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Does Strephon Have Cancer?

Yes, I just got x-rays at the university hospital in Nijmegen, which is considered one of the best in the Netherlands, that the radiologist sees what looks like a cancer tumor on my right lung. And some clustering around the lymph nodes there also.

So emergency: next week on my 75th birthday they want me to come in for tests during two different days.

Reading up on this stuff on the Web some of their diagnostics look invasive, as well as the treatments to follow, and curiously little from the medical profession about any cures.

Observation: the docs don’t have to justify their treatments with scientific statistics and case studies that show cures or stabilization’s. They give info on their diagnostics and their treatments, including surgery, radiation, chemo, and other treatments they do. But I don’t find cure rates and what they mean.

Strephon’s reactions today, the first day.

I had already been to the doctor last week suffering the cough that has lasted for months now and we thought due to Reflux, the digestive juices coming up into the throat due mostly to stress and aging.

But I went to the doctor again a week later after taking her prescribed medicine which is to reduce acid levels in my digestive system I guess.

The point was I had one really big coughing fit last weak that caused pains in my overly large stomach. Maybe my big stomach, despite eating less is due to a root cause.

Can one expect cures at age 75, or is my body doing its inevitable breakdown?

1. Decisions to be made: How much to go with hospital medicine and their standard procedures, and what results can I expect from their diagnosis and treatments?
2. Attitude to watch out for: Watch out not to fall into the medical attitude that they feel for themselves that they are right in their procedures. Then I go passive.

The university doctors scheduled me in next week for all their tests. Do the tests themselves influence the ones giving the tests, and also the designated patient if he is not very conscious to set his limits?

Designated Patient Syndrome: This is my term for when a human being is given the label by the group of being dysfunctional, out of sorts with the rest of the group, or malfunctioning in the body.

Virgina Satir startled us California psychologists by pointing out that in families there is always a designated patient, an outsider, who is made the scape goat of the family. The rest of the family feels healthy and normal if they can prove that one member of the family is not.

Then the family patient acts out being the dysfunctional member of the family, and the family itself is perceived as whole and therefore happy.

The Strephon Facts So Far

I found no cure so far for the coughing off and on for three months and the discharge coming into my throat. The weather has been constantly windy, rainy and cold here in the Netherlands where I live. Not good. Not good at all.

So now the x-ray proves that I have a tumor called malignant already by the doctors. Strephon is in the doorway of the labeled patient syndrome.

I already told a couple of my friends that I have been diagnosed with cancer at the University medical center.  Help, why did I go to the big establishment?

Now what do I do?

The Big Decision

Enter the system right away or not?

It’s dangerous to wait. The cancer is growing, they are likely to say. Get the tests anyway. Then after that and their diagnosis take their treatment. Sign in for surgery, for chemo therapy, for radiation treatment.

What is the alternative?

If I refuse to be the ‘designated patient’ and don’t go through their diagnosis and their treatments, then the cancer gets me right away and kills me soon, is the basic statement on their part.

One decision: refuse their diagnosis and treatment, or take the diagnosis and refuse the treatment as having not much chance for success.

I know this route because a long term client of mine years ago in California had the tests and was diagnosed with breast cancer and had both her breasts cut off, and then after when she healed of that did live a different life. So she survived treatment done in her early forties.

I am 75 with less vitality and power to heal. What do I do?

Alternative Treatment: this means I am largely on my own. I search the Internet for alternative cures, which info so far is hard to come by. I do a radical treatment myself, like a grape juice fast of two weeks or more, or big herbal treatments like Closs used in his big herbal book he wrote fifty or more years ago.

Issue Of Staying Alive

What I thought wrong about the Book on the guru guy’s wife who died of breast cancer, Grace and Grit, was that she did all the medical treatments and died five years later, which was the statistical time to die if she had had no medical treatments.

So she lived five painful years caused by chemo and radiation therapy. She was rich from her father’s money so she traveled to the best doctors in the world at the time to take their treatments.

I challenged her attitude, and that of her husband, that they tried to keep her alive, or even get well, when they must have known medical treatments were not working well for people.

What if she had just accepted that she had breast cancer and that she would not agree to invasive treatments to her body, but treat her body well, seek natural healing, change her lifestyle and especially her attitude, and let it all happen as a natural process?

Would this attitude change of giving up control have been her best medicine, wanting to live, but not forcing the issue, but living serenely from that day forward that she received her diagnosis?

Now it’s a similar question for myself. Change my lifestyle where I can. Use this challenge well. But don’t try and impose control, that I am somehow to try and beat or prolong life against death, death by cancer, or whatever.

It’s the way of the synchronicity fate. The teacher must keep becoming the student of his own teachings. What better way that for the teacher, myself, to suffer the same issues that I have helped others face, even where other therapists would not dare to go?

Gambling With Life Using Death

It’s gambling, that’s what it is. You receive your diagnosis of cancer, and the medical attitude, let’s use our diagnostics and treatments on you to give you a slight chance that your cancer will go into remission.

1. But will it?
2. What are their truthful statistics?
3. Do they have any?

Don’t let hope cloud your awareness.

In publishing, seven out of ten books fail to make money when published.

Do the writers, editors and publishers see this as failure? No, they see it as success.

So if seven out of ten cancer patients die, then why get the medical treatment? I am going to die anyway at my age sooner or later?

How many lung cancer patients go into remission, are cancer free for five years?

I’ve yet to find those statistics. They certainly are not presented along with the treatments.

Why go medical? What’s in it for me? Just thinking out loud at this moment, the first day of the medical diagnosis.

Each Day Is A Step In Time

What will the second day bring, tomorrow?

What is your diagnosis of my fate, my issue, anything?

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