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Cancer and retirement

Being Labour-day today reminds me of father. Well, each night before I go to sleep reminds me of father, just that his birthday did even more and now labour day does. Why?

Father of course was not happy at all to say the least when he heard he had a not curable cancer. But what he repeatedly said was: here I am, retired, I have so many things to do, why am I lying here in this hospital?

Father never said: why do I have cancer? And I forgot to ask why he never said so, as I constantly ask myself: why for crying out loud does a nice person need to have cancer? If bad people get it as kind of punishment, I can agree.

But why getting cancer at the moment you get retired? Doesn’t that ring a bell that we have to reduce retirement age, when we know that our health won’t last as long as we had imagined? Seems there is a personal choice to be made here, and mine and hubbies choices are clear: retire as soon as possible. As the older we get, the more cancer can take over inside our body… :

Retire before cancer retires you!

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Our father passed away from metastatic liver cancer because none of his doctors had ever seen nor experienced somebody surviving this disease. We paid them huge amounts of money and they told us "there is no cure". And just like that, all will power to survive and beat the cancer disappeared in father's eyes...

 

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The best cancer treatment: having a healthy body

As long as there is no bullet proof cure for cancer, it all boils down to Darwin's survival of the fittest. The best way to get ahead of cancer is:

 

• making sure you don't get cancer
   
• making sure your body has all it can get to kill cancer cells

 

Cancer prevention boils down to eating and living healthy, keeping a healthy mind in a healthy body.

 

Easier said than done in a world were your job stresses you out, car smoke pollutes your air, food is filled with residu's and water is polluted.

 

But if your life is dear to you, then you cannot use all the above as an excuse. Father had been smoking, had worked with asbestos and didn't eat much vegetables nor fruit. Father died with metastatic liver cancer in a way I wouldn't even wish my worst enemy.

 

When your life is dear to you, start doing all the things that our metastatic liver cancer survivors are doing:

 

1. Believe there is a cure : believe it like you believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

 

2. Use conventional medicine like chemotherapy, surgery and/or radiation therapy.

 

3. Add to that alternative cancer treatments to boost your immune system and overall health:

 

• the healthier you are: the better you can fight of diseases and
   
• the healthier you are: the better chemotherapy could work for you
   

 

4. Follow an holistic health approach: having a healthy spirit in a healthy body:

 

• focus on less stress,
   
• more relaxation,
   
• more exercise (Jim's son is swimming twice a week for both exercise and relaxation),
   
• a healthy diet based on organic products
   
• make sure you have a hobby to pass your time doing something you love
   

 

5. Make sure you have money or good health insurance to buy what you need to better achieve all of the above.

 

6. Surround yourself with as many loving and helpful creatures you can find: according to pancreatic cancer patient Patrick Swayze:

 

"you gotta have a dog"

 

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