That blue car....it looks familiar...what does that sign in the window say?

I love the chain....

I'll have to admit that back in the early 90's I DID check out a 'clinic' in
Mexico that did IV treatments with hydrogen proxide.  Can't really remember
how I heard about it to check it out in the first place, but one can only
guess the newsgroup where it was discussed.

I was extremely exhausted (CFS) after my breast implant explantation and
feeling horrid, weak and could not function.  It would have been worth
$15,000 to find a treatment that would 'cure' whatever ailed me.

After the initial 'qualifying' phone call, I was sent a video tape in
over-night express mail from southern California about the place.  After a
few days I received numerous follow-up phone calls trying to get me to
commit.  They were definitely 'selling' their service.

What I first noticed in the video was the quality of the 'clinic' and
housing unit and realized right off the bat that it was a low class
germ-infested environment (it reminded me of the early 60's visits to
impoverished and filthy Tijuana).

It showed the patients (old and tired looking) on day one and then the IV
treatment room (which looked like a place I wouldn't have even have stored
canned food in) and finally the end of the week shots of smiling faces (of
people that at least looked more hydrated).

I thought about how desperate people take desperate measures, and decided
that I was indeed feeling desperate, but was not a sucker either.  If the
treatments were that good and 'lasting', people would be talking up a storm
and clamoring to get in line, even at those prices.

And I remembered my friend who died of lung cancer and her desperate
attempts to extend her life by participating in off-the-wall type cure-alls
like ground appricot pits, or some such.

My relatives lived (notice the tense) in San Diego.

One died of diabetes after being convinced to stop insulin treatment by
one of those clinics.

Another one was sold on Laetrile...and died of the cancer she had
previously been successfully treating with chemo.

Their surviving spouses, fortunately, survived and never went to Tijuana
again.

In a very poor country where a few people are paying big bucks for
treatment...yes, they have survived in paying their expenses.  However,
after years and years of 'referrals' it certainly has not improved the
quality or drawn the multitudes from word of mouth testimony, has it?

Michael Landon did coffee enema's (how alternative can one get?)....but he
still died 3 months after being diagnosed w/cancer.  You don't see massive
numbers of people crowding their local drug stores to get enema bags....but
yes, there probably will always be a few who have no hope and are willing to
try anything.

Funny......why doesn't the world hear all that overwhelming personal
testimony after all these years?  Would it be these people are dead and
didn't live long enough to 'spread the word' about these miracle cures?  I
have no doubt that there are people who temporarily respond to having
someone blow in their ear with attention.

Yap, yap, yap....back to the old blame the boogie men.

After all these "years and years"  surely they should be able to produce
enough well-documented cases of cancer remission to prove their treatments
work.

If you want to see what the results of several well-known Mexican clinics
are REALLY like, Ilena, go to
http://members.bordernet.com.au/~pmoran/cancer/Alternative_studies.htm   .
A sample --- the Gerson clinic is one of the best known and often
recommended clinics and melanoma was the cancer they thought they had the
best results with.   Yet of eighty odd patients with visceral metastases
from melanom accepted for treatment not one survived five years.  They were
unable to produce a single instance where established melanoma went away
with their treatment.   And these patients would have spent their last
months or years with their lives totally taken up with juicing and coffee
enemas (even four hourly if Dr Gerson had his way), not to mentioon the
expense.

It is very unfair on the Gerson clinic for me to have to say this.  They at
least published their results.   They have some belief in what they do
(despite all the facts).

Can we conclude that any who don't publish results do even worse?

Peter Moran

www.cancerwatcher.com

Here's a real life phenomenon.....sometimes people are too far gone, no
matter what others do to assist their healing...and they die.

I have a couple of friends going through Chemo right now who have gotten
terrific results.  They were very, very ill and no one expected 'any'
improvement.  They are blessed to have some more days on earth.  But they
too will die eventually.