I see a comment from a woman who stopped taking every vitamin but the calcium. That must be because the survey showed it was ok? Look, this survey followed women who self administered and self recorded what they took, well how many did that religiously everyday or as human nature is, how many forgot for days on end to record it down and then have to guess back what they took
I have known people who agree to these surveys, completely forget for weeks and then make it up!
that unfortuntely is human nature, so if that isn't a big enough question mark over this study, what about this...
For most people to spend money on vitamins, they might first be thinking their bodies need it, that could be because of an underlying illness or problem. We don't know if these women were all perfectly healthy specimens and i doubt they all were, given the length of this survey.
They probably took only the RDA, recommended daily allowance, which as i said is really just enough to keep you alive, not make you well - 2 very different things!
Most people have not a clue what strength they can safely go to with vitamins, and would dare not exceed that RDA! Just in case!
If the RDA make expensive urine as the Dr says, what about the hormone filled urine from the contraceptive pill etc If the doctor is under the belief that these vitamins are just being urinated out of the body, then the body is getting rid of what it doesn't need and not building up causing problems, as many allopathic medicines do.
Dr's can't have the argument all ways!
Lets have proper RDA's and not these very low RDA's that will be ineffective against major problems but then allow medics and pharma to declare vitamins to be ineffective.
If vitamins were administered at true therapeutic levels, i'm sure these flawed results would be very different.
If nothing else, watch 'Food Matters - the movie' you will see just what amazing things can happen to the body when the dose is high enough to do good.
These guys were treating cancer with mega high doses of Vit C and the cancers were going, with the only side effect of a slightly mussy head and thirst..now isn't that better than chemo where you will lose your hair, weight, your healthy cells, have nausea etc etc and possibly die from the effects of it, like my sister!
So if you still think that vitamins are at best useless and at worst, harmfull, follow the research of those that study them properly and not a doctor who has less than a half day training on nutrition in the UK. You wouldn't trust your dentist if he only attended 1 afternoon of his training and expect him to be an expert.
You wouldn't even trust your car to a mechanic who attended a half days training, so why would you put your nutritional health into the hands of someone with a similar level of training.
A quick glance around a hospital will show you that health and nutrition don't share a ward! or we wouldn't have some long term patients leave hospital malnourished!
We live in a world with info at our fingertips yet we don't research the important stuff in life and blindly follow the ignorant!
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Sunday, 16 October 2011
Vaccinations and the Fear that Drives Parents to Them!
Yesterday I met a woman whose son i had previously treated for multiple allergies. Her son had many intolerances and the cause of which was many of his childhood vaccinations.
As soon as i treated the immune system to strengthen it for the vaccinations, his allergies started to go and he has remained clear of all but the allergy for oats, which is obviously still needed by the body.
The parents knew that the vaccines had been the cause, but when the invite for this little boy to go to the surgery for his pre school boosters came, they didn't know what to do. Firstly the mother told me that she thought she wouldn't take him, then she felt she would leave it to fate to decide and if the next letter arrived they would take him.
Well surprise surprise a second letter arrived and this little 42month old child had a booster for MMR and the 5-1 vaccine, in fact the mother wasn't too sure what he had.
But this little boys body was given 8 vaccines in one go!
When ever would a body under normal circumstances, contract, measles, mumps and rubella along with meningitis, polio, tetanus etc etc etc all in one go!
But somehow it is deemed ok to give them all in one shot.
At least it is only 2 doses of the awful adjuvants that go into vaccine to force the body into doing something with them, but that is a small price to pay! No vaccines, no adjuvants!
It is not the parents i blame here, but the enormous pressure that is put on parents to conform and the lies that are told to them about vaccines and there safety.
If they are so safe and full of wholesome ingredients, then list them and let the parents know what they are.
After all, a child is the most prescious gift you are ever given temporary care off, and yet look at what we do to our small babies and infants with all the vaccines heading there way.
If you saw your child with 8 needles going into its arm, i'm sure no parent would allow it to happen
We are probably setting up all sorts of problems for our children, as we are directed to do what the NHS/Government want, and they use the foulest of tactics...Fear!
No medicine and decision on health should be made on fear and no organisation should use fear based psychology to manipulate the populus and play on their emotions.
In this day of age where we have so many ways of gaining information, why are parents not looking at this with as much interest as they would if they were buying a car!
You buy a car, or a house or other costly purchase, you read about it, gain as much info as you can, yet it is still just an object. Yet for our children, we need to see all the arguments for and against the vaccines.
Both involve money being handed over to a large organisation, just with the vaccines we don't see it.
Time for parents to start demanding to see the information sheet that should come with the vaccines
As soon as i treated the immune system to strengthen it for the vaccinations, his allergies started to go and he has remained clear of all but the allergy for oats, which is obviously still needed by the body.
The parents knew that the vaccines had been the cause, but when the invite for this little boy to go to the surgery for his pre school boosters came, they didn't know what to do. Firstly the mother told me that she thought she wouldn't take him, then she felt she would leave it to fate to decide and if the next letter arrived they would take him.
Well surprise surprise a second letter arrived and this little 42month old child had a booster for MMR and the 5-1 vaccine, in fact the mother wasn't too sure what he had.
But this little boys body was given 8 vaccines in one go!
When ever would a body under normal circumstances, contract, measles, mumps and rubella along with meningitis, polio, tetanus etc etc etc all in one go!
But somehow it is deemed ok to give them all in one shot.
At least it is only 2 doses of the awful adjuvants that go into vaccine to force the body into doing something with them, but that is a small price to pay! No vaccines, no adjuvants!
It is not the parents i blame here, but the enormous pressure that is put on parents to conform and the lies that are told to them about vaccines and there safety.
If they are so safe and full of wholesome ingredients, then list them and let the parents know what they are.
After all, a child is the most prescious gift you are ever given temporary care off, and yet look at what we do to our small babies and infants with all the vaccines heading there way.
If you saw your child with 8 needles going into its arm, i'm sure no parent would allow it to happen
We are probably setting up all sorts of problems for our children, as we are directed to do what the NHS/Government want, and they use the foulest of tactics...Fear!
No medicine and decision on health should be made on fear and no organisation should use fear based psychology to manipulate the populus and play on their emotions.
In this day of age where we have so many ways of gaining information, why are parents not looking at this with as much interest as they would if they were buying a car!
You buy a car, or a house or other costly purchase, you read about it, gain as much info as you can, yet it is still just an object. Yet for our children, we need to see all the arguments for and against the vaccines.
Both involve money being handed over to a large organisation, just with the vaccines we don't see it.
Time for parents to start demanding to see the information sheet that should come with the vaccines
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Do the Best for Your Breasts!
If you could find a way of helping to keep breast tissue healthy why wouldn't you do it.
Do you want to be the next person discussing the wig you might need when the chemotherapy takes a hold?
That is the reality for many women today, but what if you could do something to make that risk as small or may be even as non existant as possible?
'If breast tissue ifs healthy then by definition it can not become unhealthy at the same time' so says David Stevens
In fact it won't just be the breast tissue that is healthy, you can't improve the health of one part of the body without enjoying the benefits of health improvements all over - that is how the body works.
It doesn't divide up into specialist clinics, only hospitals do that!
David Stevens has just launched his new booklet that will inform us how we can achieve healthy breast tissue.
The title of this book.......'Every Woman's Guide to Vital Breast Health'
Why wait for a problem to occur, if you can start to do something that creates and helps maintain healthy breast tissue - what stops you?
There are no medicines or supplements involved, nothing that is going to cost you money month after month, in fact some women have found that they have saved money.....
You don't have to live in fear that disease may occur in the breasts, you can be active in doing your best for your breasts! and aim for healthy breast tissue!
If genetically you have been told that you are more prone to breast problems, then this is the book for you!
You will find all you need to know in this inexpensive book, that might just make all the difference to your health now and in the future
Do the Best for Your Breasts!
Janey Lee Grace loves this book too, check out 'Janey Loves' at imperfectlynatural.com and enter the competition to win a copy or go direct to www.vitalbodyhealth.co.uk and buy it for yourself It could be the best £7.95 you ever spend on yourself or for a friend!
Do you want to be the next person discussing the wig you might need when the chemotherapy takes a hold?
That is the reality for many women today, but what if you could do something to make that risk as small or may be even as non existant as possible?
'If breast tissue ifs healthy then by definition it can not become unhealthy at the same time' so says David Stevens
In fact it won't just be the breast tissue that is healthy, you can't improve the health of one part of the body without enjoying the benefits of health improvements all over - that is how the body works.
It doesn't divide up into specialist clinics, only hospitals do that!
David Stevens has just launched his new booklet that will inform us how we can achieve healthy breast tissue.
The title of this book.......'Every Woman's Guide to Vital Breast Health'
Why wait for a problem to occur, if you can start to do something that creates and helps maintain healthy breast tissue - what stops you?
There are no medicines or supplements involved, nothing that is going to cost you money month after month, in fact some women have found that they have saved money.....
You don't have to live in fear that disease may occur in the breasts, you can be active in doing your best for your breasts! and aim for healthy breast tissue!
If genetically you have been told that you are more prone to breast problems, then this is the book for you!
You will find all you need to know in this inexpensive book, that might just make all the difference to your health now and in the future
Do the Best for Your Breasts!
Janey Lee Grace loves this book too, check out 'Janey Loves' at imperfectlynatural.com and enter the competition to win a copy or go direct to www.vitalbodyhealth.co.uk and buy it for yourself It could be the best £7.95 you ever spend on yourself or for a friend!
Friday, 9 September 2011
Crystal Therapy
Crystals have always been a little on the edge for me in terms of being a way to treat the body.
I love them but only as the wonderful stones they are, beautiful to look at and hold.
But a few weeks back i went for a taster session of a crystal healing with a therapist i know and was so surprised at the subtleness of the shift in energy and how that made me feel.
I decided to go along and have a full treatment and now have had 2 full sessions. It is amazing to me just what is picked up as my therapist dowsed for the right crystal and where my blocks were etc.
She picked up on my throat as being blocked and true enough there were things i needed to say and didn't have the courage or create the opportunity to 'speak my truth'
The thoraic area had 'breaks' in it and this was an area that has been giving me a lot of trouble, but again, the therapist wasn't aware of that , but had determined it by the dowsing and crystals
It has certainly made me change my mind on the effects of such things and although I'm sure many who are aware of this already must wonder how others don't experience it, i guess we all come to diferent things at different times when our bodies need them.
A delightful way to spend an hour and come away feeling a little more connected and slightly 'de fragged'
A really good cleanse.
Later that day, i found my expresssion and was able to say what had been troubling me all week. Coincidence...I think not as i don't believe in coincidence in any way.
I love them but only as the wonderful stones they are, beautiful to look at and hold.
But a few weeks back i went for a taster session of a crystal healing with a therapist i know and was so surprised at the subtleness of the shift in energy and how that made me feel.
I decided to go along and have a full treatment and now have had 2 full sessions. It is amazing to me just what is picked up as my therapist dowsed for the right crystal and where my blocks were etc.
She picked up on my throat as being blocked and true enough there were things i needed to say and didn't have the courage or create the opportunity to 'speak my truth'
The thoraic area had 'breaks' in it and this was an area that has been giving me a lot of trouble, but again, the therapist wasn't aware of that , but had determined it by the dowsing and crystals
It has certainly made me change my mind on the effects of such things and although I'm sure many who are aware of this already must wonder how others don't experience it, i guess we all come to diferent things at different times when our bodies need them.
A delightful way to spend an hour and come away feeling a little more connected and slightly 'de fragged'
A really good cleanse.
Later that day, i found my expresssion and was able to say what had been troubling me all week. Coincidence...I think not as i don't believe in coincidence in any way.
Saturday, 27 August 2011
Cancer, The sadness of losing a sister! But can we afford the cure?
I haven't been able to blog lately.
Last time I blogged it was about my sister and the news that she had terminal cancer.
Sadly she had 6 weeks from diagnosis and as a family lost a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend!
Given my background in complementary health and my despise of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it was very hard to accept that the fear that is so very present and sadly capitalised on, albeit without intention, drives a person and in this case, my sister, to opt for chemotherapy.
It was offered on the basis that it may extend her life by months, sadly it went very wrong immediately, and my sister went from walking into the hospital to have her chemo, and being told how well she looked, to the very next day, bedridden and at deaths door!
I spent that night and the next with her in hospital,alongside her husband, while she had scans to see what went wrong. The chemo had caused the tumour to bleed and filled her lungs. I was told by the oncology doctor at 1.30am after an emergency scan, it was rare for that to happen but can sometimes.....Rare? i wonder as less than 24hrs later i heard of exactly the same thing occuring to a man in hospital in kent.
When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in the lung and in 2 places in her spine, she was told there was nothing they could do.
At that point all hope seems to have been taken away and you are left with a poor prognosis.
Just because this hospital had nothing they could offer, to say there was nothing that could be done may be wrong.
It should be at that point that you are given encouragement to find what else is out there and family encouraged to look for hope and help.
It is not about false hope, but about some hope and after all, who has the right to say that your life will end and take hope away.
In the 2.5 weeks that followed the initial news of the extent of the condition, I used CKT to establish a programme of hydrotherapy, oxygen therapy, alkaline diet, the use of Vit C, hydrogen peroxide and homeopathy.
Everything indicated that my sister had a good chance of changing her fortunes. The testing machine used by a very capable homeopath who had seen success in his treatments of cancer patients, showed that with the right combination the body could change back the unhealthy cells to healthy cells. After all, there were still more healthy cells than unhealthy ones.
CKT confirmed this and during this time, my sister went home and managed, albeit taking things easy, but still managing trips to the theatre, and out for dinner, shopping etc. The hospital had agreed, much to my surprise, that she could have oxygen at home from BOC to help with the oxygen therapy. Of course it couldn't be written up for that purpose, but the doctor could see the logic behind it i guess.
That logic being that the vast amounts of cancers do not like oxygen rich bodies and that they do not thrive in alkaline states. As most of us have acid up bodies and shallow breathe, we give it prime conditions to develop!
Doing so well was perhaps to her detriment, as it was then decided to offer her chemotherapy as they thought her body could cope with it. Interesting that you have to be relatively well to have this!
My sister felt she had to try both options and couldn't risk putting all her eggs in to one basket, (the non medical route) as she said.
'Pity you chose a basket with a ruddy great big hole in it' - quote from her son, after the chemo had caused her massive problems.
She promised she would keep up all the other routines, but I knew her body would not have the strength or will after the chemo.
She asked me to use CKT to see if her body would benefit from Chemo and it was a firm no!, but she still felt that she couldn't risk not having the chemo.
It is so deep in our psyche, that these are the only options and we have to try them, never mind that they rarely work in the long term and the suffering caused by the radiotherapy and chemo is like torture in this day and age. That is what so many members of the public think they have to do for their best chance of survival.
Lets not forget, cancer is a business and look at how many jobs it supports and drug companies and subsequently shareholders etc that 'benefit' from this illness! Where is the incentive to truly find a cure?
So ignoring all the advice from her body, my sister turned up for her chemo.......6 hours too early!! She was sent away. Could the universe send her a bigger signal? She returned when she was told, 6 hours later. from that day she never really recovered. Basically sent home to die!
But with the help of homeopathy, we used remedies to help begin to clear the chemo from her body and she never lost her hair! Hair that had been a signature for her. Known for her willingness to try a new style or some bold colour through it. None as bold as an electric blue streak she once had in her very dark hair - stunning!
Remember i said she was sent home to die, well she didn't do it in the time span that was felt, a matter of days if that!, but 3 weeks later. In that time the hospice at home nurses had their input and the encouragement to keep the morphine going in, despite her not being in pain!, was too much to watch...anger, oh yes!!
My other sister doesn't believe in any other approach other than the medical one and basically encouraged my sister to accept her fate, thinking acceptance is the best way. This, despite the medical establishment failing our sister badly in the 2 years up to the cancer diagnosis!
This caused such trauma and unforgiveable in my eyes.
Her children and husband just wanting her to keep fighting, but the more morphine that goes in (unnecessarily) with what ever is used to dry up the fluids, basically dehydrating the body, of course the body ceases to cope and closes down!
I was so shocked to see how quickly the nurses wanted my sister to have the morphine, even suggesting it before any pain had been experienced. My sister wasn't taking mild pain relief at this point and nothing regularly, but i watched how they talked my sister into it...a vulnerable and scared person can be convinced of anything. 'better to have the morphine going in now so you don't feel the pain when it comes' was what one 'well meaning' nurse told her.....I mean do you take an aspirin just in case that day you get a headache?
So the body had no chance of doing what it need to do, as everything was beginning to be surpressed by morphine.
I was horrified at how much control over medication is left to one nurse in this home situation.....not the same had my sister been in a hospice environment i'm sure, where the monitoring and increasing of a drug is much deliberated on and not a set course of just doubling it up.
At one point, even a visiting GP thought the amount of morphine the nurses had given was too high and reduced it. She was barely aware of anything, but when the effects of the morphine started to wear off she remembered that i had to go away for 2 day for work and where i had been. the morphine etc had her so sedated she couldn't have voiced her wishes even, but that night, they put it up again and added some. They used the excuse she was distressed!
How could they establish my sister had 'capacity' in compliance with the 'mental capacity act' even?
A small point you might think....but one that is there to safe guard and was it followed in this situation?
If they established she was distressed then she had every right to be, but distress and pain are not the same. The distress isn't always due to pain, it is far more likely the entire circumstances and do we give morphine and sedatives to numb that?
I would be distressed if i had been given no hope and everything to hasten an end.
Interesting that when my sister first came home after the chemo disaster and she was anxious, a visiting GP was reluctant to give her anything of any real strengh to help the anxiety as it would exacerbate the lung condition and she would find it hard to breathe, yet so very quickly and with no change in her condition, a sedative was being given?
My sister told me she was always careful to tell them (the nurses) she was having aches not pain! Aches from having to lay in an awkward position, but that we could massage away. Pain is quite a different story. So in those early stages, she was having morphine for aches!
Prior to the chemo,I pleaded with my sister to ask for another scan that day, as all that she had been doing would have had an effect, but she wouldn't. Convinced they would say no and wouldn't have time before the chemo....all to the good in my mind if she had to delay it, but she didn't want to do anything that delayed it.
The hospital based their chemo on a scan from a few weeks back at that point. can that be right?
The saddest thing was, that when she fell so very ill after the very first dose of chemo, she told her husband and daughter, she made the wrong choice! That breaks my heart! and as i type it, it rips at my stomach still!
We were with her when she died, her daughter, eldest son, husband and myself, plus a nurse who was far too accurate for comfort at the timing that night/early hours that my sister would die! Experience of body signs or experience of how the medication in the driver would work?
Well that is one question we will never know the answer to and for my sister, purely all academic.
All the money that gets ploughed into cancer research....where does it go? It must be billions world wide, and yet still no cure??? When was the latest chemo drugs produced for general use? Certainly I don't think we can declare them to be 'state of the art'
Don't forget charities are a business too and how much of the money raised goes into keeping the charity going and all whose jobs and work rely on it.
Does the money only fund research into drugs?...in that case, we may as well raise money for Pfizer of GSK or any of the other drug company. Would that get the money rolling in I wonder. Would you 'Race for life' if you knew the money may end up in a drug companies hands or is it better to ' Race for life' under 'Cancer Research' Is it or is it not the same....do you know how it works?
Does it ever fund research into cancer treatments from a non drug approach...probably not....no profit! Where is the profit if we find that Hydrotherapy or Hyperthermia or Alkaline diets etc etc etc when put into a formal programme for someone, have the effects of reversing the results in a cancer stricken body?
Do we just expect medicine to be complicated or formed in a pill etc to work? If so we are just as much to blame for the system we have.
Of course if you have spent years qualifying as a doctor and you have entered that profession to heal. you have gone through a certain learning and indoctrination that after all that time, to question it would be questioning all you have ever done and learned...an impossible task perhaps to expect of anyone. Shame!
But if billions of pounds/dollars were put into any other business and not showing matching improvement....what would happen!
We assume all must be working to the ultimate cure....where is the incentive for the ulitmate cure?
Last time I blogged it was about my sister and the news that she had terminal cancer.
Sadly she had 6 weeks from diagnosis and as a family lost a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend!
Given my background in complementary health and my despise of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it was very hard to accept that the fear that is so very present and sadly capitalised on, albeit without intention, drives a person and in this case, my sister, to opt for chemotherapy.
It was offered on the basis that it may extend her life by months, sadly it went very wrong immediately, and my sister went from walking into the hospital to have her chemo, and being told how well she looked, to the very next day, bedridden and at deaths door!
I spent that night and the next with her in hospital,alongside her husband, while she had scans to see what went wrong. The chemo had caused the tumour to bleed and filled her lungs. I was told by the oncology doctor at 1.30am after an emergency scan, it was rare for that to happen but can sometimes.....Rare? i wonder as less than 24hrs later i heard of exactly the same thing occuring to a man in hospital in kent.
When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in the lung and in 2 places in her spine, she was told there was nothing they could do.
At that point all hope seems to have been taken away and you are left with a poor prognosis.
Just because this hospital had nothing they could offer, to say there was nothing that could be done may be wrong.
It should be at that point that you are given encouragement to find what else is out there and family encouraged to look for hope and help.
It is not about false hope, but about some hope and after all, who has the right to say that your life will end and take hope away.
In the 2.5 weeks that followed the initial news of the extent of the condition, I used CKT to establish a programme of hydrotherapy, oxygen therapy, alkaline diet, the use of Vit C, hydrogen peroxide and homeopathy.
Everything indicated that my sister had a good chance of changing her fortunes. The testing machine used by a very capable homeopath who had seen success in his treatments of cancer patients, showed that with the right combination the body could change back the unhealthy cells to healthy cells. After all, there were still more healthy cells than unhealthy ones.
CKT confirmed this and during this time, my sister went home and managed, albeit taking things easy, but still managing trips to the theatre, and out for dinner, shopping etc. The hospital had agreed, much to my surprise, that she could have oxygen at home from BOC to help with the oxygen therapy. Of course it couldn't be written up for that purpose, but the doctor could see the logic behind it i guess.
That logic being that the vast amounts of cancers do not like oxygen rich bodies and that they do not thrive in alkaline states. As most of us have acid up bodies and shallow breathe, we give it prime conditions to develop!
Doing so well was perhaps to her detriment, as it was then decided to offer her chemotherapy as they thought her body could cope with it. Interesting that you have to be relatively well to have this!
My sister felt she had to try both options and couldn't risk putting all her eggs in to one basket, (the non medical route) as she said.
'Pity you chose a basket with a ruddy great big hole in it' - quote from her son, after the chemo had caused her massive problems.
She promised she would keep up all the other routines, but I knew her body would not have the strength or will after the chemo.
She asked me to use CKT to see if her body would benefit from Chemo and it was a firm no!, but she still felt that she couldn't risk not having the chemo.
It is so deep in our psyche, that these are the only options and we have to try them, never mind that they rarely work in the long term and the suffering caused by the radiotherapy and chemo is like torture in this day and age. That is what so many members of the public think they have to do for their best chance of survival.
Lets not forget, cancer is a business and look at how many jobs it supports and drug companies and subsequently shareholders etc that 'benefit' from this illness! Where is the incentive to truly find a cure?
So ignoring all the advice from her body, my sister turned up for her chemo.......6 hours too early!! She was sent away. Could the universe send her a bigger signal? She returned when she was told, 6 hours later. from that day she never really recovered. Basically sent home to die!
But with the help of homeopathy, we used remedies to help begin to clear the chemo from her body and she never lost her hair! Hair that had been a signature for her. Known for her willingness to try a new style or some bold colour through it. None as bold as an electric blue streak she once had in her very dark hair - stunning!
Remember i said she was sent home to die, well she didn't do it in the time span that was felt, a matter of days if that!, but 3 weeks later. In that time the hospice at home nurses had their input and the encouragement to keep the morphine going in, despite her not being in pain!, was too much to watch...anger, oh yes!!
My other sister doesn't believe in any other approach other than the medical one and basically encouraged my sister to accept her fate, thinking acceptance is the best way. This, despite the medical establishment failing our sister badly in the 2 years up to the cancer diagnosis!
This caused such trauma and unforgiveable in my eyes.
Her children and husband just wanting her to keep fighting, but the more morphine that goes in (unnecessarily) with what ever is used to dry up the fluids, basically dehydrating the body, of course the body ceases to cope and closes down!
I was so shocked to see how quickly the nurses wanted my sister to have the morphine, even suggesting it before any pain had been experienced. My sister wasn't taking mild pain relief at this point and nothing regularly, but i watched how they talked my sister into it...a vulnerable and scared person can be convinced of anything. 'better to have the morphine going in now so you don't feel the pain when it comes' was what one 'well meaning' nurse told her.....I mean do you take an aspirin just in case that day you get a headache?
So the body had no chance of doing what it need to do, as everything was beginning to be surpressed by morphine.
I was horrified at how much control over medication is left to one nurse in this home situation.....not the same had my sister been in a hospice environment i'm sure, where the monitoring and increasing of a drug is much deliberated on and not a set course of just doubling it up.
At one point, even a visiting GP thought the amount of morphine the nurses had given was too high and reduced it. She was barely aware of anything, but when the effects of the morphine started to wear off she remembered that i had to go away for 2 day for work and where i had been. the morphine etc had her so sedated she couldn't have voiced her wishes even, but that night, they put it up again and added some. They used the excuse she was distressed!
How could they establish my sister had 'capacity' in compliance with the 'mental capacity act' even?
A small point you might think....but one that is there to safe guard and was it followed in this situation?
If they established she was distressed then she had every right to be, but distress and pain are not the same. The distress isn't always due to pain, it is far more likely the entire circumstances and do we give morphine and sedatives to numb that?
I would be distressed if i had been given no hope and everything to hasten an end.
Interesting that when my sister first came home after the chemo disaster and she was anxious, a visiting GP was reluctant to give her anything of any real strengh to help the anxiety as it would exacerbate the lung condition and she would find it hard to breathe, yet so very quickly and with no change in her condition, a sedative was being given?
My sister told me she was always careful to tell them (the nurses) she was having aches not pain! Aches from having to lay in an awkward position, but that we could massage away. Pain is quite a different story. So in those early stages, she was having morphine for aches!
Prior to the chemo,I pleaded with my sister to ask for another scan that day, as all that she had been doing would have had an effect, but she wouldn't. Convinced they would say no and wouldn't have time before the chemo....all to the good in my mind if she had to delay it, but she didn't want to do anything that delayed it.
The hospital based their chemo on a scan from a few weeks back at that point. can that be right?
The saddest thing was, that when she fell so very ill after the very first dose of chemo, she told her husband and daughter, she made the wrong choice! That breaks my heart! and as i type it, it rips at my stomach still!
We were with her when she died, her daughter, eldest son, husband and myself, plus a nurse who was far too accurate for comfort at the timing that night/early hours that my sister would die! Experience of body signs or experience of how the medication in the driver would work?
Well that is one question we will never know the answer to and for my sister, purely all academic.
All the money that gets ploughed into cancer research....where does it go? It must be billions world wide, and yet still no cure??? When was the latest chemo drugs produced for general use? Certainly I don't think we can declare them to be 'state of the art'
Don't forget charities are a business too and how much of the money raised goes into keeping the charity going and all whose jobs and work rely on it.
Does the money only fund research into drugs?...in that case, we may as well raise money for Pfizer of GSK or any of the other drug company. Would that get the money rolling in I wonder. Would you 'Race for life' if you knew the money may end up in a drug companies hands or is it better to ' Race for life' under 'Cancer Research' Is it or is it not the same....do you know how it works?
Does it ever fund research into cancer treatments from a non drug approach...probably not....no profit! Where is the profit if we find that Hydrotherapy or Hyperthermia or Alkaline diets etc etc etc when put into a formal programme for someone, have the effects of reversing the results in a cancer stricken body?
Do we just expect medicine to be complicated or formed in a pill etc to work? If so we are just as much to blame for the system we have.
Of course if you have spent years qualifying as a doctor and you have entered that profession to heal. you have gone through a certain learning and indoctrination that after all that time, to question it would be questioning all you have ever done and learned...an impossible task perhaps to expect of anyone. Shame!
But if billions of pounds/dollars were put into any other business and not showing matching improvement....what would happen!
We assume all must be working to the ultimate cure....where is the incentive for the ulitmate cure?
Sunday, 22 May 2011
A Not So Well Womans Journey
The Well Woman! Sadly I watched a sister being given the news that she is not such a well woman right now
Out of the blue, came a diganosis of lung cancer and a couple of sites showing in the spine. A huge shock for her and for those around her.
This is a woman who eats the right food, cooks and prepares all fresh food, drinks very little alcohol, never smokes and very fit through exercise, so what else does one have to do to prevent the cells from turning cancerous?
How much is emotion involved?
What is deficient in her body?
What went wrong?
The questions have been endless and of course the 'Why her' or as she herself said 'Why me?'
When you are told that the only option they have is some radiotherapy on the spine and chemotherapy to 'buy time' You have to look at every other option and resist the negativity of the words of the doctors!
They don't mean to be so negative, i'm sure, but everything that one reads says that never is it more important to keep a positive mindset to help gain health, than when your body needs to deal with this illness.
This is not a time to hear a prediction of life expectancy, after all, no one knows that and I certainly don't want my sisters body to start pre programming itself or beginning some kind of subconscious morbid count down! There is no point in that as it just puts the focus on ill health and i want to keep her focus on health.
My sister had a drain put in which has allowed the fluid to empty from the lung lining and this was an intervention she couldn't do without. It allowed her to breathe and in so doing has allowed her to start a deep breathing routine to oxygenate the body. The drain has now been removed and hopefully can remain that way
Whilst she was in hospital, they didn't stop us in helping her follow a naturapathic approach. In fact they were happy to help get the very hot water and the icy cold water needed
The routine included deep breathing in a particular way to fill the blood with as much oxygen as possible, followed by hot and cold hydrotherapy to focus the oxygented blood to where it is needed most, at the same time using hot mustard foot baths, which have been brilliant at seeing the colour instantly come back to the cheeks and for her to feel expansion in the lungs.
It is not an easy regime to follow for the amount of times a day she has to do it, but I'm proud of her that she is giving it her all as best she can right now, but i nag her to step it up a bit more.
Given my trust in CKT as a therapy, we have been using this in many ways. We used it to determine the correct foods for her to create an alkaline body and to ensure this sugar loving, anaerobic cancer doesn't get what it wants.
So a specialised/tailored diet has been created for her along with using it to determine what supplements and dietary supports she needs
Thus my sister has me on her case, keeping her positive, focused on health, following the regime and then if that isn't enough having the cheek to get her to drink turmeric, bicarb, slippery elm, milk thistle, mistletoe,Vit C, Vit D and a plethora of supportive measures, all determined by CKT
She has the excellent support of her family who are fully engaged in getting her health back!
The hospital have allowed her to have pure oxygen to help in oxygenating the body and thus aiming for a detrimental effect on the cancer cells.
Not all cancers are oxygen hating, the majority are and thrive in low oxygen and acidic bodies. My sister's condition seems to have started when she was so anaemic that she needed a blood transfusion, and had been for sometime, a condition missed by her GP! Could this be one of the factors that let it develop? I say one of, as cancer is complex and hides in the body, so I feel that it is the right set of circumstances that come together to allow it to develop, especially perhaps if it was as a result of a virus that the body failed to deal with properly.
Maintaining a healthy immune system is essential of course to life and good health, yet we compromise it in so many ways, by poor nutrition, vaccinations, antibiotics etc etc
It may be a lesson never to dismiss anaemia quite so lightly also, as does often happen for women.
It is not an easy option to engage in this approach, but all the time it is supporting the healthy cells and spoiling the party for the unhealthy cells. There are no guarantees with anything, but at least this method focuses on health, it doesn't give the cancer any attention at all and supports the immune system.
It is very often the case that people talk of fighting cancer, but who wants to go to war with their own body. It is best ignored
We have used CKT to help treat the emotions that can screw up our bodies and to support the body in many ways, initiating the changes that are needed. We can hold emotion in our bodies that in our conscious mind would make no sense to us, and for my sister, i found her overiding emotion to be grief, and grief is very often linked to the lungs, exactly where her problem lays.
Good emotional health is crucial to good physical well being of course
Keeping positive! crucial, but so hard for the person concerned. It is easy for those around to give the advice and keep the motivation going, but life is a lonely journey really and not one of us can even begin to know what that must feel like.
So the other night, I drew my sister a picture of her body and it's organs and we ticked all the healthy ones and all the healthy parts and in comparison there are far more healthy parts than unhealthy ones and that is what we need to focus on and especially at those dark moments at 4am when you wake and all the thoughts start zooming in, that is when you need that inner strength to turn up the positivity dial.
You see it in the face, that even when all around are sharing a joke or talking about the everyday things in life, her thoughts have gone to that dark place and that is when you have to help turn it around.
This week sees visits back to the hospital for her and i suppose they will want to talk chemotherapy.
She knows that if this is the route she wants to try, then we can still support the body as much as possible, but it is harder for the body to cope when the chemo starts to weaken all the cells and not just the cancerous ones. Cancer cells tend to have tougher cell walls than our normal body cells, which is why the delicate cells of the hair are some of the first to go when chemo starts and hair loss follows. The healthy cells will need more support, but what ever route she ops for, the natural medicine approach thus far will have given her a good start.
Out of the blue, came a diganosis of lung cancer and a couple of sites showing in the spine. A huge shock for her and for those around her.
This is a woman who eats the right food, cooks and prepares all fresh food, drinks very little alcohol, never smokes and very fit through exercise, so what else does one have to do to prevent the cells from turning cancerous?
How much is emotion involved?
What is deficient in her body?
What went wrong?
The questions have been endless and of course the 'Why her' or as she herself said 'Why me?'
When you are told that the only option they have is some radiotherapy on the spine and chemotherapy to 'buy time' You have to look at every other option and resist the negativity of the words of the doctors!
They don't mean to be so negative, i'm sure, but everything that one reads says that never is it more important to keep a positive mindset to help gain health, than when your body needs to deal with this illness.
This is not a time to hear a prediction of life expectancy, after all, no one knows that and I certainly don't want my sisters body to start pre programming itself or beginning some kind of subconscious morbid count down! There is no point in that as it just puts the focus on ill health and i want to keep her focus on health.
My sister had a drain put in which has allowed the fluid to empty from the lung lining and this was an intervention she couldn't do without. It allowed her to breathe and in so doing has allowed her to start a deep breathing routine to oxygenate the body. The drain has now been removed and hopefully can remain that way
Whilst she was in hospital, they didn't stop us in helping her follow a naturapathic approach. In fact they were happy to help get the very hot water and the icy cold water needed
The routine included deep breathing in a particular way to fill the blood with as much oxygen as possible, followed by hot and cold hydrotherapy to focus the oxygented blood to where it is needed most, at the same time using hot mustard foot baths, which have been brilliant at seeing the colour instantly come back to the cheeks and for her to feel expansion in the lungs.
It is not an easy regime to follow for the amount of times a day she has to do it, but I'm proud of her that she is giving it her all as best she can right now, but i nag her to step it up a bit more.
Given my trust in CKT as a therapy, we have been using this in many ways. We used it to determine the correct foods for her to create an alkaline body and to ensure this sugar loving, anaerobic cancer doesn't get what it wants.
So a specialised/tailored diet has been created for her along with using it to determine what supplements and dietary supports she needs
Thus my sister has me on her case, keeping her positive, focused on health, following the regime and then if that isn't enough having the cheek to get her to drink turmeric, bicarb, slippery elm, milk thistle, mistletoe,Vit C, Vit D and a plethora of supportive measures, all determined by CKT
She has the excellent support of her family who are fully engaged in getting her health back!
The hospital have allowed her to have pure oxygen to help in oxygenating the body and thus aiming for a detrimental effect on the cancer cells.
Not all cancers are oxygen hating, the majority are and thrive in low oxygen and acidic bodies. My sister's condition seems to have started when she was so anaemic that she needed a blood transfusion, and had been for sometime, a condition missed by her GP! Could this be one of the factors that let it develop? I say one of, as cancer is complex and hides in the body, so I feel that it is the right set of circumstances that come together to allow it to develop, especially perhaps if it was as a result of a virus that the body failed to deal with properly.
Maintaining a healthy immune system is essential of course to life and good health, yet we compromise it in so many ways, by poor nutrition, vaccinations, antibiotics etc etc
It may be a lesson never to dismiss anaemia quite so lightly also, as does often happen for women.
It is not an easy option to engage in this approach, but all the time it is supporting the healthy cells and spoiling the party for the unhealthy cells. There are no guarantees with anything, but at least this method focuses on health, it doesn't give the cancer any attention at all and supports the immune system.
It is very often the case that people talk of fighting cancer, but who wants to go to war with their own body. It is best ignored
We have used CKT to help treat the emotions that can screw up our bodies and to support the body in many ways, initiating the changes that are needed. We can hold emotion in our bodies that in our conscious mind would make no sense to us, and for my sister, i found her overiding emotion to be grief, and grief is very often linked to the lungs, exactly where her problem lays.
Good emotional health is crucial to good physical well being of course
Keeping positive! crucial, but so hard for the person concerned. It is easy for those around to give the advice and keep the motivation going, but life is a lonely journey really and not one of us can even begin to know what that must feel like.
So the other night, I drew my sister a picture of her body and it's organs and we ticked all the healthy ones and all the healthy parts and in comparison there are far more healthy parts than unhealthy ones and that is what we need to focus on and especially at those dark moments at 4am when you wake and all the thoughts start zooming in, that is when you need that inner strength to turn up the positivity dial.
You see it in the face, that even when all around are sharing a joke or talking about the everyday things in life, her thoughts have gone to that dark place and that is when you have to help turn it around.
This week sees visits back to the hospital for her and i suppose they will want to talk chemotherapy.
She knows that if this is the route she wants to try, then we can still support the body as much as possible, but it is harder for the body to cope when the chemo starts to weaken all the cells and not just the cancerous ones. Cancer cells tend to have tougher cell walls than our normal body cells, which is why the delicate cells of the hair are some of the first to go when chemo starts and hair loss follows. The healthy cells will need more support, but what ever route she ops for, the natural medicine approach thus far will have given her a good start.
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