Treatment options are completely a person’s own decision to make, but until you yourself have been faced with this disease, it is self-righteous and rude to claim that one decision over another is has God’s approval. When you are faced with death at an early age, it’s confusing and upsetting enough without having strangers - who have never had cancer - tell you that you are doing the wrong thing and even mistrusting God because of a medical choice you made. I don’t care how much you believe in a particular treatment. Unless you have had the same disease and were cured by the methodology you support, you have no right to force it on someone without empirical data supporting your argument.

Yes - God is in control. He also created the people who discovered the different medical treatments for various cancers. One of the drugs in my chemotherapy regimen was derived from red flowers that grow only in France. I found it very difficult to communicate with many of my Christian peers who were of the opinion that trusting God meant using only “natural” or “holistic” treatments. It would have been EXCELLENT to be “healed” miraculously or through a pain-free regimen, and I’m not glad that it was so difficult. But I can say with complete confidence that I have a new appreciation for the suffering Christ endured for my soul, and I do not believe that submitting to medical treatment is mutually exclusive from trusting God.

The courts were not Abraham Cherrix’s enemy; they weren’t forcing him to get chemotherapy so he would die. The were fighting for the life of a child based on empirical evidence that the treatment prescribed by his doctor was his best chance at living a long life. I hate to say it, but with cancer, nobody wins. Even if you survive there are terrible scars. I would just encourage you to listen before preaching at someone with cancer. They are doing the best they can. It might make YOU feel better to tell them about some random treatment going on in Mexico, but trust me: unsolicited advice has the capability of making them feel much worse.

…

If you are interested, you can check out the health company here: http://www.DanielChapterOne.com

(I hope I have not infringed on any rules by including that website link. If I have, please forgive me and feel free to edit my post to remove the link.)

Thanks for understanding. God bless!

Thanks Team Reb for keeping us updated with Abraham’s story–its not in the Canadian news.