Message: 2
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:13:39 -0000
From: maryw67686@...
Subject: To Toni and Kathy...(long)

Hi Toni...
Well said.
I surprised myself when I decided no radiation, no chemotherapy and
no tamoxifen. I'd been sick for fourteen years with chronic fatigue
and had grown increasingly impressed with how little help I received
for that illness from both sides.
So I'm not very trusting of anyone... to protect myself I lean
towards the treatments that are most likely to "first do no harm".
And that I have control over. Is this the best approach? I don't
know.

It is certainly time consuming and labor intensive not to mention
expensive. I have my days where I really envy women that just go to
their appointment get zapped with whatever conventional medicine
dishes out and then go home and try to cope with the side effects.
This path has also turned out to be very lonely in my remote, rural
area. The existing breast cancer groups are all conventional
treatment groups. In fact I recently attended a conference where I
met the facilitator of one group, and she mentioned that the one
woman in her group that had been doing alternative stuff, left. Her
reason for doing so was that it wasn't "what WAS said in the group,
but what WASN'T said"..(about stuff she could relate to I guess).
Most of the online groups I've visited are focusing on dealing with
the side effects of their conventional treatment.

I want to focus on healing from cancer, learn more about how to do
that. I think the "debating club" on this list is a good example of
how difficult it is to find a place where people, the people who are
most invested in finding a cure FAST, that is those of us afflicted
with it, can swap quality information, without others' emotional or
commercial agendas getting in our way.

Hi Kathy,
Both AMAS tests I've had done, the last a month ago, have been normal.
But I've also heard of people who had normal results and died shortly
after. One reason I do only the AMAS is that my surgeon, told me she
had no faith in the conventional cancer markers.

I find some comfort in getting normal results on the AMAS, but I
don't totally trust it. One thing I like about Hulda is the info she
passes on for reading your blood chemistries...she says you need to
monitor tumors and toxins...the tumors you follow through scans or
MRI, and the toxins you follow on the blood chemistries. And that
even if you are free of tumors, you can not rest until your blood
chemistry is normal.

As to your question, Kathy, as to how I'm doing...I don't feel
well...which is nothing new...at times I have felt well...I believe I
had the most toxic of livers and there is no end in sight of
parasites, it seems. I've had experience with colon cleansing over
10 years ago, and found that grueling,too. So based on that
experience, I keep telling myself now, that I feel so horrible
because I am stirring up toxins with all the liver flushes and
parasite cleansing I do.

Based on my hundreds if not over a thousand hours of research, I
think a toxic liver and malfunctioning lymphatic system are the big
players in breast cancer, at least in my situation. I think that
someone who has a relatively healthy liver, can probably withstand
the toxicity of chemo and radiation far better then my chemically
sensitive self.

I do wish more people that treat cancer would share their case
histories in book form, like Hulda did, so that we could all learn
from them.
Mary