If everything has a purpose then evil doesn't exist

[R-Farmer]

Getting a second medical opinion is just smart living.  Especially in the case of cancer.  Every medical system has their own protocol, states have their own protocols, different doctors do different things based on their knowledge and experience.  If you turned it over to god you wouldn't have bothered with a second opinion since it was out of your hands.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009.  A new kind, they said, very aggressive, they said.  After a bi-lateral mastectomy the medicinal oncologist at Baylor wanted to start chemo right away...like right now.  A very intense kind of chemo.  I needed to think about it and do some reading.  Then my plastic surgeon's office manager put me in touch with a different doctor in a different medical environment.  No chemo, no radiation, no recurrence.

The first doctor actually told me there was no blood test they could run to check for levels of cancer cells in my system.  Other doctor said that of course there is, it's how they tell if chemo is working or not.  Interesting.  Hospitals about two miles from each other, totally different situation.  As it turns out, I was so anemic after the mastectomy that a round of chemo could well have been my only one.

I left the doctors at Baptist and all their god stuff to go to UT Southwestern and have never regretted that decision for a moment.

I didn't put anything in a god's hands.  I made the decision to put my 'faith' in a doctor who didn't lie to me from the jump.

I'm glad you survived the treatments you had to endure and the whole indignity of it all. I truly feel bad for anyone who has to go through that whole ordeal. As it's not just the physical pain or the whole being ripped out of your life. but the reality of being made to face your own mortality and the reconciliation of all the different things you thought you would have time to still see and do..

So, I mean it when I say I never wanted to imply that there was no other way to survive cancer, or that even being a worshiper of God made you immune to it. I was asked has cancer ever touched anyone in my family. the answer is yes. then shared my own experience. This is how I dealt with it. Not to say anyone else's experience is any less valid.