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How do you respond to offers of help?

Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Jun 5 11:31am | Replies (103)

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My husband has PNET, he was diagnosed 2 years ago. While in the supermarket one day (I had finally used the phrase, my husband is dying from Cancer, so it was a reality in the face day) I ran into a friend I knew from town, she asked how hubby was, I answered, then she LAUNCHED into a dissertation about a Rife machine! And then after politely declining, she went on! She then told me how a man from our town cured himself with this Rife machine, She then said if I buy this machine for $15,000, she will buy it from me when i'm finished with it. I told her it was odd as the man from town was in my clinical trial.......When I saw her again, the same thing! AND she did it to friend of mine that just had double mastectomy etc.....I just think it's a very personal thing and I was very taken a back! At one point, I asked her if she knew what type of cancer he had and how it works? Any suggestions?

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I'm so sorry this is happening. You don't owe anything to her. It's OK just to turn your back and walk away. Perhaps she's trying to exploit you, or perhaps not, but you need only positive and supportive people in your life right now, not people pushing snake oil. Optionally, you can share a link with her like this one (but it's unlikely that it will convince her if she already believes in magic-magnet machines):

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/rife-machine-and-cancer

I had to look up what a Rife Machine was. Apparently they sell on Ebay for about $1500. A "friend" trying to sell me something at 10x street value isn't much of a friend!

That aside, I am very sorry to hear of your husband's condition.

Stick with people who are on your side. Not everyone who offers "help" is in that category.