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Today JSP and I spent the day making fresh organic vegetable and fruit juices and running errands with my sister Julie. I was hoping to be able to write about successfully drinking thirteen glasses of fresh juice today. Realistically however, I consumed probably only five or six 8 oz. glasses of juice. Partly I felt short of my goal because I felt some nausea today. I wanted to blame my nausea on the vegetables and juices, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this unpleasant feeling was probably a lingering effect from the radiation treatments of the last two days. I would probably have felt nausea today no matter what I was eating.

Julie had some wild adventures with our Norwalk juicer. "I think I am doing something wrong!" she called out from the kitchen as I heard the juicer whir. I went to the kitchen to see fruit and vegetable matter flying upwards out of the juicer and sticking to the kitchen ceiling and walls.

"No, that looks about right." Plant matter again violently sprayed the ceiling from the juicer. Working together on our juicing technique, we figured out how to minimize the projectile vegetation and maximize the flow of juice.

Yesterday and today I felt quite good. I felt less negative physical reactions from my second radiation treatment than from the first. I had less headache and less overall sick feeling. I enjoyed having the day off from radiation today.

In addition to the juicing, Julie and I went for a walk around Como Lake in St. Paul. We bundled up well and enjoyed walking and talking with each other in a scenic place that we each remembered spending lots of time in high school. We had tea at Ginko Coffeehouse to warm us back up before heading back home.

Today I was able to take stock of the requirements of the Gerson therapy and come to some conclusions regarding the time commitment needed to follow it. I also had my first coffee enema, but chances are you are not very interested in learning about that in any great detail. It functions as a sort of dialysis for your liver and bile ducts, reportedly helping your body to remove toxins from your blood. I'll just say that it went fine and was much easier than I'd expected.

I look forward to taking Julie with me to my soccer game tomorrow. I feel really good today and I hope that my body continues to be tolerant of my upcoming radiation treatments this week.

Labels: cold weather, juicing, Melanoma, radiation

 kc-risenphoenix wrote:
Hey! This is Ben! Texas Bill let me know about your blog and I was very excited. Now I will be able to follow everything that is going on! Hurray! Next best thing to you having a live journal!

Love you, my friend. Got your name curled in Ganesha's fist!

Gentle Ben