January 2009
Angela sent me this video this morning and asked if I would post it to remind each of us
about the struggle that we endure in our lives and how important it is to find our strength
even when we feel we have none. When I personally feel sad and defeated I remind myself of everything that I do have in my life and then my struggles, no matter how significant
flicker and fade. I realize that whatever my worries, I can struggle through them and turn
them into something positive. The man in this video is an unspeakable example of bravery
I receive many questions about cancer every day from various people around the world.
I am not a cancer expert, nor am I any authority on cancer at all. However, all of the
studying that I have done on cancer years ago led me to the conclusion and thought
that cancer certainly must have a fungal component to it. REcently I have read more
and more that many researchers are themselves coming to this conclusion. IC also
has a fungal component, however, how is develops in the body is different than cancer.
Just wanted to remind everyone that our other site, bomamed.com also has interesting blogs on it. If you want, please check that out! Although it is not about IC, perhaps it will be of interest to you and your family!
Change is a fundamental part of this kind of treatment. Holistic medicine is ineffective
if it is not changed throughout treatment. What makes a person feel better in the
beginning stages of treatment will no longer work as treatment continues. Contrary
to the beliefs of many, it is not because it stopped working, but, rather because the
changes it was meant to have on the body's imbalances have taken place and the step
needs to be taken. Where the problem comes in, is that understandably, the person
Original Letter:
This week I received a beautiful letter from a husband of one of my patients who has been in treatment for under a year now. He thanked me for helping to give them both their lives
back. He said they had been completely lost at the time they found me and were hopeless.
Over the months he watched as his wife's health improved and he began to see the woman
he had once known emerge from inside the different version of herself that she had more
recently become. I thanked him for taking a moment to share his feelings with me. It
When people come here to this clinic, one of the most common questions is: "have
you seen someone who has symptoms like this before?". The reason is because
as much as there are so many common symptoms, it is true that there are groups of
symptoms. And, depending on who you are speaking to you may or may not have
symptoms in common. Early in my practice I thought to myself, if I could only just
come up with a broad enough treatment, I could find one easy solution that would
A patient asked me this week how she could possibly ever mend the pain that she has
inside herself, and pondered what part her IC had in the issues that life has presented her
with. I responded with an empathetic heart, one that too has been broken, many times,
with what has felt like irreparable pain. The involvement of IC on top of such pain
can become a compounding complication to that pain because of the lack of understanding
that one often experiences in this condition and the lack of optimism one may have in ever
getting well.
