Mary,
I am just a caregiver and also fairly new to the cancering experience,
but I don't blame you for being dubious about what Angelo was just put
through. It sounds rather strange to me, too.
-Jean
On Fri, 03 Jul 1998 18:00:25 -0400 Lillian <firefly@islc.net> writes:
>Dear Mary: I just read your message to Marty and I know he will
>answer it for
>you. It sadden me to read your message, there are so many people out
>there
>willing to take advantage of people who are at their last ends looking
>for a
>cure. It is not that I am against alternative therapy; some
>alternatives are
>very good when taken with traditionaly therapy and Marty will help you
>with
>this. God Bless, your friend, Lillian
>
>Mary Furfaro wrote:
>
>> Dear Marty,
>>
>> I was given a copy of Love Medicine & Miracles recently by a Dr.
>Kerr.
>> He is a chiropractor who also does some alternative medicine. I
>took
>> my husband to see him about a week and a half ago. He was a very
>nice
>> doctor who spent a lot of time with us, but, I am a little skeptical
>> about his alternative treatments. He hooked my husband up to a
>> computer and had him hold onto a brass rod with a wire coming out of
>it.
>> Then he held onto a wire with a probe on the end of it. He
>explained
>> to us that at the end of everyone's fingers and toes are the nerve
>> endings to all of the orgins in our bodies. He would then touch
>> Angelo's fingers with this probe and the computer would register
>whether
>> or not he needed help in this area. Then he would put these little
>> bottles full of what he called lymph oils or something on top of
>this
>> plate that was connected to the computer while at the same time he
>> would be touching Angelo with the probe and the computer would then
>> tell him whether or not he needed this particular medicine. He
>would
>> also have an assistant in the room with him which he would have the
>> assistant hold out their arm and resist him pushing down on it,
>while
>> touching Angelo in a certain spot, if the assistants arm went down
>> this told the doctor that Angelo needed help in that area! Well, we
>> watched this and wrote out a check for $468.00 for about 25 bottles
>> of oils, and about 5 jars of tablets, that Angelo is to take 5 drops
>> of each bottle 4 times a day.
>>
>> After we got home (a 3 hour drive), I was really starting to have my
>> doubts about this procedure, so I called Dr. Kerr and asked him how
>> the computer knows what it is the little bottles? His answer was
>very
>> vague to say the least. He said It Just Knows! I feel like we were
>> just taken for $468.00. What do you think?
>>
>> We haven't even opened a bottle yet. We have decided to wait and
>see
>> what this CAT Scan says and then MAYBE we will try this. My husband
>> talked to a patient of Dr. Kerr's before we went to see him and he
>> had throat cancer and is doing really well. He swears by the
>doctor.
>>
>> Any thoughts on all of this would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Bless You All
>> Mary
>>
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