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