WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 01, 2010
Thoughts on Michael Douglas and Cancer Treatment
Cancer is awful, obviously, but so is the treatment.
I really appreciate how Michael Douglas is being very open and honest about that. When I read this article today I felt for him.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/01/wednesdays-intriguing-people-23/?hpt=T2
Radiation burning the mouth, not able to take solids. As if getting cancer isn't enough, you must endure this kind of pain.
Two years ago I participated in a day at Universal Studios as a volunteer guide for kids who had or had recovered from different kinds of cancers, mainly blood cancers. One of the 10 year olds was bubbling around as a ten year old girl would, so happy. I naively said to her mom, "Wow, she's recovered really well!" Her mom retorted, "She has the bones of a 70 year old woman. She has osteoperosis." I crumbled inside. I think that was the first day I put a face with the physical cost of treatment.
We are currently supporting a researcher who is studying how to stop and reverse tumor growth, how tumors get into the bone, and her research is also helping gain scientific knowledge about osteoperosis and breaking new ground in terms of finding new treatments. I believe I was drawn to this particular scientist because of the sweet 10 year old girl at Universal. I got it that day. I realized how damaging, while life saving, our current treatment options can be.
I really appreciate how Michael Douglas is being very open and honest about that. When I read this article today I felt for him.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/01/wednesdays-intriguing-people-23/?hpt=T2
Radiation burning the mouth, not able to take solids. As if getting cancer isn't enough, you must endure this kind of pain.
Two years ago I participated in a day at Universal Studios as a volunteer guide for kids who had or had recovered from different kinds of cancers, mainly blood cancers. One of the 10 year olds was bubbling around as a ten year old girl would, so happy. I naively said to her mom, "Wow, she's recovered really well!" Her mom retorted, "She has the bones of a 70 year old woman. She has osteoperosis." I crumbled inside. I think that was the first day I put a face with the physical cost of treatment.
We are currently supporting a researcher who is studying how to stop and reverse tumor growth, how tumors get into the bone, and her research is also helping gain scientific knowledge about osteoperosis and breaking new ground in terms of finding new treatments. I believe I was drawn to this particular scientist because of the sweet 10 year old girl at Universal. I got it that day. I realized how damaging, while life saving, our current treatment options can be.
1 comment:
There is a story of a silversmith holding the metal to the flame and closely watching it. Someone asked him, how did he know when the silver was ready. He said, "When I see my image in it."
I think God keeps refining us so we will look more and more like Him. People are refined in different ways...mine happened to be cancer.
God is sovereign and in control. His ways are higher than my ways.
My Mama always said, "God puts you on your back so you will look to Him."
Willamina
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