Avoid Cancer

Folks, I don't know how else to say it.... just avoid cancer.

There is no cure that is better than the disease itself. Oh to be sure, chemo will do it some of the time, but in the end, the chemo causes it's own issues within the body and you pay for those both at the time and thereafter becayse, after all, chemo IS cumulative.

Meaning - over the life of the treatment protocol assigned, each time you have a chemo treatment, it will be a little bit worse than the last time. MAybe the first one is just tiring and a wee bit of nausea...the second one, a bit more. And so on and so on.....

Nutrition is very important during this. The patient WILL NOT WANT TO EAT.

Please do not let this deter you - forge on and feed them pretty much whatever they can tolerate. But make them eat. And please, I beg of you DO NOT OVER HYDRATE. Hydration is important. VERY. But too much? Not good.

Over hydration without proper nutrition, hell... ANY nutrition, will land you in an 18 day minimum hospital stay with IV Sodium drips, potassium pills and charting your own input and output over the course of your days.

It means your kidneys will not work properly.

All this AFTER a stay in ICU under heavy sedation and a ventilator does not make for a happy patient. Or family or caretaker.

So smokers - quit. Sun goddesses - GO INSIDE! Drinkers - cut back - substance abusers - GET HELP.

But by all means - do what you have to in order to avoid this disease!