Clutching at straws

Joan is sleeping more during the day which is not a good sign. Her inability to eat, or keep down what she can eat, is making her very weak.

Our neighbors are medicos...he is head of emergency surgery at a large private hospital and is she is a nurse. They have urged us to try acupuncture with a colleague of theirs who is also a GP. After last night’s sudden vomit attack where Joan lost her food as well as her chemotherapy tablets I am going to urge her to make an appointment with the acupuncturist today. Can’t hurt!

A friend who visited recently is sending us a bag of leaves of a native shrub from the desert areas of Australia which is claimed to cure cancer....once again we will give it a try, but once you get some knowledge about fighting cancer, you realise that each different form of cancer is fought using different chemo and it seems unlikely that one specific ‘herb’ is a cure all for cancer. The people who are selling the small bags of this ‘remarkable herb’ think that it is good so they are charging lots for it. Scaevola spinescens can be found here. Like acupuncture, it can’t hurt.

Joan is having another visit with the hypnotherapist she visited last week. This time he is bulk billing her...probably because we felt that he did no more than give her a pep talk. We want him to put her ‘under’ and suggest that the aversion to the smell, taste and texture of food is no longer present. Worth a try!