Healing is cultivating optimism & faith
Given a choice between prolonging your life for a few weeks and getting a real solution so that you live a long happy life, which one would you pick? If you knew that the difference between the two was that you had to actually invest in your self, make changes, and work at it, would you finally believe that you’re worthy of it?
If the first choice was an unproven expensive drug, would you take it just because the MDs held out some hope that you might survive? Jonathan Kay recently wrote an article called: “Kimm Fletcher’s death was tragic. But Ontario was correct not to pay for her Avastin”.
Here are the points he made:
1. A decade ago, the FDA approved an exciting new intravenous drug that fights the spread of cancer by slowing the growth of new blood vessels.
2. It‘s one of the world’s most commonly used anti-cancer drugs, despite the fact that the annual per-patient cost of the drug is about $100,000.
3. But it’s not nearly as effective as they hoped it to be; it treats only a few cancers.
4. Researchers have found that it only extends life for those cancers for only an average of 3.8 months. (Why is something with a dismal survival rate so commonly used and obviously so commonly recommended?)
5. Chemotherapy supplemented by Avastin raises the cost of treatment by a WHOPPING 30 times.
6. Besides that, there are serious side effects from this drug, including bleeding/hemorrhage, high blood pressure, nose bleeds, blood clots in veins or arteries, holes (perforations) in the stomach or intestines, and wound-healing complications.
7. Kimm Fletcher met with the Ontario government to ask them to fund the $100,000 for her. They refused due to a 2011 judgment about Avastin’s efficacy: that the benefits of the drug has to exceed its cost.
8. Current studies don’t indicate if the drug alleviates symptoms or prolongs life.
It’s obvious that there is NO evidence that the drug provides a cure but doctors are still pushing it.
So, here’s someone (with their family) who thinks a drug will save her, in spite of the evidence. The MDs treating her obviously “believed” that this was the answer to her problems, again in spite of the evidence. But the real solution is never that simple. First, you have to know why disease happened to you and it’s not as simplistic as “you have a brain tumour” as in this case.
Any injury or disease in the head speaks to the mental aspect of your life: Stubbornness. Lack of clear thinking. Memory lapses (or wanting to forget). Severe Indecision. Confusion.
Headaches are due to self criticism and fear.
Trying to treat the symptoms instead of the true cause is not going to help you overcome disease. When you become clear in your mind, in any disease or injury, then you become well. In order to heal, you can’t have hope and fear at the same time. You must always cultivate faith and optimism instead. That’s how you become strong enough to overcome disease. When you get out of the darkness that fear puts you, then you’ll truly come out of it well and happy!
Here’s the link to Jonathan Kay’s article: Kimm Fletcher’s death was tragic. But Ontario was correct not to pay for her Avastin
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