of Clinical Oncology Breast
Cancer Symposium and This
doctor said to me, oh it’s a
good feeling that you, with
multiple chemical sensitivity,
did not take chemotherapy.
The first person in 21 plus
years of being in this situation, who actually recognized that chemicals sensitivity, would not go well
with chemotherapy. It’s kind
of amazing. That was my
fear of course that they will
tell me to take treatment…
Alan Braux (AB): In one way,
your uncle passing away
also gave you a hint that
chemotherapy was probably not the answer either.
AF: Well what I saw from
in my situation but since
those times, the early
days, I’ve met hundreds
and hundreds maybe
thousands of people who
have made other choices.
I’ve tried to be a bridge.
It’s been my view that
most people are going to
get treated conventionally because they don’t
know better, they don’t
know anything else and
I wanted to be able to
inform and educate as
many people as possible.
When I set up the website,
it was June 1999; with
not a lot of information
was available for people
who wanted to make
healthier choices. There
were individuals, some
of my friends among
them who were into
organic and being more
physically active and the
things that I thought
were important. But the
general population, not
so much and over time, I
think it has gotten worse.
that was it didn’t always
work. It wasn’t always called
for and they exaggerate the
results. I mean, they told
me he would die in three
months if he didn’t have
chemo and he died in three
weeks when he did have
chemo and radiation. He
suffered a lot too. So the
whole thing was just not for
me. I didn’t have anything
When I talk to doctors,
to go on. I didn’t know
anybody else who have been I say, you know, those