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Monday, December 15, 2008
Home
James Michael Hartman Jr. went home to be with the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior, Saturday December 13 at 8:20pm. Until we meet again.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Update on Chemo/Radiation/VitC
Well for now I really do not know what to say given that the doctors really haven't said much other than " moving forward".
But another thing that we have been looking at is "hyper-immunized milk" that was introduced to me by someone that had posted a comment on my blog. So right now we are trying to get a hold of an Amish gentleman that sells colostrum and may be able to point us in the right direction to proceed. But as far as I can tell he just sells produce so we're praying for the increase of the Lord if it is His will.
It's been awhile since I posted but that was due to strength issues. And over the past 2 weeks it's been a struggle between pain and fatigue. To the point that most time I've had to have people read to me given that I didn't have the strength to do it myself. We thank you for the prayers that went out to the brothers that came to visit. So were praying for his safe return back to Argentina to his family Lord willing. The Lord is merciful!
JMHJ
But another thing that we have been looking at is "hyper-immunized milk" that was introduced to me by someone that had posted a comment on my blog. So right now we are trying to get a hold of an Amish gentleman that sells colostrum and may be able to point us in the right direction to proceed. But as far as I can tell he just sells produce so we're praying for the increase of the Lord if it is His will.
It's been awhile since I posted but that was due to strength issues. And over the past 2 weeks it's been a struggle between pain and fatigue. To the point that most time I've had to have people read to me given that I didn't have the strength to do it myself. We thank you for the prayers that went out to the brothers that came to visit. So were praying for his safe return back to Argentina to his family Lord willing. The Lord is merciful!
JMHJ
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Chemo plus Radiation
The latest plan that the doctors have come up with is that on Monday they want to start doing the chemo along with the radiation because of the speed at which the cancer is growing. They gave me this news on Friday when I went in to see my oncologist for an appointment. Of course the other news was that I had 6 months to a year if things went well. Well last time that I checked the Lord was the only one that knew my appointed time.
Just to give kind of a refresher course on this whole experience, so all of you have a better idea, in Feb 2007 diagnosed with testicular cancer. From the get go, I started off with a a very strict regimen, basically just vegetables, herbs and supplements. No meats and hardly any fruits. This lasted for about 4 months then started to do the chemo given that there was no effect. After this it was about August when the cancer started to come back with force. Numbers were low so i hit it with everything, Joanna Budwig diet, green shakes, barley pills, on and on and on. Over 100 oz of juice a day, carrot, broccoli, beets, garlic and on. My pH was like 9.5 to 10. But the cancer remained full speed ahead and grew stronger and faster. So after this is when I went to stem cell recovery to where I am now.
I am not saying that the people that are on the Internet are lying or any such thing but nobody has come to me with a regiment that has even begun to work. Of course everybody has the magic drink, or concoction, but none seem to work. So by God's good grace I continue to search but only if he gives the increase is anything going to work. That is the ultimate to the end of this whole excursion, only by His increase will anything work.
So I am absolutely obliged to anyone that has a direction for me to go, but this will give you all a better idea in that i have done the raw food, no sugar, high pH, mangosteen, flax seed oil/cottage cheese, nutrition, fermented foods, and not only that but have done them together for quite a while.
Oh, and now I even started doing Vit. C infusion so we'll see how that goes. Its suppose to help with side effects of chemo if nothing else, but we'll see. Praise the Lord.
JMHJ
Just to give kind of a refresher course on this whole experience, so all of you have a better idea, in Feb 2007 diagnosed with testicular cancer. From the get go, I started off with a a very strict regimen, basically just vegetables, herbs and supplements. No meats and hardly any fruits. This lasted for about 4 months then started to do the chemo given that there was no effect. After this it was about August when the cancer started to come back with force. Numbers were low so i hit it with everything, Joanna Budwig diet, green shakes, barley pills, on and on and on. Over 100 oz of juice a day, carrot, broccoli, beets, garlic and on. My pH was like 9.5 to 10. But the cancer remained full speed ahead and grew stronger and faster. So after this is when I went to stem cell recovery to where I am now.
I am not saying that the people that are on the Internet are lying or any such thing but nobody has come to me with a regiment that has even begun to work. Of course everybody has the magic drink, or concoction, but none seem to work. So by God's good grace I continue to search but only if he gives the increase is anything going to work. That is the ultimate to the end of this whole excursion, only by His increase will anything work.
So I am absolutely obliged to anyone that has a direction for me to go, but this will give you all a better idea in that i have done the raw food, no sugar, high pH, mangosteen, flax seed oil/cottage cheese, nutrition, fermented foods, and not only that but have done them together for quite a while.
Oh, and now I even started doing Vit. C infusion so we'll see how that goes. Its suppose to help with side effects of chemo if nothing else, but we'll see. Praise the Lord.
JMHJ
Sunday, November 23, 2008
The Lord's Will
This be kind of a short post given the day that I had. I had to go to the hospital today, the right side of my mid-section became numb and almost uncontrollable and my heart felt as though it was going to pound out of my chest. Long story short, I have a 2cm tumor pushing on my brain. The one place I really didn't want the cancer to spread to, but this is God's will. To all of you that I may or may not see again in this world, I pray for the Lord to guide and direct your paths to everlasting life. And for those of you that may just be lost sheep, I pray the Lord uses the necessary means to crush your heart and give you eyes to see and ears to hear.
I do have a wonderful brother coming up from Argentina to lend a hand in this perilous time, I only ask that you pray for his family while he is away and for his safe travel to and from.
Until we hear the trumpet sound, come Lord Jesus Christ come, who is the Alpha and the Omega, Amen!
Jim
I do have a wonderful brother coming up from Argentina to lend a hand in this perilous time, I only ask that you pray for his family while he is away and for his safe travel to and from.
Until we hear the trumpet sound, come Lord Jesus Christ come, who is the Alpha and the Omega, Amen!
Jim
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Vitamin C / Radiation
I started my first round of Vita. C yesterday. Except for that it made me extremely tired it went well. I felt a lot better doing vitamin c than doing any of the chemo that I have experienced. I do believe that to be more psychological than anything but what ever works.
This is kind of a bunch of updates at once, the one above which was last Wednesday and this next one which happened on Friday. I went to UMMC on Friday to get some test done to see if I even qualify for radiation. All actually went well, but what a tiring day. When I got there the first thing they did was to prepare me for surgery. The whole idea was to put a camera in my artery starting in my groin area and feed it up to my liver. Two things were to come out of this. One was to measure the amount of blood flowing to my liver to be sure their was enough. And the other was to deposit a small amount of those radioactive glass beads and make sure no more than a certain amount escaped into my lungs. Kind of like a "dry run" if you will. If to many would escape it would cause a lot of scare tissue in the lungs which would obviously cause more problems than help. So they are to call me this Monday about their findings.
Then after that i had to go downstairs to radiation to have a cast made of my mid-section for when they do the radiation therapy. The idea is that this will pinpoint each tumor and burn each one up. So between waiting and the actual cast fitting it took another three hours. So total for the day, we started 5:30 in the morning and did not get home until 7:30 Friday night. So you can imagine how tired i was when i finally got home.
So the Lord gave us a wonderful sabbath to rest up. And rest up we did, slept most of the day but did get some good studying in until the nurse showed up to change my port anyway.
This Tuesday i go back in for another dose of the vitamin c. Lord willing this will take care of the problem that i will not have to do any radiation.
Well this is the update to this point so far. Lord willing these updates will become more frequent about the homestead and less frequent about the cancer. But we'll see.
JMHJ
This is kind of a bunch of updates at once, the one above which was last Wednesday and this next one which happened on Friday. I went to UMMC on Friday to get some test done to see if I even qualify for radiation. All actually went well, but what a tiring day. When I got there the first thing they did was to prepare me for surgery. The whole idea was to put a camera in my artery starting in my groin area and feed it up to my liver. Two things were to come out of this. One was to measure the amount of blood flowing to my liver to be sure their was enough. And the other was to deposit a small amount of those radioactive glass beads and make sure no more than a certain amount escaped into my lungs. Kind of like a "dry run" if you will. If to many would escape it would cause a lot of scare tissue in the lungs which would obviously cause more problems than help. So they are to call me this Monday about their findings.
Then after that i had to go downstairs to radiation to have a cast made of my mid-section for when they do the radiation therapy. The idea is that this will pinpoint each tumor and burn each one up. So between waiting and the actual cast fitting it took another three hours. So total for the day, we started 5:30 in the morning and did not get home until 7:30 Friday night. So you can imagine how tired i was when i finally got home.
So the Lord gave us a wonderful sabbath to rest up. And rest up we did, slept most of the day but did get some good studying in until the nurse showed up to change my port anyway.
This Tuesday i go back in for another dose of the vitamin c. Lord willing this will take care of the problem that i will not have to do any radiation.
Well this is the update to this point so far. Lord willing these updates will become more frequent about the homestead and less frequent about the cancer. But we'll see.
JMHJ
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