My husband, Nazlan, is an architect and Managing Director of an architectural practice in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. He is very active in sports, very passionate about architecture, and a very very positive person. We were playing badminton when he broke the news that he was diagnosed Stage Duke’s C Cancer of the rectum. I guess all men have a way of not making the wife worry too much about problems. That was towards the end of 2003.We went to a specialist hospital in Kuala Lumpur, where he underwent surgery to remove 300mm of the tumour, took 2 cycles of chemotherapy, and spent RM30,000 (that’s about US$8,000)! for the total procedure. He felt awful as toxic drugs did collateral damage to not only the remnants of cancer cells left in his body, but also pounding his good cells and immune system at the same time. At this juncture, we felt that we were using our life savings for the doctors to have him killed!
How many of you have traded or are trading your entire health savings account with drugs to kill someone you love?
We then did extensive research, read dozens of books and talked to many authoritative people about cancer. In short, we dare say that he had become an expert – in a holistic sense - on the disease that was attacking his own body. We soon realised that the way to win the battle against this dreaded disease was to know way much more than the doctors, because we had lost faith in their so-called expertise. We began to look beyond mainstream medicine, and ’stumbled’ upon many forms of alternative medicine that gave him better confidence in healing his cancer.
It’s been over 3 years now…and God willing, he is very much alive and kicking, and is as fit as a fiddle!
