How I Learned About Alternative Cancer Treatments

Sue Insole — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:28:00 GMT

After a bit of searching on some Internet sites, I found the article about apricot kernels that I vaguely remembered from before. I read avidly, and needed to find out more. I sent for books, and that weekend I started to chew apple pips (which contain B17) and ordered apricot kernels, thinking that it could only help if I started taking them too. If nothing else, it might help me recover from the operation.

When I saw the nurse I told her I was looking at alternatives, but she didn’t seem very positive about it or think it would help much. In the end I agreed to go into hospital in a month’s time for the surgery.

We were having good summer weather, and my husband Peter and I went down to the beach and to various other places, trying to put the dreaded subject on the back burner. I cried a lot at times and raged about it at others. I had already lost Emma, my sister Diane, and my Dad, and now this disease wanted to take me too!

I remember sitting on the beach close to where we live when the nurse rang with the actual date for the operation, which put a whole dampener on the day, as it had still seemed unreal until then.

The books arrived, and I practically devoured them. I just knew that there had to be something else besides what they were proposing to get rid of the cancer. I read about several people who had recovered from cancer using B17, and I had already spoken with several people from the place that sold me the kernels about medical treatment and its drawbacks. All of this was giving me a bad feeling about the imminent operation.

This post is part of a weekly series in which Sue Insole describes her health journey. Click here to read her earlier posts. Next week, Sue tells us how she made the most important decision of her life.

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SUSAN INSOLE, BSYA (N Th.) is a former NHS nurse and is now a nutritional therapist in the field of natural health. She worked in a health care setting for 16 years, firstly in the field of rehabilitation and then as a welfare officer and secretary within a hospital setting. She was also an advisor for weight loss in 2001 - 2003. She achieved a diploma in 2006 for nutritional therapy. She is the author of a downloadable eBook, What Works in Health. Her website is: www.naturalhealthbenefits.com.

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