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Wonderful water therapies – Swimming, Part 1

Nov 27

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Mr. Chen, age 36, is a patient of gout. Since he started swimming, he couldn’t stop this wonderful habit. Although he didn’t know how to swim at first and his swimming postures were funny, after a few weeks of practices, he can already swim 700-800 meters. He felt a little shameful learning swimming at his age, but he found swimming is the first exercise ever that he really interested. Other than fulfilling his interest, swimming did help healing his gout problem. He’s been taking medicines for gout for a few years. After he learned swimming, his gout seemed to have healed. The medicines were also cut to half of what he was taking by the doctor. His mom noticed that his health got improved a lot. Mr. Chen always got flu before but now he’s much stronger and never caught a flu or even cold.

Mrs. Xiu was really negative after a motorcycle accident, especially her legs weren’t able to walk, and she also lost her law suit against the person who caused the accident. All these made her turned very blue towards her life. She felt her life got ruined and even thought about committing suicide. After two surgeries on her legs and installed artificial joints, she started to learn how to walk again with a walking stick, trying to rebuild her life. However, her son and daughter had to take care of her in turns because they live and study far from home. She felt really like a burden to her family. Every day she wish she could take care of herself, but she can’t even stand without support. A few days before her son go for military service, he brought Mrs. Xiu to swimming for the very first time. At first she wasn’t interested, she was thinking to come back in an hour or two. However, once she tried, she loved it. She even asked her son, “Why didn’t you bring me to swim earlier?”

Mrs. Xiu started to go swimming by herself since her son left. She didn’t feel lonely because she found a new social life in swimming pool, and an interesting exercise that helped her legs recover. At first she started really slow, but after the help from the coach and other swimmers, she quickly learned all different styles of from breaststroke to freestyle. She started to walk better as well. At first her family just thought swimming helped curing her legs quick. Half year later, when Mrs. Xiu son went swimming with her, he found that her mom can swim almost faster than he could – a pretty big body swimming like a fish. He said her mom became a total different person, sort of like “resurrected”. Mrs. Xiu, of course, really happy about the effects of this “therapy”. Now she can go to the doctor’s office by herself. She met another patient who replaced the joints at around the same time, still walking with a stick. She immediately shared her wonderful experience with swimming with that patient. Now she goes swimming everyday whether is sunny or rainy. She drives 30 minutes with her new motorcycle to the swimming pool. She doesn’t mind that because swimming totally changed her life.

(to be cont’d)

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An inspiring story of alternative healing from an American cancer specialist

Nov 12

Posted by conrad in Cancer (see specific entries), Inspiring Stories, Lung Cancer | No Comments

There was a famous American doctor of cancer. His mother had lung cancer. Her lung cancer already expanded to bones and brain, so chemotherapy didn’t work. This doctor was very clear that his mom’s life is not going to last long. But he still asked a European alternative healing cancer center for a consultation. Every treatments this cancer center do didn’t get approved by mainstream medicine. As a cancer specialist himself, he would never recommend any patient to try something like this. But as a son, he would try everything to heal his mom. So they flew to Europe for this alternative treatment.

The people who worked in this center all look energetic, and very optimistic. These suffering mother and son started to get a little optimistic as well stimulated by these people. However they’re still very suspicious when the treatment starts. Few days later, they feel a lot happier and much more optimistic. This center doesn’t give medicines or chemotherapy, because whoever comes in already did the maximum chemical or medicine treatment one could take. Patients here take a treatment through a special designed diet with powder and herbs. It was heard that these nutrients are what the patient lacks. The whole treatment includes group treatment with other cancer patients and meditation as well. With positive energy and hope, his mother feels confident and happy. This feeling is so different from waiting for death in the hospital.

Few weeks later in the middle of the treatment, this mother passed away in sleep. From the mainstream medical point of view, all the flying cost, efforts and time, the fake hope that built up during the treatment seemed to make this trip totally worthless. However, this doctor, as a son as well, didn’t regret what he did. He said, “Science can’t give me, my mother and my family the calmness, the peace and the satisfaction during this period of time. ”

This story told me that whether we choose alternative healing or not, the attitude towards it must be very clear – it’s a treatment that we believe in, whether it succeeds or not. Then we should be able to find our peace.

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A little chicken soup story against Cancer

Aug 8

Posted by conrad in Cancer (see specific entries), Inspiring Stories, Lung Cancer | No Comments

So today’s post isn’t about any healing, or may it is…it’s an inspiring story from Taiwan. It’s a little  chicken soup story.

In Taiwan there’s a couple who sell chickens on the market. Mr. He has a healthy face and doesn’t look like he’s almost 60 already. Behind the big smile of this couple, there’s an unknown tough history. Mr. Ho got lung cancer 10 years ago. When Mrs. He recalled that treatment period, she still feels hurting. Mrs. He said, “I was so worried about him after he had the surgery. Since he started the chemotherapy, he got no stamina. He could only lie on a bed or on a couch. I could only cry all day.  I just couldn’t help worrying about him and couldn’t even sleep at night. ”

She said in order to keep the stamina of Mr. Ho for his chemotherapy, she stayed in the kitchen watching the stove for 8 hours every day just to stew a bowl of condensed chicken soup. “At first somebody told me that I can’t feed a cancer patient too nourished food,” Mrs. He said. “So he started to complain as he’s feeling weaker everyday – and even said before he died of cancer, he’d have died of starvation. I was feeling so bad and I thought since it’s already a late stage of his lung cancer, I’ll just cook whatever you like and nutritious. So after chemotherapy I just kept feeding him the “condensed” chicken soup and amazingly his body has been recovering well day by day. Even now our doctor is still very surprised Mr. He still survives healthily!” So she still keep stewing this condensed soup for her husband everyday for over 10 years.

Although Mrs. He’s been taking care of him, when Mr. He found out his lung cancer was already third stage, he almost wanted to give up because chemotherapy was really tough – and no guarantee that it would work. So he wanted to give up himself to “free up” his wife. However, his wife, Mrs. He, still stayed beside him and encouraged him. She walked in the park with him and talked everyday with lots of love and care. Finally he got enlightened and told himself he had to survive. “At first I really decided to let go of my life and I was in bad mood every day. I got terrible temper towards my wife. There was a time she couldn’t stand it and we had a big quarrel. However, after that fight, I realized that if I can still live, it’s already a blessing. Now he keep telling other cancer patients to be optimistic, feed themselves  well after Chemotherapy, even if they can’t swallow – just don’t give up.

It’s hard to imagine a woman can stew the same soup everyday for 10 years just to support her loved ones. They’ve supported each other to fight cancer for over 10 years. It’s definitely easy to say than do. They concluded with their own experience: during chemotherapy the patients really have to save their energy to fight cancer. Of course, support and love from the family definitely help.

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