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Now with Cancer!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Looking Forward to Discussing Treatment Options
By JB aka JayBee
Life without alcohol, salt, and refined starches and sugars is going surprisingly well. I miss drinking beer and the taste of salt, but organic produce is also very tasty and may well keep me living and breathing much longer than a typical American diet. I continue to consume a modified Gerson Therapy diet. Although I only average four glasses of juice a day, I feel like my body is responding to the greater amount of nutrition and reduced load of dietary toxins.
My body has been feeling very well, my appetite continues to grow and I love eating again. I have been eating more, both at home and at work, trying to add a few pounds if possible to my thinned frame. Drinking juices and organic peppermint or chamomile tea is part of my daily routine, along with my coffee treatments.
My body feels good, my spirits are high, and I am lucky to have friends and family who want to visit. I welcome visitors; I would almost say that I live for visitors. Come over, have some tea, play a game.
On Wednesday I have an appointment with Dr. A., my Oncologist. I hope he will be able to interpret the results of the biopsies that were done on the lumps removed from my body almost three weeks ago. I need him to help me understand what it means that of the fourteen lumps that were removed, only one was a melanoma tumor while the other thirteen were diseased lymph nodes containing cancer cells, some showing signs of necrosis (cell death) in some of the cancer cells.
I don't really understand this, I thought that all the lumps were going to be tumors. I am interested in what he will have to say about this.
Also meeting with Dr. A., I will get a good idea about when I should schedule the next round of MRI, and PT scans. I am still months away from being possibly eligible to enroll in experimental studies (due to the cancer they found and treated in my brain). If the my brain stabilizes and no new tumors are found for the next three months, then I could become a candidate for experimental trials.
JSP and I watched the film Venus last night. It was very poignant; basically about a man (Peter O'Toole) enjoying his final days and preparing to die. Despite my tears, I enjoyed the film and recommend it to those who enjoy international film.
My body has been feeling very well, my appetite continues to grow and I love eating again. I have been eating more, both at home and at work, trying to add a few pounds if possible to my thinned frame. Drinking juices and organic peppermint or chamomile tea is part of my daily routine, along with my coffee treatments.
My body feels good, my spirits are high, and I am lucky to have friends and family who want to visit. I welcome visitors; I would almost say that I live for visitors. Come over, have some tea, play a game.
On Wednesday I have an appointment with Dr. A., my Oncologist. I hope he will be able to interpret the results of the biopsies that were done on the lumps removed from my body almost three weeks ago. I need him to help me understand what it means that of the fourteen lumps that were removed, only one was a melanoma tumor while the other thirteen were diseased lymph nodes containing cancer cells, some showing signs of necrosis (cell death) in some of the cancer cells.
I don't really understand this, I thought that all the lumps were going to be tumors. I am interested in what he will have to say about this.
Also meeting with Dr. A., I will get a good idea about when I should schedule the next round of MRI, and PT scans. I am still months away from being possibly eligible to enroll in experimental studies (due to the cancer they found and treated in my brain). If the my brain stabilizes and no new tumors are found for the next three months, then I could become a candidate for experimental trials.
JSP and I watched the film Venus last night. It was very poignant; basically about a man (Peter O'Toole) enjoying his final days and preparing to die. Despite my tears, I enjoyed the film and recommend it to those who enjoy international film.
3 Comments:
Donald Engstrom-Reese wrote:
My Dearest JB,
Perhaps now would be a good time to serve you a bowl of my famous corn/mussel chowder.
What shall we have for desert?
Donald
Morgon Mae wrote:
Congratulations on loving to eat again! For me, that would be a huge quality-of-life issue.
You're going to be the Lynn Rossetto Kasper of green juice.
JB aka JayBee wrote:
Donald, Yes we should have dinner together soon.
Morgon Mae, I thought I was a total foodie, but I have no idea who Lynn Rossetto Kasper is... I'll have to google her. By the way, the green juice is my least favorite juice.