The last 2 days I’ve had many setbacks which made it difficult for me to find the energy to post. However, this is all normal when healing from cancer and today is a new day. I just continue moving forward, even if slowly, focused on how I am feeling better than I had in November. There is an underlying optimism from the feeling about my transformation of eliminating the cancer cells and the healing of my liver.
It is hard to believe that I only have one more week at the spa. I had extended my stay a couple of days since I had missed several days fasting and missing treatments for the pre-surgery tests. Yes, it is still very mind numbing to just move from back-to-back procedures, but I now visualize how each treatment impacts the cells while doing them. Seeing them under duress, seeing them being destroyed, is very satisfying! I have to admit that I am slightly addicted to this visual destruction and maybe the spa is really a camp to create cancer cereal(yes, I meant to use this word) killers.
One of the most insightful pieces of information from Dr. Tony, was that 90% of cancer cells are intelligent, highly adaptive, and will transform themselves into different types of cancer very quickly. It reminded me of the way antibiotics work. If you don’t kill all the bacteria you are targeting, they mutate and become more resistant to that antibiotic, and harder to kill. This is the same for chemotherapy, except when these cells divide, they can mutate into other types of cancer after only 2 or 3 divisions becoming a totally new type of cancer. Also, when you cut them in half you don’t destroy the cell, but create two new cells capable of dividing and mutating into other types of cancers even after chemotherapy, which won’t be completely eliminated during treatments. Additionally, 1% of the cancer cells are stem cells, which chemo does not kill. These cancer stem cells then float around in the body and can also become entirely new types of cancer. Like the Alien in Riddley Scotts' Sci-Fi movie, I am up against a formidable foe whom is perfectly adapted to survive and very difficult to defeat, but not impossible. Luckily at the spa we have a another way of breaking this cycle...targeting its weakness by using heat and our immune system.
One of the most effective treatments I receive at the spa to combat these stem cells, is the hyperthermic chamber or as I like to call it the pizza oven. By raising the body temp to fever levels between 101-104 degrees for 45 minutes using infrared, I am killing off the cancer stem cells and enlisting my immune system that has already been increased using the Sonovera that I talked about in an earlier blog. Combine this with high doses of vitamin C, to support the immune system that kill the cells, I have been also given a tool to kill cancer cells with light.
It's called photo light therapy where light sensitive particles, in this case chloroform, absorbs light from infrared LED’s that can penetrate deep into the body and activate light absorption within the cancer cells. I had ingested 4 vials of the chloroform when I arrived, not knowing why, but I have been doing 2-3 light therapy treatments every day. I will also continue these treatments for another 2 months after leaving the spa. This light treatment has been proven very effective at targeting cancer cells and killing them with light. I found this a little profound that what I was fighting needed to be exposed to the light and maybe my journey of healing began with your prayers which demonstrate that light always overcomes the darkness.
So far this has been a humbling and difficult road, but I still believe I can eliminate the cancer completely and keep it away with a new lifestyle. Focused on nutrition, changes in attitudes, better ways of handling stress, are all tools helping me heal here at the spa. Only time will tell when, but I appreciate your continued love, prayers and support. Thank you!