Howdy!

[David Dalglish]

Keep the chin up & the kilt on. My best wishes to you

[RockyR]

Hey Mike,

Good to see you back on the board. My thoughts are with you and your son.

[MacTavishOfJapan]

Welcome back Mike. I think I have joined since your absence started, hi, nice to meet you.

My family has been affected by cancer also and I'm saddened to hear about your son, I hope things work out OK. I also hope things work out with your wife.

I'm glad kilting has helped you and hope it brings you more joy in the future. And Ham's video are great!

Take care

Andy

[RCallan]

Welcome back, and please know our thoughts are with you and your family.

[Panache]

Welcome back. My best wishes to you and your family.

Cheers

[ozmeath]

My blessings are with you and yours Mike. It always hurts to see one of us here to going through hard challenges, even if we've never met! But then at times I think here we can share a few things that we dare not usually.
I just wish you and your family well Mike.

[mbhandy]

Mike it is always good to keep the positive look on life, it is so easy to attaine the neg. Life comes at you in blocks of good and bad and bad some times is hard to take.

You and your family stay well,

MrBill

[Livingston]

Mike, our prayers are with you and your family. We have both had members of our families deal with cancer. Her parents are 25+ year survivors and my father is a 6 yr survivor. The doctors can help and our prayers will help too.

[Frank MacDuffy]

Take care and persevere, your in our prayers.

[Angus MacSpey]

One of my friends told me that when he was in high school, some of the classrooms had posters with pictures of different fruits & vegetables, with the admonition to eat lots of them because they prevent cancer. These were fruits & veggies with high levels of Vitamin C. So shouldn't the preventative also cure?

I've since learned that one Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winning scientist of sterling reputation, cured terminal cancer patients with little more than large doses of Vitamin C. I don't know if it's true or not, but if it is, it's unlikely too many doctors would make their Porsche payments curing cancer patients with it!

Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation are expensive, and make lots of money for lots of people. They also add heavily to the emotional burden of the very word "cancer." It needn't be so. Even today we must question the conventional wisdom of the medical priesthood, just as we always have. As one example, the Royal Navy had the knowledge of how to prevent scurvy for 200 years before they implemented it.

I had a great-aunt who was told by two different doctors that she had 3-6 months to live, and that there was nothing they could do. (This was decades ago.) She went to another doc who gave her a shot, and a diet to follow. She died of old age, over 30 years later, in her late 80's.

I post this not to create a firestorm, but in the hopes that anyone here who is faced with, or has a loved one faced with, the dread -- but very curable -- cancer, will do some homework before committing to conventional therapies that, to this day, have a piss-poor track record while generally causing more harm than good.