AN
EDUCATION CALLED CANCER
I would like
to open my heart and tell you our story. My hope is that it would in some small
part help bring Western medicine back into its original role, which was for the
purposes of national health care, and what would be even better, that Western
medicine would once again be seen side
by side with naturapathic medicine and healing, supporting one another. The
most important factor in all of this are us, human beings. We make anything possible,
but also the keys to change are in our hands.
I don´t have
any need to badmouth or judge any organization. It would be a lot easier for me
to just say that my husband got cancer and then he died.
However, my
husband´s wish was that people must hear his story, and since he is no longer
here to tell, it is now up to me to share it.
In writing
this, I will focus on different types of cancers, for which medical science has
not invented a treatment that cures.
INTRODUCTION
First I want
to highlight that medical science has invented a tremendous amount of drugs
that help heal. But unfortunately, the pharmaceutical industry has become
controlled by greed, which has in many ways blinded its real purpose, with the
result that the industry has made a huge business out of wellness and illness.
People have recognized this distortion as time has gone by, and now we are
getting to a point where the trust of the public is eroding and people are also
beginning to turn their backs on all the progress, hard work and good
intentions with which the industry may originally have begun.
Increasingly,
the question comes up that here and now, with respect to this particular
illness and this particular drug, is the intention to heal or is the intention
to make money? These questions rise up
when we think, for instance, about the increased use of drugs for high
cholesterol or whether there is an actual need to vaccinate against the flu.
The
pharmaceutical industry has turned against itself in its greed. How much are we people actually encouraged to
take responsibility for our own health, when we go to a doctor´s appointment,
so that we would get nutritional advice, or advice for our general ongoing
lifestyle? How much do they actually try
to figure out the reason for the symptoms we present? How much effort is put into trying to cure
only the symptoms? Even cancer is a
symptom, not a cause. For some reason
the body does not function the way it should.
OUR STORY
Once upon a
time there was a happy young married couple, whose family included two
children. They believed that the only purpose for modern medicine was to
improve peoples’ health; that it had a burning desire with a big heart to
research and discover every possible way to cure difficult diseases. They believed that modern medicine would
rejoice upon finding that someone had been cured despite an earlier death
sentence, and that all effort would be put into figuring out what had brought
about that particular miracle. Our
cancer story began with this trusting and naive attitude towards our health care
system.
MY
HUSBAND’S JOURNEY
My husband
was basically a healthy man; at the age of 36, he did not smoke and used
alcohol only in moderation.
In 2011,
around Christmas time, my husband started to have stomach symptoms. The
symptoms were like heartburn, acid dyspepsia-type of problems, and he described
that his stomach would get full even from small portions of food. He thought that he had a hernia in his upper
abdomen. With non-prescription drugs the symptoms eased, and he did not hurry
to see a doctor.
In April
2012 he suffered from a hard kidney and pelvic inflamation, and at that time I
was on my knees for the first time. You cannot take my love, I shouted and
prayed as I looked up to heaven. We got through that, but the question
remained, what caused the inflammation?
In May he
had a stomach-endoscopy, and also a biopsy-specimen was taken. My husband was
told his diagnosis, and that he had a
malignant stomach-cancer, and he met with an oncologist for the first time.
The day
after my husband got his diagnosis, I went and bought Selenium, because our
friend’s cancer cells had vanished by using Selenium. (She had had a severe
breast cancer-diagnosis, and she had started to take Selenium right away. After three weeks she had an operation, and
there were no cancer cells to be found. The growth now proved to be only
ligament. The same thing had happed to their friend, who had a severe
thyroid-cancer diagnosis).
THE
CHEMOTHERAPY STARTS
We had not
been given any prognosis about my husband’s situation when the chemotherapy
started two weeks after the diagnosis, and we believed that the treatment would
cure him. Chemotherapy was given by intravenous drip every three weeks, plus
3000mg/ day of chemotherapy-tablets for two weeks, and one treatment-free week
before the next drip.
1.
Chemotherapy-period. I was shocked when
my husband got very sick from the first
intravenous drip-treatment. He was vomiting, he couldn´t eat, he was
cold and had painful aches in his arms, problems with urinating and strong
nausea.
I thought
that my love was going to die from these treatments. I asked him, ”Have you not been instructed
how to protect the healthy cells, so that the cell-toxins won´t destroy them?” ”No, they haven´t said anything, exept that
eat whatever you feel like.” He was
given foot-cream to put on his feet, when his skin started to get wounds from
the medication.
With the
chemotherapy came a huge amount of other medications, stomach-protecting
medicine, painkillers, nausea-medicine, medicine for urinary infections,
medicine for diarrhea. Medicine, medicine, medicine, but my husband´s condition
only got worse. That amount of medications for a man who had hardly ever needed
any medicine.
I was so
confused -- what was happening here in the Finnish health care system?
2. During
the chemotherary treatment my husband´s hair started to come out, and he got
worse than ever. Vomiting, he couldn´t eat, constantly getting cold, having
cramps, aches in his hands and feet, urinary problems and strong nausea that lasted
for a week.
A HUGE
HELP FROM A
DIET AND NATURAL
NUTRITION
We did not
understand enough to demand a precise diagnosis from the doctors, and we
thought that knowing about a malignant cancer was enough. We found out the exact diagnosis one and a
half months after the biopsy was taken, and when the statement for the bank
came in the mail. My husband had not
seen the the doctor after his first visit to him.
We found
some information from the Internet, about
diffuse-type cancer and its
prognosis,
and it was a hard thing to read. Medical
science has not been able to come up with a cure, if surgery is not
possible. Chemotherapy can only buy the
patient some time, but what is the quality of that time?
So we
started to research information about naturopathic patient care. We got some
personal assistence from an expert in functional medical science, Elonvalo ky,
regarding diets, safe and correct
nutritional supplementary products, as well as about one´s emotional
mindset and wellbeing in the healing process.
A program
for the ”eviction” of the cancer started.
My husband started to take oil-based Vitamin -D 300 microg/day, Selenium
was increased to 200microg/day, Magnesium sitrat 400microg/day probiotic milklactic-acid, Artic Nutrition
spirulinas, Omega, Noni-juice and berry elixir.
We changed
our diet so that it wouldn´t give the cancer the power to survive. We were
advised also that sugar is the most
important growth material for cancer, so we got rid of the fast-sorbin sugars,
Finnish white wheat, milk (only unflavoured sour dairy products), all
convenience food , all food that is contrary to nature, red meat to minimum, so
that the diet is as natural as it can be. We added a lot of cold-pressed oil,
butter, berries, fruit and vegetables.
The medical
system gave no guidance in this kind of an essential way of nourishing the body
-- and I can only ask, why?
When my
husband started to follow the new nourishment guidelines, his hair stopped
falling out. His tolerance was better
with the third and fourth chemotherapy treatments, and we were able to enjoy
many good days and trips over the summer.
My husband´s condition started getting better and his weight increased
by 10 kg, almost to his regular weight. His stomach symptoms were all gone. He
did not suffer from skin or mucous damage, which usually inevitably follows
chemotherapy treatments. We started to be hopeful again, thinking that the
cancer had been conquered.
When the
fifth and sixth chemotherapy treatment periods started, my husband experienced
fierce cramps in his pancreas and liver area.
I tried to alert my husband, thinking that the symptoms were caused by
the chemotherapy treatments, because on each treatment-free week he did not
suffer from these symptoms. But he had been intimidated by the system,
believing that he could not proceed without the chemotherapy. The symptoms eased in a couple of days. My husband was still mildly nauseous, and had
those symptoms during the chemotherapy treatments, but they were nothing
compared to what he had suffered in the beginning, before embarking on his new
diet, and he was able to eat well.
DEATH
PENALTY
In August 28th
2012 my husband met the oncologist for the second time during his illness. The
doctor hit him with the following statement:
this cancer is not curable, it cannot disappear without surgery, and it
is very childish to think that it
would. According to this doctor. the
cancer cells could not disappear without
surgery.
My husband
was in a very good condition and we were very puzzled. How could it be explained that the stomach
symptoms had disappeared, with which everything had started? Could they not do an endoscopy again to see
if anything could still be detected?
The doctor
continued: It is no use to examine it again, since cancer has once already been
discovered. Now the chemotherapy had to
be continued as far as the body could take it. In any case, it was impossible
to proceed without chemotherapy, unless you waned to die faster. On the same breath, the doctor started to
explain how chemotherapy destroys the organs, the
veins and one´s heart, etc. In the end there is only painkillers and he
suggested that we should prepare ourselves for palliative care.
We told the
doctor about how we had been enormously helped by our new diet and
supplementary nutrients. The doctor´s reaction to this was very strong: he said
that we should not use them under any circumstances, and asked who had advised
us to do so. Also, he added that if we did
use something, it should only be bought from the pharmacy. But in any case,
supplementary nutrients were not recommended. It did not matter how my husband
felt on the diet.
My husband
was beaten after that appointment. He
appeared as if he had been hit by a log and then sent home. All his hard work had been wiped away in the
blink of an eye.
A VISIT
TO THE DOCRATES CANCER CLINIC
At the
beginning of September we went to get a second opinion, from the private cancer
clinic Docrates, and they were incredulous about our previous doctor´s appointment
and about what we had been told. They
believed that a special diet and extra nutrients were a good thing. The cancer
doctor at the Docrates Clinic did not see it as sensible to continue with the
chemotherapy, because of the growing permanent damage within the body, and
since, after all, my husband´s condition was the best indicator of his health,
and he was feeling fine. We had with us the same documents we had on August 28th
2012.
After that
visit we went to another doctor in our hospital and he agreed on a new
endoscopy. There were no growths in the
stomach, and the test results were clean. The cancer was gone from the stomach,
the disappearance for which the medical profession had no answers. It was not supposed
to be possible for it to disappear without surgery.
THE
FOLLOW-UP AND PANCREAS AND GALLBLADDER PROBLEMS
My husband
subjected himself to no further chemotherapy drip treatments, despite the
strong pressure directed at him by the medical professionals. However, he decided to continue with
chemotherapy-tablets (3000mg/day). He believed that they would not do too much
damage and that he could stop taking
them at some point in the future.
Before he
started to take the tablets again in September he had a period without
treatments and he was feeling great, as if in the best condition of his life.
We were at our summer cottage,
he went duck-hunting, and walked all over amidst the river banks and reeds. He
ate very well and there were no stomach symptoms whatsoever. We had a fantastic week.
Next week he
started eating the tablets (3000 mg/day), and again came the pancreas and
gallbladder cramps. I tried to alert him to my suspicion that the cramps were
caused by the cell-toxins, because last week there were no problems in that
general region of his body. My husband did not want to believe this and
continued taking the tablets. Little by little the cramps seemed to ease, and
in any case he continued to take the extra nutrients on the side. But they
cannot perform miracles, while the amount of cell toxins in the body increase
to an overwhelming point. From there on, the problems started to really roll
in.
After that
he had a frightful pancreas infection. It blocked the bile duct. My husband
started to lose weight and his body started to weaken. He could not eat because
of the blockage. The doctors decided
without any examination and without taking further biopsy specimens that the
cause of the blockage was the cancer, and they did not even consider surgery.
This was even though the cancer had vanished from the stomach. Because there was no extra nutrition given to
him in the hospital, my husband’s condition got worse.
Then came a
painful procedure, when a stent was put in the bile duct. In the procedure some
bacteria from the bowel got into to the bloodstream, and a strong antibiotic
iv-drip was started. My husband’s general condition got worse. But we made it through that, too.
By googling,
we found information about infections of the pancreas, discovering that it is
more common amongst alcoholics. But in any case, a great amount of cell poisons
caused by chemotherapy is comparable to such as one would have when abusing
alcohol for years. Infections of the pancreas can cause bile duct blockages.
This was possible, the doctor also admitted, but this matter was only mentioned
on the side.
Every time
my husband went to talk about his health issues, it was always stated that the
cause was the cancer. The destruction
caused by chemotherapy in the body was not taken into consideration. For example, when his back got bad from lying
in the hospital, the health care-center doctor said that possibly the cancer had spread to the back
joints. The pain was gone with the help of an osteopath and a chiropractor. Or
when there some swellings in the lyphnodes of the groin appeared, just by
feeling quickly they said at the ER that the cancer had spread to these
areas. Finally, after some weeks, they
did a proper ultrasound and stated that there was no growth in the groin area.
NEW GALLBLADDER BLOCKAGE
In the
beginning of December it was discovered that the bile duct had another
blockage. We had wondered earlier why they did not operate in the first place,
because it could get blocked again? Oh
yes, they decided not to examine it (take a biopsy) because of the cancer,
which could not be operated on. The
presence of cancer cannot be measured in any other way, except for by taking a
biopsy to the labroratory.
Then came a
new painful treatment on the 7th of December 2012, and they applied
a new stent into the bile duct. The next day my husband was in a pain hell, as
his stomach pains were unspeakably terrible.
I rushed to
the nurse and said something was terribly wrong, the swelling and the pain in
his stomach were something he never had before.
The treatment had now gone wrong. We were told that it was the cancer
that was causing the pains and swelling.
I tried to
say strongly, there has never been any pain in his stomach before. They looked
at me with pity in their eyes,clearly thinking that we were just denying the
truth. The pain continued to be horrible.
At last, on Saturday, the 8th of December, the doctor on-call
came to look at the situation and asked, what was done on the treatment
yesterday, as there was no documentation of the procedure. We tried to explain
what was done. The doctor on-call suspected right away that there was a leak in
the bile ducts, which was dripping the gallbladder bile into the stomach
(everyone who has felt bile in their throat can imagine what kind of
destruction it can cause on the stomach’s tender mucous lining).
In the
x-rays showed that there was no drainage spot to be seen, so the matter was
left at that. It showed in the x-rays that the abdomen had thickened, had
cyst-like formations, and it was decided again that it was the cancer. Did they
not think about what a thickened abdominal wall and its gallbladder bile-burned
surface might look like? No, because
they had made up their minds that it was the cancer.
On Monday
December 10th my husband suffered severe pains, and finally in the afternoon
they decided to try draining, to see if they could empty the bile. In a few
seconds there spurted out 2 litres of fluid, and finally 7 litres was taken
away altogether. The fluid was greenish -yellow,
in other words it had gallbladder bile in it, and it had burned inside him for
two days. The CRP was 320 ( norm.10) and
they started a strong antibiotics regimen.
His breathing became laborious and again they thought it was the cancer.
After two days of gasping for breath, they found out it was a blood clot in the
lungs, which they started to take measures to dissolve.
LAST
MOMENTS
My husband’s
health started to get better and his CRP went down, and also the pains were
easing. On Saturday the 15th
of December the inflammation rate was only 115.
Then they
discovered that the antibiotics had caused a bacterial infection in the
intestine (clostridium difficile) and the drugs had to be changed. Lactic acid-
medication was not included in the
hospital regimen, which, being dumb, I thought would be an obvious part of the
treatment. The new antibiotics did not take the inflammation away and the
inflammation rate started rising again.
On Monday
the 17th of December my husband said to me that he was sure that he
would not be in the hospital in this condition, if he had only understood to
quit the chemotherapy. My husband
thought it was important for people to know about their choices,when the
medical profession does not have a cure to offer them -- when the doctors see
they do not have the answeres for a cure or even for improving the quality of
life of a patient.
He was, in
spite of everything, still in the strong belief that he would survive. We were
rejoicing in the afternoon, when we heard that a home care nurse had been arranged
for us and my husband would get to come home for Christmas. I phoned him in the evening and he reassured
me he was not going anywhere
and that he was going to make it.
Tuesday
morning, the 18th of December they discovered blood poisoning in his
system, caused by the antibiotics, as the blood was full of yeast and
fungus. After that the kidneys were
starting to fail and the end was near.
The conversations we had the day before remained the last clear
conversation we had.
My husband
passed away on December 18th approximately at 9:30 pm. Fortunately,
his passing on was beautiful and calm, aided by morphine and sedatives.
My husband
was an unbelievable soldier, and he was a fighter until the end. Regardless of the situation, he remained
confident of a positive outcome. He was never tired of letting us know how much
he loved us, and encouraged us to
believe that we were going to get through this. So we never got to talk about
death. All of us close to him,
honore his will to battle the cancer,
and we did not want to go against his wishes by giving up, so we all fought by
him until the end and believed in a miracle. My husband got to live fully until
the end, believing in life and love.
Now there is
left our love and love never dies <3.
THANK YOU
I witnessed
the cancer unit nursing staff and doctors do everything they could within their
knowledge and ”the tools” they had. They really put their skills and hearts out, in trying to save my husband, and
I do not wish to judge them for anything they did. Of course I am grateful to them in trying to save my husband.
But what
if, someday, the modern medical system had new ways of thinking, and new
treatments which would be more efficient in curing cancer, treatments that
would not destroy a patient’s health? No
doubt the health care system would greet these new methods with open arms. And
how much money would the health care system save all over the world, if
extremely expensive treatments were no longer needed, taking up so much of the
available resources.
If the
cancer treatments in question could be changed to a cure, instead of the
destruction of the body’s healthy cells, it would save millions of patients
from pain as well as a tremendous amount of money belonging to health care
systems around the world, which are all suffering from a lack of funds and
resources. The cancer unit, the ER and
the oncologists in the hospital near us are drowning in work, and it is difficult to provide correct,
humane care within a system lacking adequate resources. It is also hard to get
new doctors into the system, because they know that the industry is in a state
of chaos. So, a change would be welcomed by them also.
END
THOUGHTS AND LINKS FOR ALTERNATIVE CANCER TREATMENTS
Cancer-patient
or chemotherapy-patient?
We are used
to hearing about people getting cancer and then dying. What all happens in
between are their own individual stories. Did the patient really die because of
cancer, or because of the heavy-handed treatment? When we talk about a cancer patient, mostly
we have a picture in our mind of a bald- headed, skinny and pale person. But is the bald-headed picture that of a
cancer patient or is it one of a chemotherapy patient?
We have been
given an understanding suggesting that when we get a diagnosis of a serious
illness, the treatment should also be heavy-handed and destructive.
Many people
have come to tell me stories about their loved ones who died often within 1-3
months after they were first diagnosed with cancer and after the treatments
started. The people in question have
been in good condition otherwise, and the cancer had not spread to other parts
of their bodies. It is, in fact, very rare that cancer would have spread to any serious degree at the time the diagnosis
is given, so that it would actually be fatal within 1-3 months.
Cancer
cell theory
This
document: Why cancer must not be cured, opened my eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKtBw2JmaEQ
In this
document an Italian cancer doctor has discovered that cancer is a fungus and he has cured
people with very simple methods, like with Sodanium, affecting the patient’s
body balance (fungus and inflammations survive in low ph). After that he lost his licence. So it seems that it does not matter if the
patient is cured, only if it is medically proven, and if they even want to
prove the cure.
Some
research has been made of the efficiency of vitamins etc. with respect to
cancer treatments. But in these studies the amount of vitamins used have been
very small and have not been enough to prove their effectiveness. It is also important that the product is as
natural as it can be.
At any rate,
the modern theories about cancer cells are insufficient, because they cannot
explain sensibly, how uncurable cancers could disappear in time spans as short
as three weeks. These cases are talked about like they were miracles or wrong
diagnoses. Why are these cases not examined with great enthusiasm and heart by
the medical profession?
Treatments
that cure are already found amongst natural methods and they do not destroy the
body’s cells, like chemotherapy.
The
suggestion that cancer would be caused by a fungal/yeast parasite or such,
would explain clearly how it could have disappeared in three weeks with the use
of natural medicines.
Why are
scientists in Finland and other parts the world not hurrying and developing the
use of Selenium in cancer treatments, as is happening in Sweden? Docent Mikael Björnstedt is doing research on
the effect of Selenium on cancer cells, and he has discoverd that cancer cells
can disappear in timeframes as short as 48 hours. Selenium has the best effect
on the types of cancer where cell-toxins
are powerless.
Love and
strength to everyone struggling against cancer, with a hope that the methods of curing cancer are developed in a
more humane direction in the future. We are the most important people in
carrying on the word of a change which is possible, if we just believe in it.
Kreeta Karhu