Like a yoyo, this morning I was awaken by the back pain on my shoulder blade area again, just when I thought things were getting back to normal. To ease the pain, I quickly slept face down. I was wondering what could have been the cause? Yesterday, I spent sometime resting in bed and was watching a documentary for about an hour on my notebook. I have this muscle stiffness problem. What this means is that if my body stay at a certain position for too long, the muscles becomes stiff and as a result, there will be pain when I move position. This also happens during my pre-cancer days. One way to overcome this problem is to do stretching and some exercises (such as jogging and swimming). However, since I got cancer, I am just into simple stretching exercises.
My current problem is the usual mouth ulcers, I think there are 3 of them. A little disturbing especially during eating time but I can live with it. The stomach gases problem seems to have left. So I am having a relative good time, looks like all systems are go.
Last few days I have also been doing some weeding and tree pruning around the house. I have been careful so as not to strain myself too much, sometimes working for most up to an hour at a time only. Even then, my muscles will pain from carrying the showel or other tools, especially underneath my armpit at the end of the day. I always get this problem when I start to work after a long rests.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
It's Not Over Until You Say It's Over
So far, the pain at the should blade area did not recurr and my sleep was quite good. My schedule has been disrupted a bit since I started doing clean water enema prior to the coffee enema. The time taken to do coffee enema has now increased by about 20 minutes. Has there been an improvement? At this moment, I don't know. It is now much easier to do the coffee enema. The discharge for the coffee enema is still smelly and as before, psychologically I always feel much better after an enema.
For those of you who have constipation problem may consider doing a clean water (always use distilled water) enema if you are not comfortable doing coffee enema. Constipation can become a major health problem as the colon gets clogged up and traps the toxic waste that should be eliminated. Contributors to constipation are habitual in nature. The key contributor is from a regular diet of refined and processed foods. The other contributors are a lack of fiber, some medications, especially pain killers, excess iron, antidepressants, food allergies, tap water, lack of magnesium and potassium, poor muscle tone, lack of water, hypothyroidism and obesity.
I am a little busy these few days because I need to do some research for some of the materials that I want to post later. I am also assisting a lady in her late 50s who is now on chemotherapy for her lung cancer. I am also gathering information to help her deal with the side effects of chemo and her constipation problem. I think I may have found something for her and will post them later. There is no money involved. Why am I doing this? Because she desperately needs help and I was told she is on the verge of giving up. Life is precious, so I do what I can as others have done for me.
For those of you who have constipation problem may consider doing a clean water (always use distilled water) enema if you are not comfortable doing coffee enema. Constipation can become a major health problem as the colon gets clogged up and traps the toxic waste that should be eliminated. Contributors to constipation are habitual in nature. The key contributor is from a regular diet of refined and processed foods. The other contributors are a lack of fiber, some medications, especially pain killers, excess iron, antidepressants, food allergies, tap water, lack of magnesium and potassium, poor muscle tone, lack of water, hypothyroidism and obesity.
I am a little busy these few days because I need to do some research for some of the materials that I want to post later. I am also assisting a lady in her late 50s who is now on chemotherapy for her lung cancer. I am also gathering information to help her deal with the side effects of chemo and her constipation problem. I think I may have found something for her and will post them later. There is no money involved. Why am I doing this? Because she desperately needs help and I was told she is on the verge of giving up. Life is precious, so I do what I can as others have done for me.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Shifting Clouds, Sunshine Ahead?
Yesterday night before I went to bed, I asked my wife to give me a light massage around the shoulder blade area. I slept much better last night nor was I awaken by any shoulder or back pain. As I have lost lots of muscles during the early stages of the therapy, I noticed I can easily hurt myself with simple knocks and its painful. I just have to be more careful during this period.
Next weekend, I will be travelling to Singapore to see my Homeopathy doctor for follow-up medication. I will also try to visit KC for the first time, someone I wanted to meet way back in March 2010 but could not then. KC has colon cancer and exhausted conventional treatments and now doing Gerson. He is under supervision of a therapist and I would like to meet him to learn more from him, especially on the healing reactions and body pains. He was also the one that introduced me where to get Gerson supplements in Singapore (could not get them in Malaysia).
I am now researching on the nutritional differences between eating potatoes and brown rice. As Asians, our diet is predominantly rice based. Under Gerson, we are recommended to take brown rice only once a week, but what if we use rice to replace potatoes on a daily basis? What is the impact on the tumors? For me, I have and still do take brown rice but for short periods of time, when I have problems eating potatoes.
Next weekend, I will be travelling to Singapore to see my Homeopathy doctor for follow-up medication. I will also try to visit KC for the first time, someone I wanted to meet way back in March 2010 but could not then. KC has colon cancer and exhausted conventional treatments and now doing Gerson. He is under supervision of a therapist and I would like to meet him to learn more from him, especially on the healing reactions and body pains. He was also the one that introduced me where to get Gerson supplements in Singapore (could not get them in Malaysia).
I am now researching on the nutritional differences between eating potatoes and brown rice. As Asians, our diet is predominantly rice based. Under Gerson, we are recommended to take brown rice only once a week, but what if we use rice to replace potatoes on a daily basis? What is the impact on the tumors? For me, I have and still do take brown rice but for short periods of time, when I have problems eating potatoes.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
In The Beginning
No, this is not a book on the scriptures. These are my experiences that I hope to share with you. It relates to how I follow and do the Gerson Therapy. These are NOT intented to replace the book (which you must read). I am not a doctor or a qualified therapist. The source of these information are from books that I have read. These are just to help you to get started.
These series of short notes that will covers a few areas, namely:
1. The Mind - dealing with your wondering mind, keeping focus and staying positive.
2. The Theory - my way of explaining the theory to you. You must know what you are doing.
3. The Diet - how to follow and do this difficult diet - my way; adapt it and it becomes your way.
4. Healing Reactions - what are some of them and how you can deal with it.
1. The Mind
Before we even start to talk about the therapy itself, the first area that I would like to talk about is your mind. Get this right and you are already 50% into the therapy.
Why me?
No special reason. About 40,000 new cancer cases are detected in Malaysia every year. Nobody targeted you specifically because people who are of different beliefs than you also get cancer. If you include the whole world, millions get cancer every year. Seems cancer is color and religious blind though there are now statistics to show if you are on certain diet, you run higher risk of getting cancer.
So You Now Have Cancer
Your doctor just confirmed you have cancer. Yes, go and cry your heart out, release the tension. Why you? See paragraph above for answer. So don't engage in self pity. Why are the best songs always sad songs? Because the heart thrives on sadness, making how pitiful and unfair this world and life have been to you, and with that you even cry more. Wake up, you are victim of your own doing. Think of some of the people or photographs of skeleton like children that you read and see in the newspapers that are malnutrition; who is better off? You or them? But I am not them? Then even more you should not cry because they don't have cancer and will live most probably like this for the rest of their lives (may next 50 years). I am just reminding you a fact of life that there are thousands more people worst off than you, cancer or not. Recover from your cancer and let us help these people.
OK, finish with your crying? You must stop because there are so many things to do with so little time left. Maybe you are like me, doctors say no cure. Better still, you have no fall back plan, so what you select and do is the only way for you to live. Thousands who are told by their doctors that they are going to die, survived. How did they do it? Yes, copycat reproduction, following what other people have successfully done.
Miracle Cure
Don't be infatuated by miracle cures. I have even heard money back guarantee therapy. Only problem is that if you die, you can sue him/her in Heaven/Hell. Many are scams only out for your money. Testimonials are doctored and crowds at clinic nothing more than part-time actors/actresses or cohorts. Of couse there may be some genuine ones. How do you know? Don't ask me, I don't know. Calm your heart. You cannot stopped people from enticing you this but can chose not to follow. That's why you must be informed and you get this through reading. This therapy that you are going to do has been in existence for over 80 years. Documented with clinics and therapist all over the world (except Malaysia?). A famous third party documentary film maker (DYING TO HAVE KNOWN, filmmaker: Steve Kroschel) has even verified it for you already. Thousand have benefitted and you are the next. So be focus on what you want to do and you get most from it.
Staying Positive
You now have a way to treat your cancer. Worst case is that you will die. Nothing to be afraid, the doctors have already said it and now you confront it. Now you can do something to turn it around and whatever the outcome then, it will not be worst off than death itself.
In the next instalment, I will touch on the theory of the therapy so that you can understand how this therapy can help you. Please read the Gerson book.
I apologise to anyone whom I may have offended when I use the children for comparison. I have no intention of profiting from other people's woes. What I quoted is a fact of life.
These series of short notes that will covers a few areas, namely:
1. The Mind - dealing with your wondering mind, keeping focus and staying positive.
2. The Theory - my way of explaining the theory to you. You must know what you are doing.
3. The Diet - how to follow and do this difficult diet - my way; adapt it and it becomes your way.
4. Healing Reactions - what are some of them and how you can deal with it.
1. The Mind
Before we even start to talk about the therapy itself, the first area that I would like to talk about is your mind. Get this right and you are already 50% into the therapy.
Why me?
No special reason. About 40,000 new cancer cases are detected in Malaysia every year. Nobody targeted you specifically because people who are of different beliefs than you also get cancer. If you include the whole world, millions get cancer every year. Seems cancer is color and religious blind though there are now statistics to show if you are on certain diet, you run higher risk of getting cancer.
So You Now Have Cancer
Your doctor just confirmed you have cancer. Yes, go and cry your heart out, release the tension. Why you? See paragraph above for answer. So don't engage in self pity. Why are the best songs always sad songs? Because the heart thrives on sadness, making how pitiful and unfair this world and life have been to you, and with that you even cry more. Wake up, you are victim of your own doing. Think of some of the people or photographs of skeleton like children that you read and see in the newspapers that are malnutrition; who is better off? You or them? But I am not them? Then even more you should not cry because they don't have cancer and will live most probably like this for the rest of their lives (may next 50 years). I am just reminding you a fact of life that there are thousands more people worst off than you, cancer or not. Recover from your cancer and let us help these people.
OK, finish with your crying? You must stop because there are so many things to do with so little time left. Maybe you are like me, doctors say no cure. Better still, you have no fall back plan, so what you select and do is the only way for you to live. Thousands who are told by their doctors that they are going to die, survived. How did they do it? Yes, copycat reproduction, following what other people have successfully done.
Miracle Cure
Don't be infatuated by miracle cures. I have even heard money back guarantee therapy. Only problem is that if you die, you can sue him/her in Heaven/Hell. Many are scams only out for your money. Testimonials are doctored and crowds at clinic nothing more than part-time actors/actresses or cohorts. Of couse there may be some genuine ones. How do you know? Don't ask me, I don't know. Calm your heart. You cannot stopped people from enticing you this but can chose not to follow. That's why you must be informed and you get this through reading. This therapy that you are going to do has been in existence for over 80 years. Documented with clinics and therapist all over the world (except Malaysia?). A famous third party documentary film maker (DYING TO HAVE KNOWN, filmmaker: Steve Kroschel) has even verified it for you already. Thousand have benefitted and you are the next. So be focus on what you want to do and you get most from it.
Staying Positive
You now have a way to treat your cancer. Worst case is that you will die. Nothing to be afraid, the doctors have already said it and now you confront it. Now you can do something to turn it around and whatever the outcome then, it will not be worst off than death itself.
In the next instalment, I will touch on the theory of the therapy so that you can understand how this therapy can help you. Please read the Gerson book.
I apologise to anyone whom I may have offended when I use the children for comparison. I have no intention of profiting from other people's woes. What I quoted is a fact of life.
Cloudy And A Chance Of More Pain
The last two days, I have been awaken by pain around both my shoulder blade area around 5am. I am not sure if this was due to pressure of my body because when I roll to the side, the pain would ease. However, that would put pressure on the shoulder. When I wake up, the pain would immediately cease. I am also not sure if this was connected to me using the notebook on my bed, something I have not done for a long time. So what I am going to do is to stop using my notebook on the bed and monitor the situation to see if would improve.
This morning, I would change my coffee enema routine a bit. I would do a clean water enema first before I start the enema proper. This is to hydrate the colon and remove the feces first and I hope this way, I would benefit more from the coffee enema.
Having worked with other cancer patients and their other half, I realised not many are as enthusiastic as me when it comes to reading Dr Gerson's book. Some even find reading the summarised version a chore. While most people have no problem following the juicing requirement, they have problems following of the coffee enema and the diet. Coffee enema just needs some training but the diet is the killer. I am thinking of writing a series of practical short notes about my experience and how I manage to follow the diet and hope those who have problems can follow or at least adapt it to their needs accordingly instead of abandoning it completely. Do remember I am doing Gerson Therapy alone without any help. If you can get help, you will be better off following the Gerson recipes.
This morning, I would change my coffee enema routine a bit. I would do a clean water enema first before I start the enema proper. This is to hydrate the colon and remove the feces first and I hope this way, I would benefit more from the coffee enema.
Having worked with other cancer patients and their other half, I realised not many are as enthusiastic as me when it comes to reading Dr Gerson's book. Some even find reading the summarised version a chore. While most people have no problem following the juicing requirement, they have problems following of the coffee enema and the diet. Coffee enema just needs some training but the diet is the killer. I am thinking of writing a series of practical short notes about my experience and how I manage to follow the diet and hope those who have problems can follow or at least adapt it to their needs accordingly instead of abandoning it completely. Do remember I am doing Gerson Therapy alone without any help. If you can get help, you will be better off following the Gerson recipes.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Coffee Enema
The Coffee Enema detox method are recommended both by Dr. Max Gerson and Dr. William Donald Kelly (who cured himself of pancreatic cancer in 1967). I would like to share some additional information on how coffee enema works.
Dr. Kelley recommends that you take a plain water enema (distilled water) before your coffee enema. This allows water to hydrate your colon (when a person is dehydrated and the coffee solution is used without a water enema being taken first the coffee is absorbed into the fecal matter and is wasted for the purpose of detoxification). For detoxification to occur the caffeine in the coffee solution must get to the hepatic portal vein and deliver the caffeine to the liver, which causes the bile duct to dilate and dump the stored bile in the gall bladder (the caffeine in a coffee enema gently stimulates this much needed dumping).
The liver receives two types of blood from the hepatic portal vein: (a) arterial blood from the hepatic artery, which brings fresh, oxygenated blood from the aorta and (b) portal (venous) blood which has previously passed through the intestine and spleen, which carries not only nutrients and, in the case of a person who has just taken a coffee enema, caffeine, but also various contaminants (drugs, toxins from food, bacteria, byproducts of blood-cell recycling). These two types of blood mix together in the hepatic sinusoids and, after the liver performs a diversity of functions, including the detoxification of drugs and poisons and the formation and secretion of bile — which often contains drugs and poisons — to the bile duct and gall bladder, which eventually dumps into the intestine) the blood then passes out of the liver.
To take the enema, lie on my right side on the floor or on a low bench and insert the enema tube letting the whole-quart (1 liter) of either water or the coffee solution go in and I hold it for about 5 to 10 minutes. Both Gerson and Kelley recommend holding the coffee enema 15-20 minutes, especially if you are in a “healing crises,” which is what Gerson calls the flu-like symptoms that Dr. Kelley experienced. A healing crises is the goal of every patient at the Gerson clinic and of Dr. Kelley because, even though you feel terrible, you know the treatment is working when you go into a healing crisis. Your job is to keep taking coffee enemas until the crisis is past and at that point you know you have improved your health (by dissolving toxins with the pancreatic enzymes and getting them out of your body with the coffee enemas).
Dr. Kelley recommends that you take a plain water enema (distilled water) before your coffee enema. This allows water to hydrate your colon (when a person is dehydrated and the coffee solution is used without a water enema being taken first the coffee is absorbed into the fecal matter and is wasted for the purpose of detoxification). For detoxification to occur the caffeine in the coffee solution must get to the hepatic portal vein and deliver the caffeine to the liver, which causes the bile duct to dilate and dump the stored bile in the gall bladder (the caffeine in a coffee enema gently stimulates this much needed dumping).
The liver receives two types of blood from the hepatic portal vein: (a) arterial blood from the hepatic artery, which brings fresh, oxygenated blood from the aorta and (b) portal (venous) blood which has previously passed through the intestine and spleen, which carries not only nutrients and, in the case of a person who has just taken a coffee enema, caffeine, but also various contaminants (drugs, toxins from food, bacteria, byproducts of blood-cell recycling). These two types of blood mix together in the hepatic sinusoids and, after the liver performs a diversity of functions, including the detoxification of drugs and poisons and the formation and secretion of bile — which often contains drugs and poisons — to the bile duct and gall bladder, which eventually dumps into the intestine) the blood then passes out of the liver.
To take the enema, lie on my right side on the floor or on a low bench and insert the enema tube letting the whole-quart (1 liter) of either water or the coffee solution go in and I hold it for about 5 to 10 minutes. Both Gerson and Kelley recommend holding the coffee enema 15-20 minutes, especially if you are in a “healing crises,” which is what Gerson calls the flu-like symptoms that Dr. Kelley experienced. A healing crises is the goal of every patient at the Gerson clinic and of Dr. Kelley because, even though you feel terrible, you know the treatment is working when you go into a healing crisis. Your job is to keep taking coffee enemas until the crisis is past and at that point you know you have improved your health (by dissolving toxins with the pancreatic enzymes and getting them out of your body with the coffee enemas).
Health Status @ 26 June 2010
New information are presented in italics.
Problem
Tumor mass of size of about 14cm on the right kidney and 21 and 23 over nodes all over my left and right lungs respectively with one up to 3cm in size on both lungs. Possibly also spread to the liver.
First detected on 11 September 2009 through CT Scan. Subsequent CT scan on 1 March 2010 showed some improvements on the larger nodes in the lungs but did not provide enough details on the smaller nodes. The primary tumor is now about 12.4cm, about the same size in October 2009. The two bigger nodes on the left and right lungs has reduced by about 1.5cm. However, a new node was detected about the size of 3.5cm x 3.7cm at the T6 area.
Prognosis
Consulted four urologists (one in Singapore and three in Malaysia) and two oncologists (one in Malaysia and one in Singapore). Both oncologists suggested removal of right kidney. Singapore urologist also suggested removal of kidney. The three urologists do not recommend surgery or chemotherapy. The last urologist consulted said most of his patients died within six months of surgery while two on the expensive (RM20K per month) drug Sutent is not responding. All agree that is no cure for the moment.
My urologist said my cancer is at stage 4 and did not recommend me to take any treatment. It is also my own choice not to take conventional treatment after considering all the facts of the case.
Schedule for next scan is on 1 September 2010.
MAIN THERAPIES
a. Modified Gerson Therapy
a1. Coffee Enema
Initially, four times a day for four weeks, every four hours apart. Currently three times a day in the morning, afternoon and evening for 15 minutes.
Commence castor oil enema from 23 January 2010.
a2. Nutrition Diet
All fruits and vegetables mentioned are organic.
i. Juicing - 11 fruit and vegetables juices a day beginning around 7am and ending 7pm. 5 apple+carrot, 2 carrot and 4 green vegetable juices every hourly. Liver supplements are taken together with carrot juices.
2. Diet - No oil, no sugar and no salt on all cooking. For breakfast and supper, mainly oats with some raisins, sometimes a little Manuka honey is added. For lunch and dinner, vegetables such as Siew Pak Choy, Lettuce, lady's fingers, cauliflower, broccoli and spinach are mainly steamed or boiled. K-salt is added for flavoring. A teaspoon of flaxseed oil is added when serving (but not during cooking). Mainly boiled potatoes and sometimes Somali organic brown rice is consumed. Hippocrates soup are also prepared every other day for daily consumption.
3. Supplements - K-salt, B12, niacin, lugol solution, pancreatin, pepsin and Q10.
4. Others - Rye bread, papaya, guavas, oranges and bananas are consumed at regular intervals.
b. Homeopathy Medicine
Consulting Doctor: DR AU Ramakrishnan MBBS, PhD, Chennai, India (http://www.drramakrishnan.com/)
Local Consultant: Vishuddi Lee
Treatment Started: 6 November 2009.
Consulting: Once every two months in Singapore. Next appointment 12 July 2010.
Reaction: No further reactions observed other than mouth ulcers every now and then.
COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES
c. Oxygen Therapy
Started using a personal oxygen generator with effect from 8 March 2010 about 1 hour in the evening, 20 minutes per session. Richer oxygen does help in controlling the growth of the tumors. It also reduces fatigue.
d. Zhineng Qigong
Started practicing qigong on 11 March 2010. Attend classes five times a week from 6.30am to 8am.
Health Status
Weight is still around 68±1kgs. Although body pain is minimal, yesterday night I was awaken by some back pain on my right shoulder blade. I noticed that the pain (either on left or right side) comes about when I sleep on my sides, which is my preferred sleeping position. No problems if I sleep facing up. Developed a new batch of mouth ulcers but so far it is under control.
No much changes to my diet of brown rice porridge and stewed vegetables. I have been eating a lot more lately.
Verdict
Boring but a good week.
Problem
Tumor mass of size of about 14cm on the right kidney and 21 and 23 over nodes all over my left and right lungs respectively with one up to 3cm in size on both lungs. Possibly also spread to the liver.
First detected on 11 September 2009 through CT Scan. Subsequent CT scan on 1 March 2010 showed some improvements on the larger nodes in the lungs but did not provide enough details on the smaller nodes. The primary tumor is now about 12.4cm, about the same size in October 2009. The two bigger nodes on the left and right lungs has reduced by about 1.5cm. However, a new node was detected about the size of 3.5cm x 3.7cm at the T6 area.
Prognosis
Consulted four urologists (one in Singapore and three in Malaysia) and two oncologists (one in Malaysia and one in Singapore). Both oncologists suggested removal of right kidney. Singapore urologist also suggested removal of kidney. The three urologists do not recommend surgery or chemotherapy. The last urologist consulted said most of his patients died within six months of surgery while two on the expensive (RM20K per month) drug Sutent is not responding. All agree that is no cure for the moment.
My urologist said my cancer is at stage 4 and did not recommend me to take any treatment. It is also my own choice not to take conventional treatment after considering all the facts of the case.
Schedule for next scan is on 1 September 2010.
MAIN THERAPIES
a. Modified Gerson Therapy
a1. Coffee Enema
Initially, four times a day for four weeks, every four hours apart. Currently three times a day in the morning, afternoon and evening for 15 minutes.
Commence castor oil enema from 23 January 2010.
a2. Nutrition Diet
All fruits and vegetables mentioned are organic.
i. Juicing - 11 fruit and vegetables juices a day beginning around 7am and ending 7pm. 5 apple+carrot, 2 carrot and 4 green vegetable juices every hourly. Liver supplements are taken together with carrot juices.
2. Diet - No oil, no sugar and no salt on all cooking. For breakfast and supper, mainly oats with some raisins, sometimes a little Manuka honey is added. For lunch and dinner, vegetables such as Siew Pak Choy, Lettuce, lady's fingers, cauliflower, broccoli and spinach are mainly steamed or boiled. K-salt is added for flavoring. A teaspoon of flaxseed oil is added when serving (but not during cooking). Mainly boiled potatoes and sometimes Somali organic brown rice is consumed. Hippocrates soup are also prepared every other day for daily consumption.
3. Supplements - K-salt, B12, niacin, lugol solution, pancreatin, pepsin and Q10.
4. Others - Rye bread, papaya, guavas, oranges and bananas are consumed at regular intervals.
b. Homeopathy Medicine
Consulting Doctor: DR AU Ramakrishnan MBBS, PhD, Chennai, India (http://www.drramakrishnan.com/)
Local Consultant: Vishuddi Lee
Treatment Started: 6 November 2009.
Consulting: Once every two months in Singapore. Next appointment 12 July 2010.
Reaction: No further reactions observed other than mouth ulcers every now and then.
COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES
c. Oxygen Therapy
Started using a personal oxygen generator with effect from 8 March 2010 about 1 hour in the evening, 20 minutes per session. Richer oxygen does help in controlling the growth of the tumors. It also reduces fatigue.
d. Zhineng Qigong
Started practicing qigong on 11 March 2010. Attend classes five times a week from 6.30am to 8am.
Health Status
Weight is still around 68±1kgs. Although body pain is minimal, yesterday night I was awaken by some back pain on my right shoulder blade. I noticed that the pain (either on left or right side) comes about when I sleep on my sides, which is my preferred sleeping position. No problems if I sleep facing up. Developed a new batch of mouth ulcers but so far it is under control.
No much changes to my diet of brown rice porridge and stewed vegetables. I have been eating a lot more lately.
Verdict
Boring but a good week.
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