A great number of writings have been produced regarding the use of alternative methods of dealing with cancer. In the Philippines, a group has come up with one that combines allopathic and alternative approaches. One of its officers said that the results are positive, about 80% overcome their illness. However, one very important component of that is the development of a positive attitude towards healing. If a patient thinks that her illness will progress and that there is no more hope for her, then she will surely go and meet our Maker. But if she refuses to be bothered by the illness and instead focuses on what she can still do in this life, realizing her own dreams and always fixing her mind to that day when she would be free of the disease, then success is really on the way.
Now I feel sad that Angelina Jolie decided to have her breasts removed because of the "tendency" for her to acquire the disease as her relatives who had died of it. That was just a "tendency" and yet she jumped into the fire rightaway, as if competing with the disease so as not to take her life away. True to the movie roles she has given life to, Angelina becomes a superheroine of her ownself, not seeing her moves as highly destructive of her feminine body. Now she is even going to have her ovaries removed.
No, this is not the way we should deal with our bodies, we women. We need to see ourselves as whole always, our bodies as God-given, and therefore designed to be beneficial to our pursuits in life. Angelina must divest herself of all the advice of her doctors who I believe are knife-happy just so they could share the light she gives off in the world.
And that light, consists not only of the inspiring female roles that she has essayed on screen, but in real life, her charitable acts to the needy especially in Africa. Moreover, she has pulled Brad Pitt even to her advocacies. Her life, which she has spent even adopting children from other races, is so unique for a highly-celebrated movie individual, that destroying all her breasts and next her ovaries is somewhat like smirching her political activist role in life.
No I don't believe that Angelina should allow herself to be cut up here and there when there is not even an ounce of illness in her organs. It is mind-boggling what she is trying to do with her body. Could it be a case a kind of grief or guilt that takes on a different manifestation, and that is through self-immolation, a destruction of one's physical body?
Maybe, Angelina needs a counsellor not those doctors who have a weird view of dealing with cancer.
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