Your Neighbor's Home Remedies

“If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies,’’ says a character in Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” “you may be sure that particular illness is incurable.’’…

I think Chechov, by way of his character, have a great point in this line. I've noticed that since I've gotten cancer only a few people offer me remedies.

Naturally - because the ways to fight cancer are fairly well known.

On the other hand when the complaint is fibromyalgia, a systemic, chronic, incurable illness, everybody and their brother have suggestions. Except the doctors that is. They're with me. There's no curing fibromyalgia. I'm on my own.

So here I'll try to stick with focusing on cancer, though my lousy immune system and being exhausted is what's really holding me back from being much better than I am. 

On the other hand, cancer may be easier to tackle than the other factors that make for a questionable quality of life, hard to believe as this may be.