Medical Update

I've been concentrating on this diet so much, I hadn't really thought about my cancer.  I decided to share some thoughts and updates.

The last pill gave me a severe allergic reaction so I stopped them.  I was only supposed to stop for a week, but to tell the truth, I'm too scared to go back on it.  I don't like allergic reactions.  It's the body's way of saying STOP taking this, it's hurting you. It's still about 5 days until I see my doctor.

My doctor is not opposed to alternative medicine, but he wants to use it in conjunction with modern medicine.  I don't know what he's going to put me on instead of this pill.  He explained that it blocks more receptors than Herceptin (which I'm also allergic to). I was beginning to think I was over-reacting, but I took my 22 year old son (who is handicapped) to the doctor to get his test results back.  He has gout, and the med they want to put him on could cause a rash.  If it does, I'm supposed to stop immediately.  That re-enforces my decision to not go back on it.  It is a possibility.

I feel great.  I'm still a bit tired at times, but only if I get cocky and try to do more than I should.  Today I had to run to the doctor for the lab results for my son, then in the waiting room got a call that his glasses were ready and had to run there.  I had to drop off his prescriptions and then run to the bank and all that running necessitated a nap.  I still haven't gotten in the swing of cooking every night and some nights we just have a sandwich.  I had planned on tuna noodle casserole tonight, but I think we're having tuna fish sandwiches instead.  But at least I'm not sitting in a chair unable to walk across the floor.

My hair is slowly filling in.  I still feel like Golum....just patches that are halfway thick, with patches that are REALLY thin.  I'm getting creative on how to tie a scarf.  I've increased my wardrobe of scarfs so I have one for every color of outfit.  I prefer the cotton-ish or linen-ish ones, as opposed to the silky ones.  I suppose with half of them being silky, I should just get a wig liner so they don't slip.

I have doubled my dose of Laetrile...now I'm taking 200 mg.  I started out taking 100 mg morning and then again at night.  But it seems to make me a bit sleepy, like my body wants to sleep so it can heal.  So, I take both at night.  I've dropped my cholesterol meds and my high blood pressure meds.  I had a blood test recently, but don't know the results.  The body will make what it needs, and if there's a blockage, it will make more to make sure it gets what  it needs.  I'm trying to eat more broccoli and the other natural inflammation reducers.  My pressure is good, just don't know about the cholesterol.

I'll keep doing updates, on medical condition and diet success.  The main reason for the diet is that my doctor said to cut out sugar (which is HARDER than it sounds - I believe it is addictive) and exercise more.  Right now, just keeping up with my house is my exercise.  I hope to be energetic enough to take the dogs for a walk.  Right now I can only handle letting the cat out on a leash.  You don't really walk cats, you let them explore at their own pace, which mine is terrified of the outside and keeps to the house foundation and bushes.  It's actually quite amusing.