Ann Fonfa, for Starters!

Here's the last line in "Blogmaid's" comment from the day before yesterday, which I'd also like to respond to:

How can we make you an authority so that others (ie the mainstream medical establishment) will be more willing to listen?

I have no idea. My first thought is "forget ME!"....there are women out there who have been working tirelessly, for YEARS, chipping away at the mainstream medical establishment. Take Ann Fonfa, for example, who created the website annieappleseed.org (the link to which has been in my sidebar every since I began this blog).

Ann used alternative treatments to heal her own breast cancer and is still here to talk about it more than a decade later (and her cancer was NOT mild; she has diligently dealt with numerous recurrences, and she never had chemo or radiation).

Ann changed her whole life around after her breast cancer experience, and has put all her energies, for all these years, into trying to get the word out about alternative breast cancer treatments. In addition to her amazing nonprofit organization/website, she goes to conferences and symposiums all the country. She does interviews. She writes articles. She is all over the place, as much as she can possibly be considering how little money she has to do ANY of this. I mean, compare Ann's resources to the resources of our pharmaceutical industry!

Ann is a valient warrioress (real word? not sure...) who has taken on a 'project' - a mission, really - so huge it is mind-boggling. I, in comparison, can barely make time to write a few paragraphs on my blog, which is probably read by a grand total of two dozen people, most of whom don't have cancer.

I just typed Ann's name into a Google search. Here's the page that came up:

Click here

I hope somebody out there who stumbles across my occasional stabs at helping to "educate" others will take the time to read about Ann Fonfa and all that she does... and has done. I'll mention a couple more women in future posts who, like Ann, have devoted themselves to this herculean and daunting endeavor of advocating for education about alternative healing options. These women ARE out there, but they're fighting an uphill battle that is so steep and so high, I don't know how they find the strength to keep at it. Yet they do, bless them bless them bless them.

Comments

[harlan lewps]

I suspect doctors and patients are on the same page, more or less. But no one will ever take more care with you than you will. No doctor has just one patient. This doesn't excuse their underperformance, it's just the way things are.