Earlier this year, my supervisor's brother-in-law was diagnosed as having esophageal cancer. When considering different treatments, I piped up and told my supervisor about a clinic that my doctor refers all of his cancer patients to.
Over the years, my doctor has sent over 300 patients to a specialty clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. A lot of these patients had pretty grim prognoses. Out of those three hundred plus people, only one ever died. Almost all of the others made full and amazing recoveries. That's a pretty good track record, I think.
The brother-in-law chose the route of traditional medicine... surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
He had over half of his esophagus removed, and his stomach relocated into his upper chest cavity, near the shoulder (I can't even imagine how wierd that must be). After about six weeks of recovering from the surgery, and following his regiment of radiation and chemo, they discover a tumor on his spine.
The doctor surgically removes most of the tumor on his spine, saying that things looked pretty good down there. That was a week ago.
This morning came the grim news that the cancer has spread to his lungs and his liver. This man does not have long to live...
He's roughly 35 years old, and has five children, one of them a newborn.
And now...
We found out last weekend that one of our best friends has stage 3 breast cancer, five months into her pregnancy. In talking with her husband, I pleaded "Please, just look into this clinic in Mexico... just at least give it some consideration..."
What they choose to do remains to be seen...
My question to you is: What would you do in this situation?
Is the idea of holistic health so far outside of people's rational thinking, that even with a better than 99% success rate, it is turned down in favor of a known path of pain and sickness?
Just wondering out loud...
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