The Ongoing Cancer Thread
For those of you who are unaware, I recently lost my wife to an ongoing battle with Metastatic Melanoma with an unknown primary, she was 33.
I wanted to start a thread where people could get things off their chest by sharing stories, or maybe share what we've learned from our experiences to help others. If anything that's posted even helps out 1 person, I feel it's worth it.
Understandably, I did my fair share of reading the last couple years and feel that I should pass on the limited knowledge I have, because what's the point of reading/learning if we don't share.
- one of the first things I read, was that how good something as simple as peppermint is for working on the nausea associated with chemo. Anything peppermint worked great for my wife. Peppermint tea, gum (pur gum) and peppermint lifesavers she found the best.
- I also read a lot about acidic levels in your body and that, supposedly, leads to the disease. I found the book "alkalize or die" to be very insightful. A lot of good ideas in the book with recipes with low acidic levels. Secondly, "Cerra water", like a Brita filter is reccomended as a good source of antioxidant, also high in alkaline. You can also buy PH level strips to test the acid in your body to see if you are at risk, again the book "alkaline or die" teaches you a lot about how important it is to raise the alkaline level in your body.
- a lot of people swear by medicinal methods. Cannabis oil has been linked to being very successful in beating the disease. Calgary is very fortunate in that there is a doctor that you can see to get approved fairly quickly. Of course there is a fee associated with it. If anyone wants the name of the doctor, again feel free to PM me and I can give you the number and cost associated with it.
- supposedly if you are diagnosed with the disease, you should immediately cut as much protein out of your food intake as possible. If you have the disease in your body, "bad" protein from food helps the disease to grow (multiplying cells). I was told that all protein should be taken in powder and that "Nature Pro" was one of the best.
- if there is something that is available to the US and not yet available in Canada, Great Falls, Montana has a very nice facility (even put us up for a couple nights). I have a number if someone would happen to need it.
- more directed for Melanoma patients (and they couldn't help us) but "Save your Skin" foundation out of BC were very insightful into giving us direction and trying to help out as best as they could. They have a fb page with updates on medication and again I have phone numbers if anyone should happen to want them.
I have been contemplating whether or not to start this thread for a while, hopefully it helps some people out as more and more lives unfortunately become affected by the disease.
Everything I posted is ideas from books, doctors, nutritionists and health stores that I visited over the last couple years. Not saying that any one of them is some miracle cure, but I think there is merit to everything i posted. What my wife had was incurable, so just because it didn't work for us, doesn't mean it won't work for you. I have read a lot more, but most other stuff is more specified to what my wife had and not as general as what I listed above.
Thanks
CF
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