One more person who feels nutritional support is “hooey”

So, somebody feels that meningiomas grow so slowly as to not be of any concern and went so far as to suggest that nutritional support is basically without foundation and to say that I was “making people feel guilty”, as if their tumor were their fault. 

I’m a little ticked off.  First off, that person clearly did not even read the post they were responding to, let alone anything else on this blog.  Second, what a hugely dangerous attitude, to suggest that nothing you can do nutritionally will make a difference and can’t be measured in your lifetime, anyway!

As I say in my introduction in the left column of this blog:

Welcome! My name is Teresa and I have a teeny, tiny meningioma. Doctors will tell you meningiomas are benign, they grow slowly, and you’ll probably outlive them.

But benign brain tumors have a worse survival rate than breast cancer , resected tumors often grow back, tumors grow around blood vessels and nerves and can’t be touched, and a brain surgery at age 65 when it might be big enough to worry about could be difficult, so a “watch and wait” stance isn’t quite enough for me.

This blog is about my journey through “total wellness”, anything natural and with good science behind it that *might* help keep the tumor from growing or shrink it entirely.

I want to be very clear.  I do not say that anything I am trying will be a “cure” but yes, I do believe in natural healing and I’m hopeful.  I am not laying a guilt trip on anyone.  That’s “hooey”!

What this blog seeks to do is provide clear, solid information from medical sources on what YOU can do to fight your brain tumor.  Folks, I cite studies and presentations from neurosurgeons and a nutritionist who specifically works only on brain tumors and whose work is well-respected by the brain tumor community.

If you want to sit for many years in your “watch and wait” mode, expecting that your tumor will only grow 1mm per year and therefore, will NEVER be a problem, you are free to do that.

Not me.  I happen to know someone who survived a peach-sized meningioma.  HELLO, that guy was not growing at 1mm per year!  

So, thank you very much, whatever I have been doing for the last year has dramatically improved my health.  If it didn’t touch the tumor and the tumor is the same size, so be it.  I haven’t even begun to do all the things that *solid medical science* says might make a difference!