GOING OFF THE DEEP END
Working in a hospital, I learn and deal with a lot of illnesses. And being a science fiction fan and a writer, I question a lot of what I learn. Take cancer for instance, and the ways we treat it. Chemotherapy, whether it's chemical or radiation, is injecting the body with poisons that annihilate not only the cancer cells, but also the white blood cells that fight off infections. It's a crapshoot, your hoping you can kill the cancer and keep the person alive long enough for their immune system to "reboot". But, even if the patient survives the treatment, you still face the possibility of the cancer coming back.
So I begin to wonder, could there be something inherently wrong with a treatment that is more likely to kill, or contribute to the death of a patient rather than helping them?
I'm not a scientist, I'm just a "collector", I record and report data, that's all I do. But as the average person, I wonder about things that just don't make sense. In science fiction, there's always the argument of man vs. nature, and I think there's one here we could explore. Follow me on this - change, evolution, can sometimes be a very violent act. It can, and has, killed several times over before its purposes are made clear. What if cancer isn't our enemy, but an agent of change? I know, it's an "out there" idea and here is where I cross the line into wacko territory, but I keep wondering about it.
I hear so many horror stories about kids, who beat cancer, only to die from a fungal infection because their immune system was wiped out, that I wonder if we've entered into a war we can't win. And when that happens, the natural questions follow, where we, or maybe just me, question if we should be fighting at all. What if cancer has a purpose? Doesn't everything in nature have a purpose? Doesn't humanity's fault of fearing what we don't understand extend to viruses and illnesses?
It's been my continued experience that there's a reason for everything, the only thing that separates a "random act" from a logical one is our understanding. I man walks into a Mc D's, he pulls a gun, kills nine people, and we all wonder why. But then, we investigate and discover that he did because his mother took him to Mc D's so much that he hated it. Now, no doubt he's crazier than shit, but that still doesn't negate that there is a reason, no matter how insane, for his actions. A child catches a cold, the immune system gets hit, then adapts, and the child becomes that much stronger. By definition, we could say that the child underwent an evolutionary change, and that we undergo several evolutions from infancy to adulthood, achieving increasingly higher, more complex, states of existence.
Just thinking out loud folks...
But ask yourself the same question I do, what if a person lived through cancer? Not the treatment, but the cancer itself. What would they become? What kind of change, evolution, would occur?
Okay, go ahead and laugh, I'm stupid, I know, but it's from questions like this, that bestsellers are written.
OUOTE OF THE DAY: "Facts are like bikinis. What they show is revealing, but what they hide is more important." - A Co-Worker.
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So I begin to wonder, could there be something inherently wrong with a treatment that is more likely to kill, or contribute to the death of a patient rather than helping them?
I'm not a scientist, I'm just a "collector", I record and report data, that's all I do. But as the average person, I wonder about things that just don't make sense. In science fiction, there's always the argument of man vs. nature, and I think there's one here we could explore. Follow me on this - change, evolution, can sometimes be a very violent act. It can, and has, killed several times over before its purposes are made clear. What if cancer isn't our enemy, but an agent of change? I know, it's an "out there" idea and here is where I cross the line into wacko territory, but I keep wondering about it.
I hear so many horror stories about kids, who beat cancer, only to die from a fungal infection because their immune system was wiped out, that I wonder if we've entered into a war we can't win. And when that happens, the natural questions follow, where we, or maybe just me, question if we should be fighting at all. What if cancer has a purpose? Doesn't everything in nature have a purpose? Doesn't humanity's fault of fearing what we don't understand extend to viruses and illnesses?
It's been my continued experience that there's a reason for everything, the only thing that separates a "random act" from a logical one is our understanding. I man walks into a Mc D's, he pulls a gun, kills nine people, and we all wonder why. But then, we investigate and discover that he did because his mother took him to Mc D's so much that he hated it. Now, no doubt he's crazier than shit, but that still doesn't negate that there is a reason, no matter how insane, for his actions. A child catches a cold, the immune system gets hit, then adapts, and the child becomes that much stronger. By definition, we could say that the child underwent an evolutionary change, and that we undergo several evolutions from infancy to adulthood, achieving increasingly higher, more complex, states of existence.
Just thinking out loud folks...
But ask yourself the same question I do, what if a person lived through cancer? Not the treatment, but the cancer itself. What would they become? What kind of change, evolution, would occur?
Okay, go ahead and laugh, I'm stupid, I know, but it's from questions like this, that bestsellers are written.
OUOTE OF THE DAY: "Facts are like bikinis. What they show is revealing, but what they hide is more important." - A Co-Worker.
JPG.
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