Surgery

The Joys of Surgery…Grrrr!

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surgeryMary O’Malley – I want to share a story with you where we will have to slog through the weeds before we get to a spacious and healing view, for this is a story about my hip replacement surgery.  When I told some people about the surgery, several of them said they had heard this was an easy surgery.

I felt relief because the spine surgery I had in February was very intense. But the first inkling that maybe this wasn’t true came when I met with the surgeon for my pre-op appointment.  He said that I would wish I hadn’t had surgery for the first three weeks. But I still imagined that this would be less painful than the spine surgery.

At my post-op appointment two weeks after the surgery, the x-ray technician asked me how I was doing. When I said I was slowly progressing, he responded that when he is present for this surgery (they take x-rays all throughout the surgery) he was amazed that people would heal at all because the surgery was so brutal. Continue reading →

Morty Lefkoe ~ My Cancer Has Spread To My Liver; Even That Has No Meaning

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LefkoeInstitute April 8 2014

MortyLefkoeSince my post a couple of weeks ago describing how I wasn’t giving meaning to my colon cancer diagnosis, there have been several new developments.

I told you that I was scheduled for surgery to remove the cancer in my colon.  I wrote: “I also learned that if the cancer had not spread beyond the lining of the colon and if it was removed surgically, the problem would be totally solved.  If it had spread to other organs, then the prognosis could be serious.”  (See my earlier post for more details: http://www.mortylefkoe.com/diagnosed-cancer/.)

Well, it appears that the radiologist, who initially read my CT scan and thought the spot on my liver was only a benign cyst, had made a mistake.  Another radiologist looked at my CT scan just before my surgery and told my oncologist, Jennifer Lucus, that he was pretty sure the mass on my liver was cancer.  Jen immediately cancelled the surgery and called me to let me know.  And when I was given the new diagnosis, I continued to have no reaction because I gave that diagnosis no more meaning than my earlier diagnoses.

A liver biopsy was next

To get more information on the “probable” liver cancer, Jen ordered a biopsy of the mass on my liver.  They are still doing additional pathology tests, but they are now certain that it is cancer.

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Doctors Now Encouraging Patients To Remove Body Parts To ‘Prevent Cancer’

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NaturalSociety | October 2 2012

BreastGlorified as a heart warming ‘preventative’ trend by the mainstream media, doctors are now recommending that patients who are found to be ‘more susceptible’ to certain cancers based on genetic testing actually surgically remove body parts that could be affected. It sounds insane and beyond barbaric (as it is), but apparently the mainstream medical community thinks it is quite the heroic feat to perform bodily mutilation in the name of phony cancer prevention.

In a recent CNN article entitled “My preventive mastectomy: Staying alive for my kids,” a mother removes both her breasts and ovaries despite not testing positive for cancer. Stating that the did so at the urging of her gynecologist, Allison Gilbert surgically removed her ovaries in 2007 and her breasts earlier this year. Gilbert explains how she decided to remove her breasts and ovaries after her doctor highly recommended doing so despite the fact that nutrition and lifestyle actually can alter your gene expression dramatically:

The decision to have surgery without having cancer wasn’t easy, but it seemed logical to me. My mother, aunt and grandmother have all died from breast or ovarian cancer, and I tested positive for the breast cancer gene.

Nutrition is Known to Dramatically Affect Gene Expression

This new trend signifies a complete and utter failure to recognize legitimate science regarding the effective prevention of cancer through nutrition and lifestyle. In fact, research has repeatedly shown that what you eat directly affects your genes. As information from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology shows, nutrition can create or alleviate inflammation levels through altering gene expression. Inflammation, of course, has been linked to a long list of diseases — including cancer. As a lead researcher from the study explained:

“This affects not only the genes that cause inflammation in the body, which was what we originally wanted to study, but also genes associated with development of cardiovascular disease, some cancers, dementia, and type 2 diabetes — all the major lifestyle-related diseases.”

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