[2bgop]

I'm not LEO, and I never post in this forum, but I have been through two rounds of cancer. Much of the advice you get it is very well meaning and practical, but also extremely hard to implement. I had tons of people tell me I was going to be fine, without even having a clue what type of cancer I had or knowing anything about its progress, they just didn't know what else to say. I also had people give me was insanely bad advice, stop all treatment and just smoke pot was fairly common, drinking apple cider vinegar was also surprising popular of among the "never had cancer myself" crowd.

But I did have a fantastic oncologist, one of many I saw, tell me, "there has never been a good day to have cancer, but there have never been a better day than today". I am almost at 4 years with no signs of cancer, still something I think about often, but it gets easier all the time.

 

[2bgop]

I had Hodgkins Lymphoma 22 years ago. I had a lot of the same types of responses (you will be fine), including one ******* who said I was probably not going to make it (and the government had the cure).

I have told this story hear before: My treatment was chemo every 14 days (luckily, the side effects only lasted 13 days) for 6 months. Around treatment #3, The chemo nurse told me that I would start losing my hair. A friend of mine hwo had been through several bouts with Leukemia as a teenager (he has been in remission for over 30 years) told me that I should buzz my hair short, because longer (heavier) hair falls out in clumps. A buzz would let it fall out more uniformly.

Off to the barber I go. I had been going there for 15 years at that point, and he was a bit of a wacky health nut. I asked for a buzz (the first of my life) and he refused. I told him why, and he started asking questions about my cancer (enlarged lymph nodes in my neck and night sweats were the symptoms).

He gives me this look, then tells me he knows how to cure it. Hydrogen peroxide. He had been expounding its virtues for years, so I shouldn't have been surprised. He instructed me to inject HO directly into my affected lymph nodes, and it would destroy the cancer cells.

I told him that I didn't think my oncologist would be happy if I did that, and he said "don't tell him".

I said "I think he will figure it out from the autopsy. Just give me the buzz cut".

That was my last hair cut. I've been shaving my head ever since. My brothers and father continued to go there for years, and he would ask about my progress. My dad asked me after one visit why I never used his "cure".

What I always found odd about the people telling me to do stupid **** to cure my cancer, NONE of them had ever had cancer and used their home remedy to treat it.