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
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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
Sunday, November 9, 2008
"Time to reap"
Well today we had a brother stop by today with his family. We started off by butchering the chickens and the duck. I didn't take to many, but here is a couple of pictures of the bounty from our Lord.
This is Bob taking the head off his first chicken. He had butchered plenty of deer so by the second chicken he was a pro.
This is his first born son Bobby holding the chicken while my dad teaches Bob the ropes on skinning a chicken.
And of course this is the finished product. The chicken still needed to be a little more cleaned up, which was done by our wives. Then after that we raked leaves and put them in the garden to create some organic matter for next years garden,"Lord willing". And bringing a wonderful day of fellowship to closure we all went inside for a lesson on parents and children and duties to the Lord. Praise the Lord, what a glorious day. The only thing that would have made it better is to have more brothers there. Goodnight,
JMHJ
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Nearing the End
Well I talked to my doctor in the Gettysburg cancer center today and things have looked better at other times. It seems that the radiation isn't much of an option anymore and the only thing he can hope to do is try to get a little more time and control the pain. My numbers are back over 1200 and growing quickly. So Lord's will. The best thing about believing in the providence of an almighty God is that no matter what we conjure up, He will make sure we end up with what's best for us. For now,
JMHJ
JMHJ
Saturday, November 1, 2008
On to Radiation
Trying to get caught up, last Tuesday I went to see another radiation specialist on getting rid of the tumors on my liver. It appears that I have quite a few lesions on the left plus the right side of my liver. So they sent me to a new doctor specializing in the liver, apparently their not to worried about the tumors in my chest or the abdomen.
Their solution that they came up with so far is, they cut a small incision in my artery in the groin area, slide a tube up the vein, and distribute these little glass balls to the area of each one of these lesions. Now the purpose of these balls is two-fold. One they go into the veins of the liver until they get lodged in the capillaries and cut off the blood supply to each lesion. The second use is that they are covered in radiation which of course kills the tumors, or that's the theory anyway.
Now their thinking is that the tumor in the lung no problem, the tumor in the abdomen 50/50, but the liver, even after that procedure their will be more trouble on it's way. And I have no idea as of yet what would be next. Once again, I have to tell you, I'm voting for the vitamin c.
My Oncologist has talked to the top doctor on this type of cancer, and he said their is no more chemo, I've had every drug they have and nothing worked. He also talked to the top doctors at Sloan Kettering to no avail. Their are some other thing that they are looking into, but nothing real decisive yet.
The reason that it took so long to get a post out is that the next day I went into the hospital due to pain and was not released until Friday at 2:00. Then of course we had to get ready for the sabbath which ended around 6:00 tonight. So I give all praise and glory to the Lord for another sabbath with my wife. Which we achieved some great study in Job and Luke.
Lord willing I should post soon,
JMHJ
Their solution that they came up with so far is, they cut a small incision in my artery in the groin area, slide a tube up the vein, and distribute these little glass balls to the area of each one of these lesions. Now the purpose of these balls is two-fold. One they go into the veins of the liver until they get lodged in the capillaries and cut off the blood supply to each lesion. The second use is that they are covered in radiation which of course kills the tumors, or that's the theory anyway.
Now their thinking is that the tumor in the lung no problem, the tumor in the abdomen 50/50, but the liver, even after that procedure their will be more trouble on it's way. And I have no idea as of yet what would be next. Once again, I have to tell you, I'm voting for the vitamin c.
My Oncologist has talked to the top doctor on this type of cancer, and he said their is no more chemo, I've had every drug they have and nothing worked. He also talked to the top doctors at Sloan Kettering to no avail. Their are some other thing that they are looking into, but nothing real decisive yet.
The reason that it took so long to get a post out is that the next day I went into the hospital due to pain and was not released until Friday at 2:00. Then of course we had to get ready for the sabbath which ended around 6:00 tonight. So I give all praise and glory to the Lord for another sabbath with my wife. Which we achieved some great study in Job and Luke.
Lord willing I should post soon,
JMHJ
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