CANCER - Helping the victims

Cancer Victims - What now?
Philippines
May 5, 2007 9:39am CST
Cancer doesn't choose whether you're rich or poor. It just leaves victims... the partner... the kids... the family. I feel for them, for I too, am a cancer victim. I lost my wife to it. Now, it's just me and my two daughters. I would like to help these victims. I feel sad for the orphaned kids. Or the wife who has no means of income. Or the husband who has a hard time coping with the loss. How can I help them? How can WE help them?
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
6 May 07
Yes I can understand how you feel. My mother is currently fighting for her dear life for my frail father wants her on her side. They have just entered their retirement life and they have not even enjoyed their life as retired and everything seems gloomy in their life as they are struggling to fight this disease off them. Financially speaking they still could cope but we don't really know how far it could reach or could we really afford to continue her chemos and everything.
• Philippines
7 May 07
Be strong. Unlike before, you looked at your parents as your "Pillar of Strength", now the roles are reversed. They are looking at you (and your siblings) as their strength, even though they won't be saying it.
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
7 May 07
That's very true.... I am quite not yet ready to let her go right now. I try to be as strong as I could be but everytime i see her in the hospital although she does not show she is suffering pains and everything I could feel the heaviness she's having after every chemo session she is having. I could only support her emotionally but financially i could not.
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@Manoj_s (939)
• India
23 May 07
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@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
20 May 07
I asked myself that same question when my sister passed from it back in 2003; She has a son who was 8 going on 9 at the time; I wondered how he would be without her, but considering it's just him and his father now, I believe he has turned out very well. He couldn't take the fact of his granddaddy passing(my father)so his father made the call to not attend since it was the same month his mom passed. I told them I understood and that we loved them just the same. I do know that since his mom's passing, he has had a counselor to come in for him; he got him a Game Station so he can keep his interests occupied, which it did, but out of it, I see a more mature young man. but back to the question, what can we do? other than let them know we love them and why this has happened, that is all we can do. They may not understand the reason why their parent or loved one has gone, but it does; I have a lady from church; she is in her 20s I would say, and she lost her mom about six years ago, and I know she still has pain. Time is probably all that is needed.
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• Philippines
21 May 07
The same thing is happening to me. I see my two daughters grow up as matured individual. More aware of the things around them. I guess with the loss, they tend to be less oblivious of things. Maybe seeking for something. I don't know.
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@healwell (1268)
• Ahmedabad, India
14 May 07
There are cancer charity institutes. And help also provided by charity trusts. People like our can submit their contribution to those trusts and that way help could be sent! I am a healer and I am healing few cancer people since become healer. I found that at least the pain is really affected by Reiki Healing Energy. I have got messages from doctor that pain duration and severity really affected up to 80%! Online internet distance healing is also possible. If such persons want to get benefit of that, please visit these sites: http://www.reikiholistichealing.bravehost.com http://www.reikisanctum.com So who are healer they can help this way and this is a best way to help!
• Philippines
21 May 07
I too believe in alternative versions of healing and not just the "chemical / medical" option. But it would also take a huge part of belief from the patient themselves. For I believe that the mental capacity of a patient to really "believe" that he / she can be healed can play a big role in the healing process of a person.
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• Pakistan
19 May 07
thats terrible. i feel so sorry for you. well i think that the cancer victims should be given some social work to do so that they can get their minds away from their situations, as for a mother with no income, a cancer trust fund should be set up which helps these people. or we all can collect money for someone that we know is a cancer patient or someone who has lost a loved one suffering from cancer.
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• Philippines
21 May 07
A Cancer Trust Fund is a nice idea, but with so many Cancer "Victims" out there, you would be needing a pile of money for it. I do agree that they should be given situations / opportunities to take their mind of the loss. Opportunities that would make them earn, would be a better alternative.
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@silv3rcut (178)
13 May 07
Its a hard thing to talk about as people die from it everyday. If you think about it, GM engineering may be able to help cancer and many other diseases but the goverment dont allow it..
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• Philippines
21 May 07
I'm sorry, but I seem to be lost here. Does GM mean Genetic Manipulation?
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• United States
19 May 07
I'm with you, bon. Our dear family friends are going through this. She's pregnant with their fifth child, he's going through chemo and radiation concurrently. We walked with them in the Relay For Life. Cancer took my best friend when we were thirteen, and my high school sweetheart when we were twenty-four. Now, another dear friend has been battling it out for eight years. Is it in the water? The air?
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• Philippines
21 May 07
I once asked my wife's doctor, in her own opinion, what she would think is the cause of cancer. Not only for my wife, but for the other patients. She said it was "lifestyle". The way we live our lives (pollution, not enough rest, etc). The food we eat (MSG laden junk food, fast food, sodas, etc). She asked me, about 40 years ago, Cancer was not that rampant. What was there before, that we don't have much of now? (clean air, simple lives, enough rest time, healthy food) Before, only the rich had Cancer. What did they had before, that the poor and middle class have today?
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• Israel
10 May 07
Hi there Bon Jiing, How important is this to you? By the story you tell, it seems as closest to you as possible, and I feel so sorry for families who's relatives have cancer - who are as victims as the patients themselves. I can show you a way to help yourself and others, if you like. I do it here, and all over the world in more than 40 countries - even in the philippines... PM me for more info.
• United States
6 May 07
At christams time my uncle was fighting maligant malanoma. Every time we went to the Dr we got the worst news possible and we got very discouraged. This is my dads twin brother and we are very close he is another father to me. We strugled with this. At his surgery they were checking his lymph nodes and as we have gotten so much bad news we were very nervous. After the surgery my mom and I had to take care of him. As nurses it was our job but we were ok with it. I was at home one night and my mom and grandmother were at his house and they called me and they had gotten a phone call that they cancer was not in the lymph nodes. I can not explain the feeling that I had. My insides were jumping. His daughter called me and she was happier that I have ever seen her. I know that its hard to deal with but keep praying and believing and it will get better. It might not always go away but things will get better.
• Philippines
7 May 07
It brings a smile to my face hearing about someone winning the battle. CONGRATULATIONS!
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