Beating Cancer with Attitude and Food

Going on a three year battle with Breast Cancer is getting boring! This thing started with the traditional - detection, surgery, chemo, second opinion, radiation. Then it moved on. This is at the point that I started questioning and asking questions. Face it this had been a year of fatique, no pizza, and doctors! Not my life style. I was working and my co-workers were an inspiration. At the end of a year I started having pain in my hip - I was out of a job and learned the breast cancer was now in my bones. More than ever I knew I had to look at the good in life, treat the problems, but not dwell on them. In total I have had 5 various types of chemotherapy, the surgery to start the process, and then radiation. After all this I find out that maybe the surgeon wasn't as diligent as he should have been - my primary lymph nodes were fully engulfed with cancer but they didn't take any more nodes out - NOT standard practice. That is water under the bridge - I still have the cancer in my bones growing.

I am going to be getting a radioactive injection for the next treatment -don't even know the name of it yet - hope this works. But - I am being more proactive with my food intake and following Dr. Jane Plant's food plan. No dairy, cut out preservatives, lots of organic, fresh veggies, and fruit. Now that is a tall order for the daughter of a dairy farmer. My journey continues so I can't give any results. Along with this I am keeping up my belief that Attitude is the most important thing followed closely by humor. Satelite TV with old situation comedies and movies is great. Smile Life is too Short to Frown

Nearing the end of August and the blood counts should be recovering from the Quadrement injection. Another week and I get more tests to see if we now have it all under control - then maybe the energy will start coming back.

September here and gone. October 1. The Quadrement did a job on what was there but tests show more spots and some in the head. I've just finished 2 weeks of radiation to the brain and so we wait to check that out. After the two weeks I got all the details of this tiny little pill they were giving me - a steroid- to keep swelling down on the brain during radiation. I have been ravenous since I have taken it but never put that together - believe me cancer has not diminished my appetite in any way at any time (except for the indigestion with tomato sauce but that always goes away). This little pill not only gives you some swallowing problems which I did comprehend but you just go back to chewing better - you know like in grade school when they told you to chew each bite 20 or 30 times. I have had a bad case of bronchitis for this past week and a half which just added to it. I would go to the kitchen, eat everything in sight and head back to the bed. The antibotics are finally doing in the bronchitis and they are gradually taking me off the other little pill - a whole month to gradually come off it!

A week since the last radiation treatment and the broncitis is on the way out! I feel human again. I'm really concentrating on my diet as to starving the cancer cells and will be starting another round of chemo in a bout a month and a half. If you haven't checked out my lens on "Your Life in Your Hands" you might do that to see the meal plan/program.