Around 1998, my mom got a "cancer" diagnosis. It was the scariest and the saddest news for me, as at that time, I had no clue about how our body operates, toxins, the environmental effects, essential oils, our mind and spirit. All I knew - I wanted my mom to live.
To backtrack, before cancer, my mom got diabetes. I read books on what foods to eat to support the pancreas to balance the blood sugar. I told my mom all that info. Yet, she replied that she wasn't good at taking care of herself. Others - yes. That was so wrong, as what followed were agonizing years of conventional medicine voluntary abuse.
As we didn't know what to do, we turned to conventional medicine, even though we never read anywhere that it promised recovery. We knew the medicine was toxic and had side effects. On top of it, my mother grew up and lived for the most part rejecting medicine until she got diagnosed with diabetes in early 1980's, when she almost died of high blood sugar intoxication. Thanks to her will power and our quick actions, she survived, luckily, that time the conventional medicine doctor helped us.
My mother got a colon cancer. She was initially against conventional medicine treatments. However, we couldn't offer her any other solutions. How ironic... treating someone with poisons - that was our solution. Trusting and relying on someone else to take care of our loved one...
It took us a few years to realize that my mom was only getting worse. The pain and humiliation, insensitivity of doctors - it makes me want to throw up writing about it. She had a few surgeries to remove the cancerous part of the colon. Tests followed to check if she still had cancer. Every time, we stressed out awaiting the results. NO - YOU CAN'T CUT OUT CANCER, AS CANCER IS NOT WHAT ATTACKS YOU - YOUR BODY IS TRYING TO CLEANSE, BURN, ISOLATE THE TOXINS AWAY FROM YOUR CIRCULATION. THE SURGERY IS AN INSULT AND A HARD BLOW TO YOUR SYSTEM! SURGERY DOES NOT REMOVE TOXINS, NOR DO MEDICATIONS OR RADIATION.
My mother's colon was removed, replaced by a bag. Eventually, her stomach closed up, as the stiches from the surgery inflamed. At that point, even the doctors didn't recommend the surgery. But my mom wanted to live, and we had one more surgery.
I sat with her through the night, keeping her mouth moist with a wet gauze. She was not allowed to drink, but a little ice was ok. She couldn't press the button when she needed more pain medication - I was there for her...
What happened next? She did live or rather continued the ordeal. She had that moment away from the endless stays at the hospitals, out in the park, watching the swans... She did visit my son, who she loved more than anything. And then, she was ready to end all this humiliation. She injected herself with the high dose of insulin and peacefully started falling asleep.
Of course, I had to ruin all that, so naïve and unprepared, "saving" her to inhumane suffering that followed. It did cost me years to accept and forgive myself and move on. I had a 5-year old son to raise and wanted to be a good-looking mom for him :) My shoulders were giving in, my heart was breaking. No, I didn't go anywhere near the conventional medicine - I took it upon myself to get my spirits and health back.
The physical part was easy, as I was always into outdoors. The emotional part took many years. What helped initially to release the burden was the Jin Shin Do acupressure session - I cried buckets out. The practitioner offered an invaluable advice to me - "your mom wouldn't want you to suffer". My neck and shoulders released and I stopped having agonizing dreams seeing my mom's distorted from pain face, asking me why I saved her.
Raising my son and taking care of my family, I realized that I had to learn all I could about the natural healing. I took classes, swallowed a ton of books, shared what I learned and helped many people. And my conclusion is this:
LISTEN TO YOUR BODY - IT WILL TELL YOU WHERE YOU NEED EXTRA HELP. IF YOU NEGLECTED YOURSELF FOR YEARS, IT MAY TAKE LONGER TO GET INTO BALANCE. PAIN - IS THE SIGNAL TO YOUR SYSTEM TO DO THE WORK, NOSIA - THE TOXICITY IN YOUR SYSTEM, INFLAMMATION - THE BODY BURNING TOXINS AND ACUMULATIONS INTERFERING WITH THE NORMAL FUNCTION, and so on... THE CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE LABELS AND TARGETS THESE SYMPTOMS TO SUPRESS THE HEALING.
EVERYTHING OUR BODY DOES IS TO SUSTAIN ITSELF.
After my mom's ordeal, I decided to let more people know about the toxicity of the foods, share my knowledge of natural health "therapies", culminating in writing a book. I feel, I did my part, and now can concentrate on growing as a musician, enjoying my life. I still share useful information almost daily on Facebook, but this is not my focus anymore. I know, every person has to learn on their own, and I hope, the information I put out there, which was at one point seen by almost a million people, will find its way back through all the "friendly " fact-checkers :)
TO LIFE!
LOVE, ALWAYS,
YOUR REV. EUGENIYA