My Cousin Had End-Stage Cancer

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Dearest my blog readers,

Wishing you a very Happy New Year, filled with Peace, Love and Joy!

Lots of Love from Saya💖

"I will bring you good luck 💕"

(Translated and arranged by Saya)

This is a story about my cousin. 

My cousin and I are very close. 

When my cousin turned 25, he was diagnosed as having end-stage cancer. 

The whole family was disheartened by the news because he was a person of great promise.

He had a girlfriend at the time, but he broke up with her after giving her some white lie, so that she wouldn't have to suffer with him.

One year had passed since the diagnosis, and he was still alive thanks to anticancer drugs; but they were slowly losing their effectiveness, and the tumour was growing bigger and bigger.

Up until then, he had kept his spirits up, but now having realised that his days were numbered, he began to often bring up the topic of death in our conversations.

I tried to ease his mind by giving him these words of comfort:

"The remedy for cancer might exist within your own body. Starting today, you should pray for your recovery by repeating some phrases every day, like mantras, in your head."

(This has no scientific basis. I just read it in a book called something like "Miraculous Recovery from Cancer.")

Another month had passed, and one day my cousin told me a strange story when I visited him in the hospital.

He told me that he had been having the same dream once every week, and it was about a man in white coat riding on a large white serpent, who would visit him to give him some medical treatment. 

"It looks like the tumour has already spread to the brain," we laughed, making a joke out of it.

However, from then on, strange changes started happening to his body.

He began to get his physical strength and appetite back. 

The tumours inside him not even stopped growing bigger, but they were shrinking.

"It may be possible to remove it now," the doctor said. But I couldn't believe his words because he only managed to perform a palliative surgery on him before. 

But they decided to go ahead with the surgery. The day before it was scheduled, my cousin had a dream in which the man in white coat appeared again.

"This is the last treatment you will receive from me," he said.

"Who are you?"

My cousin asked him on the spur of the moment.

"I am someone you have created," the man replied.

The surgery was successful. Or rather, they discovered that almost no tumour was left in his body.

"Did he get treatment elsewhere?"

"Why?"

The doctor looked perplexed.

"I saw some new surgical wounds that I didn't recognize.... Perhaps I am mistaken...." 

I was shocked. Actually, I was quite creeped out.

The doctor said that he knew some very rare cases in the past where patients made a full recovery from terminal cancer. 

I thought those wounds must have been made by that doctor in my cousin's dream, but of course I didn't say anything because no one would have believed me. 

That was not the end of the miracle.

After having fully recovered from the cancer, he --- being an honest man --- contacted his ex girlfriend for the first time in months, only because he wanted to apologize to her. 

A few years later, they got married. The ceremony took place only a few days ago. 

I must add that the whole family of the groom was in tears throughout the ceremony, knowing the ordeal he had gone through. 

⭐Some responses to the story:

I heard before about a boy in a foreign country who had an inoperable brain tumour, and he kept visualising in his head "I won't be defeated by the tumour," and "the tumour is disappearing." 

One day he woke up and suddenly said, "my tumours are gone!" 

The doctors examined him and found that the tumours were indeed gone. 

My boyfriend has had lung cancer for six years. 

The 5 year survival rate for lung cancer is about 5% (Note: now it has apparently increased to 20-something %)...But somehow he is almost cured of it now.

I think it's because I have been to Izumo Taisha and Oisemairi (Note: pilgrimage to Ise Grand Shrine) and prayed to the gods that I will give half of my lifespan if only they will cure my boyfriend.

Once I was told that my lifespan was 87 years old. I didn't want to live that long, so it's OK by me. 

The god Asclepius carries a snake or rides on a snake, doesn't he?

That's why many health institutes use Asclepius's rod  in their logo.

Even if the cousin knew about Asclepius, it isn't a well-known god in Japan, so I'm impressed that it made an appearance SP naturally in his visualisation.

In Japan too, we have Omononushi, who is a god of medicine and snake.

I have seen it on a TV documentary too! Someone visualized shooting their cancer with a gun or something every day, and in time it was gone! I remember it because I thought if I ever had cancer in the future I would try doing the same thing.

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In Japan, white snake is regarded as a scared creature that brings good luck (especially financial luck)!

⭐Reasons why White Snake is lucky:

1. White Snake is rare and its rarity led people to believe that it is a bringer of good luck.

2. Snake is the god of water (like dragon), and water is the source of all living things.

3. Snake preys on mice which damage grains.

4. Snake has amazing vitality --- it can survive on very little food.

5. Its shedding of skin symbolises renewal, healing, and long life.

6. The pattern on the snake skin resembles the gold coin (koban 小判).

7. It is a messenger of Benzaiten who is a goddess of  wealth (links below)

🧡Benzaiten: White Snake Goddess of Japan

Benzaiten (Wikipeda)

The famous white snake shrines:

🧡Iwakuni Shirohebi (White Snake) Shrine

Natural Treasure White Snakes of Iwakuni

This video shows the real white snakes of Iwakuni at the end!

🧡Hebikubo (Kamishinmei-tenso) Shrine

Twitter Account:

https://twitter.com/kamisinmeitenso?t=t9G0-CBt36jjH7D1DNRIYw&s=09

New Year's Eve Purification Ritual 

How to Enjoy Hebikubo Shrine (VR video)

White Snake Prayer: 

White Snake God will grant you any wish!

🧡The Tanuki and the White Snake (Old Japanese Tale)