alternative therapies

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Hi Everyone,

 

I just want to chime in here with my 2cents. I am a believer in

alternative, holistic medicine.

 

When I was 22 years old, back in 1976, I was diagnosed with a very

serious form of ovarian cancer. I did have surgery and I did take

some chemotherapy, but when the chemo was making me seriously deathly

ill and my doc told me I had a 10% chance of living, I walked out on

it. Having known and heard about others who had what I had and

continued with the full course of chemotherapy until they died, I feel

very blessed that I refused to continue with it and chose alternative

therapies instead. I completely avoided any conventional medicine for

2 years, and then allowed a very conservative internist to give me a

battery of tests. He was planning to have me go back on chemo (which

I would've refused) but he was shocked to find that all the tests were

normal and actually pronounced me " cured. "

 

However, having said that, I will add I'm not the kind of person who

would advocate that path to anyone else. (I am however, eternally

grateful for the people in my life who advocated it to me.) For my

own personal healing process, I consider the use of herbs, essential

oils, homeopathic remedies, bodywork, prayer, etc., to be my

medicines. I rarely visit conventional doctors. And I don't like to

throw my money at pharmaceutical companies.

 

On the other hand, as a massage therapist, I have worked in a cancer

clinic to bring nurturing, healing touch to people who are in major

discomfort. It was never my role to share my experiences with them,

but to support them with comforting touch and also their family

members with chair massage. So I do agree that aromatherapy, like

massage, can play a role in integrative or so-called complementary

medicine, but my own personal choice is for alternative, holistic --

therapies.

 

Lisa

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