1. "Very sad. Hope it's a wake up call for some." In response to Reply # 0
Cancer is a complicated, horrible disease. There's a lot of rightful distrust in our medical system, etc - but seeing people with the means for real treatment and care discard the advice they get from their medical professionals for some hippy dippy shit is heartbreaking.
2. "It is an I don't want to be too critical. " In response to Reply # 1
Because if she made the decision she wanted to put quality of life over a super intrusive, painful medical experience and was at peace if it meant a shorter life, I can totally understand that. I think our medical system often puts too much emphasis on quantity of life (and quality of medical insurance) over quality of life.
However, it sounds like here it was more like she thought she could beat it with home remedies and was surprised by the outcome.
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3. "Right, which is a good point." In response to Reply # 2
I'm not going to fault someone for making themselves more comfortable with a terminal illness, of course. But like you said - this feels more like what Steve Jobs did. If she was trying to beat it, it becoming Stage IV was absolutely preventable.
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4. "had a coworker try hippy dippy remedies" In response to Reply # 1
he died quickly.
I get wanting to heal yourself but this is cancer.
you aren't going to eat and drink your way to being cancer free.
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8. "RE: had a coworker try hippy dippy remedies" In response to Reply # 4
>he died quickly.
>I get wanting to heal yourself but this is cancer. > >you aren't going to eat and drink your way to being cancer >free. >
and that's ok. i kinda hate seeing y'all call it 'hippy dippy'. we each get to place our own value on what we consider to be "living". like someone said above, quality over quantity is sometimes what matters more to some folks. why must we mock it?
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11. "I don't mean to mock it, but..." In response to Reply # 8
I think there's a significant difference between trying to minimize the pain one would go through and thinking that the remedies are actually going to beat the disease.
It's anyone's personal decision to make, but if they think it'll actually kill off the cancer...well...
12. "What's crazy is, if you listen to the actual interview, it's not as bad ..." In response to Reply # 0 Wed Oct-23-24 10:10 AM by Buddy_Gilapagos
sounds.
The People's article is framed in such a way to sound like she decided to forgo medical treatment for home remedies and better sleep, but listening to the interview it sounds more like she just wasn't prepared to have a double mastectomy when the doctors recommended it but she did decide to clean up her life (more sleep, no liquor), try alternative medicine AND undergo chemotherapy. Sounds like she always remained under a doctor's care (her sister is a doctor who also is a cancer survivor). The fear of mammograms causing cancer was earlier in her life but it also sounds like she realized it was wrong at some point and started regularly getting them.
Like the People's article isn't a lie but it emphasizes the 3 or 4 craziest things she said when she said ALOT of things (and yeah the crazy things she said are crazy things to say).
I decided to listen to the actual interview because I didn't think Ananda Lewis was as simple as the article made her sound.
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