Pass on Radiation

Since my last blog, it has been very busy. Lots of ideas flowing through my mind and not a lot of decisions made in the meantime. Today I did reach the decision to not have radiation because of a number of factors. The side effects was the icing on the cake but really it comes to my belief on how I will get better. After speaking to a few people, reading, and viewing, they all had the same message: the body has the ability to repair itself and you can help your body in doing this by not adding more strain on it. For example, by diet, exercise, stress release, supplements, visualization, and sheer determination. I saw a healer, a qi gong master, and another naturopathic oncologist. All had very interesting things to say and focus on supporting your body in the healing process. It was a very difficult decision to not do radiation but once I've made the choice, I can't look back. The outcome of my decision is not in my hands anymore and I just have to concentrate on each day at a time.

The naturopath gave some promising method of treating me called hyperthermia which involves heating up certain areas of your body where there is cancer. Cancer cannot live in heat above 42 degrees. Hyperthermia heats the body to 49 degrees and radiation is 90 degrees! This method works best with chemo and raises it's efficacy but he's had a lot of patients in my situation who just did the heating and were successful. A guy from Boston had 20 tumours in his brain and all but one needs to be treated. I have to think about how I want to proceed with this but he is hopeful with the chemo drug that the agency has offered me. I'm just not sure I want to go there. The good thing is, I am seeing a very good chinese herbalist recommended by the qi gong master tomorrow and when I mentioned that to the naturopath, he was very supportive of it. Finally, someone who spoke my language and wasn't afraid of alternatives!

People want to know if I'm going to Florida and I haven't decided that yet either. Right now, my plans are open and I am not committing to anything because there's more research to be done. If I can get the same help here, why bother flying somewhere else for the same thing? I don't want to leave the family if it's not absolutely necessary.

I also want to thank all my friends at Windsor Elementary for my fancy juicer! It has been used several times a day and I could not do without it so thank you for your generosity.

Love, J