ABOUT
I always wanted to have a blog however this would not have been my first subject of choice.
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I have just begun to realize that this journey would be impossible to go alone. So far, it has been a humbling experience struggling through the emotional and physical highs and lows. I failed often in keeping a positive attitude and I realized how important friends & family were important to my healing. I want to thank all of my friends and family for your love and support.
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This idea of having a blog to keep connected with everyone as I move forward came from a brilliant idea from Kelly & Lisa. Thank you! This was an excellent way to keep everyone in the loop while I immersed myself into a healing environment.
Probably need some context of how I got here first. This journey actually started 5 years ago when I found out I had colon cancer and had it surgically removed. By all standards the surgery was a success. Entering the hospital room and slapping me on the back, the Dr. was so please to share the news that he “Got it all!” 6” of colon had been removed with lymph nodes. He failed to notice that I was holding a bed pan purging what little water I had managed to drink, wanting me to look at the photos he took during the surgery. It was surreal… I had cancer then it was gone. Interestingly, he stated there was no genetic component. I only later found out the only 10-15% of cancers have a genetic component.
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I had been reading about a young man with stage 4 colon cancer who had survived by taking a different approach. Chris Beats Cancer was filled with information about successful alternative cures using nutrition and siting his sources. Many of these treatments were the first I had ever heard of with supporting clinical studies. After my surgery, I had put the book away with the thought, I had not beaten cancer, but had just dodged a bullet by catching it in time.
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Over the next several years, I had taken living for granted. I lost my interest in maintaining my daily meditation, exercise and nutrition. I allowed the frustration of the world to influence my attitude. I stayed with an unfulfilling job too long. My career had deviated from the path I expected. All of this dissatisfaction went uncheck and un-managed. How quickly I had forgotten the long and painful recovery. The only positive change I had made was to include beets in my diet. I remembered reading before the surgery about a study that beet juice killed colon cancer.
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Last June, I had been having sporadic pain all over my chest and lower back. I figured I had stressed my body to the point it needed to be addressed. I would only get short bouts of temporary relief. Just before Thanksgiving, it had become a daily occurrence. Remembering that it had been almost exactly 5 years since my surgery, a warning light turned on in my head. I decided to make a radical change. I had started chewing about a year ago, stopped my daily exercise routine and I was inconsistent with eating 3 meals a day, often leaving out the vegetables. I decided to quit chewing cold turkey, eat regularly with a more balanced nutrition and start my exercise routine back up. Making these changes produced no positive results. I now had insomnia to go along with my worsening pain.
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I decided to get a full blood work panel to see if something was seriously wrong. White blood cells were slightly high, but not conclusive and also normal, as I had been fighting a cold for over 5 weeks. What did stand out, were massively elevated liver enzymes. The liver was not functioning well. I set up an appointment with a hepatologist (liver) doctor to review the results. He agreed that maybe I had an infection and ordered hepatitis tests, while also ordering a CT scan. It was only several hours after the scan that he called and said I had a 15cm mass on my liver. He said it would be rare that it was a new form of cancer, but that the colon cancer had matastasized in the liver. I was to schedule a liver biopsy for the Friday before Christmas.
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It was confirmed…colon cancer. I was shocked and devastated.
The news got better…It was too big to be operated on and it had spread to some of the lymph nodes, which eliminated me as a candidate for a liver transplant. I lost hope. He said an oncologist would give the final recommendation, but I already knew the answer, Chemotherapy/Radiation would be the recommendation. This treatment gives limited success, still leaving behind cancer cells and chemo resistant new tumors. I had seen this first hand with several friends who underwent this route of treatment. This was not the picture I had in mind for my quality of life. Please understand, that I am not against chemo and radiation, it still might be part of my future, but in a much more prescriptive way. I can only tell you, this journey is personal and unique for those that have to make such choices. I wanted more options.
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There had to be another way, so I dusted off the book Chris Beats Cancer. Some of the procedures are well documented in his book. I wanted to explore progressive and innovative new procedures. The internet is filled with tens of thousands of people who had had been in similar situations and eliminated their tumors through alternative protocols. Nutrition is a major component underlying all of these procedures. Each one seemed as though they were an anomaly until looked at collectively, a pattern of success emerges. This was MY answer.
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Treatment centers all over the world are having great success in shrinking and eliminating cancer by treating the whole person not just the disease.
I felt as though this was the best chance of success for me.
I have called my new home for the next 3 weeks a spa to keep myself in a positive mind state. This is my journey and I cannot express how important all your love, support and encouragement mean to me. Each day I will try to post an update on the blog so you can follow my progress.
