I don't normally watch TV except during lunch/dinner... but awhile ago I was flipping around and saw this kid on the Montel show...
They were talking about his battle with cancer & how he became cancer free.
Someone close in my family was going through cancer at the time so it was
interesting & sort of stuck with me.
In a nutshell (as I remember it)....
This kid was diagnosed with cancer, started taking chemo, freaked out because it (chemo) was killing him & told his parents he didn't want to take it anymore.
Of course his parents trusted that the Dr's knew what was best & insisted their son stick with the chemo.
..To which he promptly said
& ran away.
Eventually the media caught wind of it all and had a field day. The mom was put on TV begging for Billy to come home with the promise that the medicial doctors could offer different treatments.
He saw it & decided to go home.
Of course many cancer victims & snakeoil salesman saw this broadcast as well & flooded the Best family with their calls & cures.
I guess they talked to a ton of people.. and Billy was very interested in alternative (non-mainstream) methods.
After talking to many people and doing lot of investigation into the various treatments they decided to work with this guy in Canada...
So they went for a final visit to the hospital that Billy had been treated at & let the doctors know that they were going to be using an alternative treatment ---
they freaked.
They reported the family as unfit parents to social services! The hospital wanted the kid to use their 'mainstream' treatments or nothing apparently
So Billy ran away again -- this time with his Dad to Canada to undergo the alternative treatment they chose
They returned a couple months later & he was cancer free and (according to the site) has been ever since.
His site is here...
One thing I don't like about the site is the heavy commerical push for buying "real" non-counterfeit ESSAIC.
But whatever... this is America after all. Even the best and most honest stories usually have a [Buy It Now] button at the end.
So my poll is.....
If you had cancer that required chemotherapy, would you do it? Or would you say fuggit & take an 'alternative medicine' route?