route. My breasts trump sugar every time. They also trump pizza. I chose this road less traveled; it’s not an easy road. But it is a road I believe makes much sense.

Along with my personal research on Alzheimer’s because of my mother and my own almost debilitating brain fog about ten years ago, I have also found and researched much about cancer. Fifty percent of Americans will get cancer in their lifetime. I prefer to walk into situations with my eyes wide open and educated. When my radiology doctor at my first cancer treatment center told me to go home over the weekend, rest and stay off the internet, I knew that was my first clue. What are they hiding? I was trying to give the allopathic path a chance. Which, don’t get me wrong, allopathic medicine is fantastic for many, many things like trauma, surgeries, and high tech equipment. And I greatly respect and admire my family practitioner. Diseases however, often become symptom management, placing people on forever drugs instead of getting to the source. It’s our broken system, not people. Even with cancerous tumors, let’s figure out why my body made the cancer in the first place, thank it for encapsulating the cells that went awry, and support my body in the healing process instead of sending in a nuclear bomb squad to destroy my entire body.

That’s my viewpoint currently. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I will change my mind later. And I will support others in choosing whichever path is best for them. But as for me, you will not find me participating in any Susan B. Komen events, a non-for-profit organization whose president makes over $600,000 a year, the CEO makes over $500,000. That’s not how non-for-profits work. One of their biggest supporters is GE who makes the very mammogram machines their pink campaign advertises for early detection. That’s not how non-for-profits work.

I teach my students to research and problem solving. I don’t want them or anyone to be zombies believing everything media, pop culture, big pharma sends their way. There’s more than one way to solve problems. “For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me (wisdom) will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.” Proverbs 1:32 & 33 Please seek wisdom; do your research. Our bodies are temples, fearfully and wonderfully made. I am hoping to get more resources and information for inquiring minds as my strength allows. I’ve had lots of personal questions sent my way. I’m more than willing to share what I’ve learned to help others. Again, I am not trying to offend anyone. This is just where I am right now after much reading and research. I despise feeling trapped, without options and watching others feel the same. I despise being at cancer center cafeterias packed full of sugar and glucose laden food and watching cancer patients eat it. Unknowingly to them they are feeding the very cancer they are trying to fight. And no medical professionals tell them. Heartbreaking.