Reishi Mushrooms

Written By:  Andrew Eide

My last wife, who passed away in July 2009, was always doing whatever her relatives and friends told her worked for them, or supposedly worked for them, when it came to treating cancer. My last wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2005.

The problem with people is they fail to understand that the only thing that can battle cancer is your healthy immune system. They fail to realize that the only reason cells in our body mutate and reproduce abnormally (which is what cancer is) is because their immune system is not working correctly.

So in this case I am discussing today her Cousin had bladder cancer, or so they claim, and his wife, who was a doctor, claimed that he took Reishi Mushrooms and in less than six months his bladder cancer was gone and he was cured.

I tried explaining to my last wife that it is only a healthy immune system that keeps cancer, which is nothing more than abnormally reproducing cells of out body, in check. She was demanding telling me to order the Reishi Mushroom powder from her cousin.

Now think about this. How convenient is it that her cousin, with a doctor for a wife, claims they took the Reishi Mushrooms, was cured of bladder cancer, and gee it just so happens they are also a distributor for the company that distributed Reishi Mushrooms?

My last wife refused to listen. We spent over $150 for the Reishi Mushroom powder and capsules. My last wife took it for three days and become so violently ill that she nearly died. We had to rush her to the Emergency Room where they determine she had toxic poisoning from the Reishi Mushrooms since this type of mushroom is very toxic.

Now here’s the ultimate in stupidity.

About a year later her friend, Doris, also told her of the beneficial effects of Reishi Mushrooms on cancer. My last wife demanded I purchase Reishi Mushrooms for her to help cure her cancer. When I reminded her that a year before she was rushed to the Emergency Room and nearly died from toxic poisoning from the Reishi Mushrooms she denied it. When I refused to waste our money just to have her get rushed to the Emergency Room with toxic poisoning again I was accused by her and wanting her to die.

Unreal.

Humans can be so damn stupid.

Colonoscopy

Written By:  Andrew Eide

The medical community has a standard recommendation that once you are over a certain age, usually 50 years, they want you to have a Colonoscopy done every year. This, they claim, is a preventive measure that could help you detect polyps or colon cancer early enough to treat it before it becomes a major problem. Even with this recommendation from the medical community I refuse to get a Colonoscopy and I will give my reasons below.

(1) I’ve read enough articles to know that you are not completely unconscious during the procedure. They drug you up just enough so that you are woozy but not unconscious. If I am not completely unconscious then I don’t want an invasive procedure such as a Colonoscopy.

(2) Some stories are told where a patient is under excruciating pain during the examination and the medical personnel either don’t care or the person is drugged up enough to where they cannot properly communicate to the medical personnel the pain they are having. I don’t like pain and I don’t want to take the chance.

(3) Others have reported that the scope used by the doctor was mis-directed and either caused a deep scratch to their intestines or an actual perforation. In the case of a perforation a surgery needs to be done to repair the damage the doctor and medical personnel caused.

(4) There are many reported cases of the scope not being properly sanitized after being used on one patient and then when they use it on the next patient the new patient contracts an infection.

(5) Here is my final, and the most important one, of my reasons to not have a Colonoscopy done. You have your doctor and they perform the Colonoscopy at a medical facility, so you have to deal with not only your doctor but the medical staff at the clinic where they perform the procedure. In both cases, before they will perform a Colonoscopy on you, they require you to sign a waiver stating you are prohibited from holding your doctor, and the medical personnel at the clinic, responsible for any injury, damage, etc., resulting from them doing something wrong during the procedure. What?

There is no way I would sign a waiver stating I cannot sue my doctor or medical personnel for causing me an injury or infection due to them doing something wrong. I had a family doctor at the time who said to me if my only reason for doing a medical procedure was to sue the doctor or medical personnel if something goes wrong then I should not do the medical procedure. I told my doctor that is not my intention but I would be an idiot to waive all my rights to where if I have a perforated intestine, an infection, or something else debilitating from the medical procedure, any Judge would throw my lawsuit out based on my signature on a legal document stating I am prohibited from suing for malpractice.

So I continue on, currently at 63 years of age, and I refuse to have an invasive procedure such as a Colonoscopy done on me.