Conventional Cancer Doctors @#>!##@!!!!
Received some news today in regards to my brothers colon cancer and it wasn't good! He finally had an appointment with an Oncologist and was told he would have to have his colostomy bag throughout his chemo/radiation treatment.....which he already knew....but then was told he would have to go through two bouts of the treatment which would put him in the 6 month area of treatment!!! Now mind you, his radiation therapist said he didn't see any reason why he couldn't go back in during treatment and have his colostomy reversed....the radiation shouldn't affect that at all!! (So he had a good outlook at that point.) Now this other doctor is telling him something all together different....and his regular cancer physician led him to believe all the time that he would be able to go back to work in 6-8 weeks and have the second surgery shortly after that time if he was feeling okay. Which one do you believe and why, oh why, don't these doctors get together to discuss treatments so that one is not telling the patient something totally different from another one?!!!
My feeling from the onset, was that his cancer physician was not being honest with my brother from the get-go. His bedside manner stunk when it came to how he handled the family members that were there for my brother! After the surgery, when he came out to tell us everything went well and we wanted to ask a couple of questions, he stated that he didn't have time for that right now and left!!! When we expressed our concern about this matter to our brother, I'm sure he didn't like it, but felt that since he started with this doctor, he was going to continue in order to get everything done as quickly as possible so that he could get on with his day to day living. So much for that theory!
My sister and I are going to see my brother tomorrow and hopefully talk him into consulting with another doctor and getting a second opinion. Hopefully, he'll take some guidance and start participating in his own medical education and realize that conventional doctors don't have all the answers and there just might be one out there that can help him better than this one is currently doing.
I really would like him to at least look at the information that is out there for alternative medicine and colon cancer treatment. There is just too much that points to it being a better way to go, not only for end results but for the benefits your body will receive instead of the chemo/radiation direction. Although the field is growing, here in Michigan we don't really have a lot of resources for alternative physicians. Having done research on the internet, I find only one place in Michigan that is listed as an alternative medicine clinic and that is at least a 4 1/2 hour drive from where he lives. What do you think the odds are that he'll take that route given the distance to get there?
I'm going to spend some time on the internet and at least see if I can come up with some phone numbers that he can call to get a referral to a practitioner that hopefully will be closer than half way across the state!
And, in the meantime, I pray for his cancer to go into remission on it's own!!! Miracles do happen!
My feeling from the onset, was that his cancer physician was not being honest with my brother from the get-go. His bedside manner stunk when it came to how he handled the family members that were there for my brother! After the surgery, when he came out to tell us everything went well and we wanted to ask a couple of questions, he stated that he didn't have time for that right now and left!!! When we expressed our concern about this matter to our brother, I'm sure he didn't like it, but felt that since he started with this doctor, he was going to continue in order to get everything done as quickly as possible so that he could get on with his day to day living. So much for that theory!
My sister and I are going to see my brother tomorrow and hopefully talk him into consulting with another doctor and getting a second opinion. Hopefully, he'll take some guidance and start participating in his own medical education and realize that conventional doctors don't have all the answers and there just might be one out there that can help him better than this one is currently doing.
I really would like him to at least look at the information that is out there for alternative medicine and colon cancer treatment. There is just too much that points to it being a better way to go, not only for end results but for the benefits your body will receive instead of the chemo/radiation direction. Although the field is growing, here in Michigan we don't really have a lot of resources for alternative physicians. Having done research on the internet, I find only one place in Michigan that is listed as an alternative medicine clinic and that is at least a 4 1/2 hour drive from where he lives. What do you think the odds are that he'll take that route given the distance to get there?
I'm going to spend some time on the internet and at least see if I can come up with some phone numbers that he can call to get a referral to a practitioner that hopefully will be closer than half way across the state!
And, in the meantime, I pray for his cancer to go into remission on it's own!!! Miracles do happen!
posted by J. Martin at 10:38 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks Marka....I just get so heated up when I find things/information that could be helping people...and it becomes "blocked". Especially, since this disease has struck so many times in my own family. I don't think a five to eight year survival rate for conventional medicine alone is a good enough track record for all the damage that I've seen their treatments do.
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