Like a good novelist, Ani Kaspar begins his memoir non-fiction "Pelicans, coconuts and Butterflies" in the middle of the action. We first met in the emergency room, struggling with breast cancer and septic shock, connected to an infusion at a temperature of 105, and struggling to breathe, while a nurse does little to help.
Although this powerful opening scene is a bit 'in your face, is understandable and appropriate way. The style booksofter and more poetic if it continues, but Ani never fails to express his frustration right along the road, both men who have trouble loving her because of her illness, and a health system that seems more interested in making money to find the human way to fight breast cancer.
While breast cancer has long been a concern for women, this book is timely in its look at health care and insurance during the current debate on healthreform. That a woman should have such limited options and inhuman, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, and have money to pay these outrageous sums to survive gives the reader sympathetic, angry, and even fear for their future doctors. Ani said: "My medical insurance is bleak After working since I was sixteen, succeed in my personal and professional commitment, after contributing to my country, its people, its economic stability, health insurance for.me, an American woman, is a sin. "By the end of the book we learn that he paid more than $ 250,000, and while her cancer now appears to be benign, it can always come back. Not surprisingly, hints of Ani, 75% of bankruptcies filed in the U.S. because of medical expenses.
After this exciting, eye-catching introduction, Ani brings us back to the previous year, describing how he left his job on Wall Street to move to the southwest and a healthy life, a life in which theyrisk to stay healthy and safe, even with metal fillings in my mouth removed to avoid toxicity. So how should ask for after being so careful about his health, could suddenly become ill with breast cancer?
It has many answers to this, some blame the government and human error to take care of the environment, while others are the result of stress they experience. They fought on Wall Street, rather than as a financial advisor, or as a high-poweredcareer-oriented person, but if a woman wants to be treated with respect in the world of a man. He won that battle, and in turn, has lost his career. "Weapons of mass destruction, stress management is needed to overcome the loss of a career. Pick a word, the word. Closely Any voltage for nine years, my life. Worth breast cancer nine points."
Ani asked, now that she had cancer, what they should do. He could not agree with chemotherapy or other violent means for his body to heal using poison to fight poison. Instead, they sought to natural healing, energy healing and alternative therapies, because "the dis-ease is not afraid to treat me, the terrible, cruel, perverted treatment that scares me the way that most tumors patients. And rightly so. "Ani is a great support for his decision by saying that less than 4% of women treated for breast cancer - cancer does not see a repeat> Cancer in five years, and chemotherapy is effective only three percent of the treatments. In addition, breast cancer is largely the result of previous mistakes health Dr. John Goffman said: "Our current estimate is that about 75% of current annual incidence of breast cancer in the United States is caused by ionizing radiation previously, mainly from medical sources. "
Ani decision to seek alternative natural healing isuncommon in the United States, but notes that in Japan, Germany and Russia, a large percentage of patients with cancer did not go through chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, but try less invasive methods of treatment. In addition, she is convinced that the current health care is profit driven, but before the Nixon administration, health care is not for profit. Now doctors can refuse patients if they can not pay, and the treatments used are often less effectiveprofitable. Ani refused to leave his body by this corporate greed in health:
I know there are natural remedies. I know that our current health care system can not benefit from them because they can not be patented, and for this reason, every sector of the system of Invasive making so much money to pursue. And I also know that our world, the heart of the conventional medical community, brilliance, and the incredible resources to provide humane treatment forall cancers. Because I know that these truths, I will not let a moment of profits from my body. I refuse to give you, the conventional medical community as possible, to treat my body as long as nonhuman.
From here we follow Ani in her quest for natural healing, and his efforts for his book to write, to share what they have learned and to highlight the obstacles from his life, while finding balance in a loving relationship with the ' man. They go to Lake Atitlan in Guatemala to escape criminal liability for theirhis country and a life with cancer of the breast, to heal and be at one with his soul. His writing is poetic and meditative, and the beauty of the natural world around her inspires her words. At times, his style reminded me of another Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Anne and her classic book of meditation gift from the sea. "
Ani finds love and loses all his efforts to cure his cancer. She tries to lasting relationships, something his readers, men andthe woman will be able to relate. She finds the courage to love and to love even in the face of his illness to try and teach them how they should maintain. By the end of his journey, he says, "I now know that the last four years have been the best years of my life. With each puzzle, mind-expanding round and round it was just another opportunity for my heart to continue open for me the most merciful to us, sacred love Gaia brings me infinite love to his heart. "
"Pelicans, coconuts andButterflies "many things. Treatment is an autobiography, is the journey of a woman through:. Cancer is an invitation to women who wanted the best of the" different treatment options best is our human right. Nothing "It 'a shocking look into health care. It' s a love story.
Much time has passed since I read non-fiction, the book of poetic prose and beautiful, surprising given its ugly subject. The fear, pain, doubt, and I hope that a woman fillswith breast cancer is something impossible to understand without suffering from the same dis-ease, yet Ani Kaspar brings us closer to understanding as I can. His ability to honestly share his experiences and emotions so revealing and refreshing makes this book simply stunning.
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