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| Ranjan in a submarine March 2015 |
It has been long since I wrote on this blog as it is an actual case of 'no news is good news'! However I pick up my virtual pen again because of a very scary trend I am seeing around me that may become fashion and then routine as it suits vested interests and fills greedy pockets. I am talking about the second elective surgery that Angelina Jolie has undergone. After opting for double mastectomy, she has undergone surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes again to ward off a risk of getting ovarian cancer. This is something I cannot understand and accept. I speak with responsibility because after having lost my parents to cancer, and having my husband diagnosed for Stage II lymphoma, I have spent all my waking hours finding about what we know as cancer and the findings have demystified the rogue and turned the elephant in a room to at most a fly! What is even more disturbing is a medical advertisement on Indian TV propagating the option of elective prophylactic surgery to ward off cancer. When a celebrity endorses something, it catches the eye of predators who set to work. So if we were to take this idea to the absurd why not remove stomach, liver, lungs and anything else that may become home to cancer cells. And let me tell you something should any one of us take certain tests, we would all be detected with cancer, as each one of us has cancer cells in us and thus is predisposed to cancer. As conventional medicine has ensured that many of us are kept in the dark about alternative therapies that range from diet and lifestyle change to herbs and potions, we can be duped into taking extreme measures that will do us more harm than good.
Everyone literally has cancer! Our cells make mistakes and these mistakes make the cells look like cancer. Mercifully we have been gifted an extraordinary body that has the capacity of correcting its mistakes and cells are known to commit suicide when needed. Sometimes it does not happen and that is when cancer has we know it occurs.
What I discovered while dealing with Ranjan's cancer is that cancer is caused by lifestyle and deep emotional stress and thus can be reversed by changes in the these. Everyone of us has more than 3000 cancer cells growing in our body. Cancer need not be feared and our immune system, provided its is healthy and spot on, is the best arsenal to deal with these cells. We must ensure that our immune system is intact and change our diets and lifestyle. This blog is my journey with cancer and I think it is time I published it as a book so that others may benefit from my experience and not fall for absurd and dangerous options.
I am often asked about how Ranjan is feeling and find myself wondering why I am being asked this question over and over again. And then the penny drops: he had/has cancer. And cancer is the big C, the one everyone fears or is made to fear for rather dubious reasons. I too once feared the beast as it took away those I most love, my mama and papa and then had the audacity to strike again. But this time I was ready to meet it head on. I was not going to fall for all this fear business. The so called big C was no more than the big F (flu) or the big I (infection)! In order to that I had to arm myself if as much knowledge as I could lay my hands on, particularly the ones that are purposely hidden from us. Luck was on my side this time as the Internet had shattered all barriers to knowledge.
To the question how is Ranjan, the answer is great and he is in..... fill in the blank! Rajan has never been travelling so much for business and pleasure. As I write these words he is with his best buddy in Melbourne ready to watch the World Cup Finals; he was in Mauritius last week when went on a submarine dive, in Thailand the week before playing Golf, and will be in Indonesia next month then in the US and then I have lost count. It is impossible for a recluse like me to keep up with him. I am constantly packing his suitcase and medicine packets as he tends to be forgetful like all men are.
After the last chemo/petscan combo in January 2013, we opted out of the one size fit all protocol that is the best on offer by the medical fraternity who has arbitrarily decided that it takes 5 years for them to declare you cured. For five years you have to be subjected to scans and tests and to living in the state called 'remission'. Having cancer in my genes, I was offered this remission business 20 years ago when I was told to have check ups every year. I refused and here I am hale, hearty and kicking. The only thing I did 20 years ago is change my diet.
For me Ranjan is cured of whatever he had. We do occasional blood work to keep a check. He has his Tibetan medicine to keep his immune system spot on, we eat healthy and almost vegan and have some supplements. That is it.
I just wanted to share this as I think it is time we realised what is causing our immune system to break down and avoiding the possible causes. Most of them are related to the food industry and the chemical load we ingest. Add to this lack of exercise and you have a recipe for disaster. Stay away from them and you are on the road to good health.
