I am afraid that I cannot tell you anything good about hysterectomy except that it opened my eyes to the medical profession's all too often shabby treatment of patients. I can tell you that I had women around me who said zip, nada, zilch against it before my surgery, but were quick enough to agree with me about it afterwards.
One book that I read explained that from primitive times onward women had to depend on men for their and their children's very survival. This put women in the position of always competing against other women. The book was suggesting that this primal instinct to "best" another woman is still within us. I'd feel better if I could discount it, but I can't.
As to the breast cancer, this month's AARP has an article, "The Anticaner Lifestyle," about an up and coming, ambitious physician and neuroscience researcher who just coincidentally filled in for a no show at a project only to have a brain scan unexpectedly reveal a cancerous brain tumor. Estimates gave him only a few years to live...that was 16 years ago.
He has used his advanced training to stave off the cancer and he has written a book about how he is doing it. The book is "Anticancer: A New Way of Life" by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Here is my favorite quote from the article, "The first thing that I learned is that we all carry cancer cells in us, even if only a few. But we also have natural defenses that usually prevent these cells from becoming an aggressive disease. These defenses include our immune system; the bodily functions that control inflammation; foods that reduce the growth of blood vessels needed by tumors.
More than one third of Americans will develop detectable cancer. But nearly two thirds will not; their natural defenses will have kept the disease from taking hold. To survive my brain cancer, I knew, I'd need to learn how to strengthen my own protective systems."
I hope that this in some small way helps you. I have said a prayer for you.
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I am afraid that I cannot tell you anything good about hysterectomy except that it opened my eyes to the medical profession's all too often shabby treatment of patients. I can tell you that I had women around me who said zip, nada, zilch against it before my surgery, but were quick enough to agree with me about it afterwards.
April 7, 2009 - 9:56amOne book that I read explained that from primitive times onward women had to depend on men for their and their children's very survival. This put women in the position of always competing against other women. The book was suggesting that this primal instinct to "best" another woman is still within us. I'd feel better if I could discount it, but I can't.
As to the breast cancer, this month's AARP has an article, "The Anticaner Lifestyle," about an up and coming, ambitious physician and neuroscience researcher who just coincidentally filled in for a no show at a project only to have a brain scan unexpectedly reveal a cancerous brain tumor. Estimates gave him only a few years to live...that was 16 years ago.
He has used his advanced training to stave off the cancer and he has written a book about how he is doing it. The book is "Anticancer: A New Way of Life" by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Here is my favorite quote from the article, "The first thing that I learned is that we all carry cancer cells in us, even if only a few. But we also have natural defenses that usually prevent these cells from becoming an aggressive disease. These defenses include our immune system; the bodily functions that control inflammation; foods that reduce the growth of blood vessels needed by tumors.
More than one third of Americans will develop detectable cancer. But nearly two thirds will not; their natural defenses will have kept the disease from taking hold. To survive my brain cancer, I knew, I'd need to learn how to strengthen my own protective systems."
I hope that this in some small way helps you. I have said a prayer for you.
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