Sunday, July 29, 2012

What an extremely busy time we have had this past week!  A trip to Portland for a Dr. appt and shopping took one entire day.  Besides that, several consultations with Dr. Daniel and the regular chores that need doing took the rest of the time.

Leland is doing fairly well at present, but tired most of the time.  The nausea still is troublesome, but we have a remedy for that which is very helpful, so at least he is not suffering from that all the time.  Interestingly, hunger manifests itself as nausea to him, so I try really hard not to make him wait for meals.  If he gets hungry too far ahead of time a few raw almonds seem to  help.

We completed the cleanse yesterday, all 6 days of it. We were both pretty tired of juice with a lot of fiber and only raw foods.  However, I think it accomplished the purpose of restored bowel function. ( dysfunction brought on by the Zofran generic)

We are still waiting for Leland to be able to get his blood work done, and waiting to find out where the MRI will be done-in Portland somewhere.  There was an office snafu, but a phone call on Friday got it straightened out, so hopefully the blood work will be done this week, and the MRI sometime next week. 

My brother asked me a valid question on Friday which was "If the natural treatments make him nearly as sick as chemotherapy, then what is the difference?"  OK, the difference is this: chemotherapy is extremely toxic and destroys normal tissue and the immune system right along with the cancer-if indeed it does eradicate the cancer at all. Even in the event that "natural " therapy does not destroy the cancer it at least leaves the normal tissue and immune system intact, allowing for these systems to be strengthened by nutritional supplements when necessary.  Prostate cancer does not respond well to chemotherapy so it is seldom used, hormone therapy is the medical first treatment for advanced Prostate Cancer, then radiation.  Hormone therapy may buy some time, but is not considered a cure by any reputable doctor;  only a temporary "fix" to buy time before starting radiation.    Radiation has the same effects basically as chemotherapy, destroying all normal tissue and organs in the nearby area-extremely damaging. 

According to my study, chemo is effective against ovarian cancer and two others which I don't remember right now, so many times is effective for that, but is very risky for other types of cancer.

It seems there is no way to deal with cancer which does not make the host sick!

Cherilyn has been here this weekend, which is wonderful.  Mark, Tina and Grant will come tomorrow and stay until Friday, then Norm arrives on Friday.  So lots of family and lots of love.

 God is good, He makes no mistakes and has a plan for each one of us; we know we fit in there somewhere!