wanderlost
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This is sort of a spin -off of the church/illness thread as in spirituality and disease, but that thread came at an appropriate time for me after having a conversation with a friend the other day.
Brief (I'll try anyway) synopsis: my friend is very into natural remedies - almost to the point of derision toward modern medicine. Her daughter had a health issue that she tried to deal with naturally for about 2 years when she finally took her to an MD (my stepmom, btw). After recieving meds for her daughter my friend started doubting the medical advice she was given - and she and I sort of had an argument: my theory: what you did for the last two years clearly hasn't worked, why not give this a try and see? Her theory: the body knows how to heal itself and I don't like these medicines in my child....so we get onto a conversation regarding the wisdom of the body, modern medical practices etc.
Now her main source of "medical" advice comes from a BEST trained chiropractor, which I just can't understand that at all (<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.morter.com/),">http://www.morter.com/),</a> but whatever. So she told me that she asked her chiro-guru if he thought CF could be cured and he said yes. I asked her what she meant by cured and she told me she thought that the body knows how to be perfect, we just have to tune into that.
I felt like my head might explode at this point. I am one of the more "natural" Cf people I know - I do few meds, always have and have always believed in my body more than the CF diagnosis gives credit for. I eat well, whole foods, organics (always have). and I do believe that positive thinking is super importnat as is listening to the body and allowing the body a chance to heal itself before internvention, but I also realize that the small miracle of drugs like penicillians has contributed greatly to survival rates of the human species. At age 30 I also realize I'd be a fool to not deal appropriately with a progressive disease - while to me that doesn't mean checking into the hosital for a six week dose of gentimyacin, it also doesn't mean sitting on my yoga mat hoping enough om shanti oms will wash my CF away.
Anyway, I explained to her that Cf was GENETIC and I wondered how tapping into that wisdom might help change your genes and she just kept reiterating that she thought it was possible....it made me angry, as if she was insinuating that I could NOT have Cf if I wanted it badly enough (sort of like what started that religion illnes thread)
anyway, I don't know of this post is a rant or what, but how do you deal with convoluted thinking like this? Do you think there is any merit to her theory (as in, are we ALL just going about this disease the completely wrong way? - doubtful, no?) It made me change my opinion of this very old, dear friend as one who is sadly uneducated on how the body works - we aren't talking about the common cold here - and I wonder: do any of you believe this sort of thing, or along these lines of being able to "make" the body perfect with natural remedies and positive thinking and why?
Brief (I'll try anyway) synopsis: my friend is very into natural remedies - almost to the point of derision toward modern medicine. Her daughter had a health issue that she tried to deal with naturally for about 2 years when she finally took her to an MD (my stepmom, btw). After recieving meds for her daughter my friend started doubting the medical advice she was given - and she and I sort of had an argument: my theory: what you did for the last two years clearly hasn't worked, why not give this a try and see? Her theory: the body knows how to heal itself and I don't like these medicines in my child....so we get onto a conversation regarding the wisdom of the body, modern medical practices etc.
Now her main source of "medical" advice comes from a BEST trained chiropractor, which I just can't understand that at all (<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.morter.com/),">http://www.morter.com/),</a> but whatever. So she told me that she asked her chiro-guru if he thought CF could be cured and he said yes. I asked her what she meant by cured and she told me she thought that the body knows how to be perfect, we just have to tune into that.
I felt like my head might explode at this point. I am one of the more "natural" Cf people I know - I do few meds, always have and have always believed in my body more than the CF diagnosis gives credit for. I eat well, whole foods, organics (always have). and I do believe that positive thinking is super importnat as is listening to the body and allowing the body a chance to heal itself before internvention, but I also realize that the small miracle of drugs like penicillians has contributed greatly to survival rates of the human species. At age 30 I also realize I'd be a fool to not deal appropriately with a progressive disease - while to me that doesn't mean checking into the hosital for a six week dose of gentimyacin, it also doesn't mean sitting on my yoga mat hoping enough om shanti oms will wash my CF away.
Anyway, I explained to her that Cf was GENETIC and I wondered how tapping into that wisdom might help change your genes and she just kept reiterating that she thought it was possible....it made me angry, as if she was insinuating that I could NOT have Cf if I wanted it badly enough (sort of like what started that religion illnes thread)
anyway, I don't know of this post is a rant or what, but how do you deal with convoluted thinking like this? Do you think there is any merit to her theory (as in, are we ALL just going about this disease the completely wrong way? - doubtful, no?) It made me change my opinion of this very old, dear friend as one who is sadly uneducated on how the body works - we aren't talking about the common cold here - and I wonder: do any of you believe this sort of thing, or along these lines of being able to "make" the body perfect with natural remedies and positive thinking and why?