I met I, an ovarian cancer patient, at the ayurvedic master's in Dec 2007. We were both very sick when K brought us there and we started on ayurvedic medicine at the same time.
She is very much younger than me and her two boys are probably around the age of 10.
She was already on chemo then, and I remembered that initially, she had a pallor complexion, but after a few weeks, her colour had improved.
While she was on chemo, her onco had changed her drugs to stronger ones as her cancer was unresponsive and her markers kept climbing.
Then, I heard that she had gone on to try different remedies, such as electric eel, recommended by other people. Subsequently, for reasons best known to her, she left the AM's place.
Her niece, HL, was also being treated by the AM. We found out from HL that I's onco had determined that she had another cancer. From HL's description in Mandarin, I gathered that it had something to do with the lymphoma.
Some months ago, from HL, I learnt that she was making progress.
Last week, I heard that HL had gone to beg the AM to try and save I, who is now very sick. Her abdomen was swollen and she was on morphine.
We found out that on her friend's recommendation, she had even gone to Malaysia to try some remedy.
Herbal medicine takes time and healing is a slow process. It depends on us to know if the medicine works for us. We have to be patient and monitor the progress ourselves. As long as we feel that a remedy works for us, I think we should stick to it instead of hopping around.
Some months back, someone suggested that I should stopped the AM's treatment and go on something else. I have been doing well under the AM's treatment and I am sorry to say I cannot accept that kind of advice, also, I can be very stubborn when I know what is good for me.
Fighting cancer is a long battle and being impatient does not help. Could it be that I's impatience and desperation caused her condition to deteriorate to this state or could it be that her cancer(s-?) are so formidable?
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