Page 33The next time I saw this patient was over a year later. She came to see me short
of breath. I ordered an immediate chest x-ray and, sure enough, she was riddled
with lung secondaries. I was unable to work with her this time because this was
only days before my passage to a new life in Sri Lanka, with my lovely new wife.
The patient, by the way, had been seeing a chiropractor for months, who kept
assuring her that it was just a spinal mal-adjustment and could be easily fixed (a
chiro who thinks that, in a cancer patient with those symptoms, should lose her
license).
It’s one of the oldest dictums
in all of healing that you can’t
want recovery for a person
more than they want it for
themselves. It just doesn’t
work.