Happy New Year from Tijuana

   Mike and I flew down to San Diego as planned, and just as planned met Seth, who had driven down from Los Angeles to spend New Year's Day with us.  We arrived at noon, and went directly to our motel, so I could lie down for awhile.  Then we went for a lunch foray to a good Thai restaurant, came back for more Carol's rest time, then went to dinner at Souplantation and had great make-your-own salads.  Then back to the motel for more Carol's rest and to be lasered.  Watched a movie. I had no energy.

   Saturday morning we repacked our things and took the motel shuttle across the border to the William Hitt Center.  They gave me an Ozone treatment (take 1/2 cup of my blood, add Ozone, then give it back to me), then 1/2 hour of waiting for the ozone to circulate, then an IV drip of vitamin C.   We waited around to talk with Dr. Humiston, talked about their treatments, did a bit of muscle testing on supplements (I only need one of the many supplements that I brought with me), and left with 3 new supplements and a candida diet.  Well, a modified candida diet that seems to allow pasta and flour tortillas. hmmmmm.

    We had called for a shuttle, and Hector appeared with his taxi to ferry us around.  First we stopped at the bank for some pesos, then to a taco stand for lunch (2:30 pm), then to Sadie's Bed and Breakfast.

   Sadie's is beautiful.  There is a fountain area outside behind the dining room.  Our room has a jacuzzi bath tup and a nice shower head.  We have wireless internet service. 

   For $15 more per night per person, they will serve dinner.  We had an exquisite cream of vegetable soup, followed by a salad, and then a steak, brown rice, and asparagus with slivered almonds.  Delicious!

   Dear ones, I'll keep you informed.  I don't know whether I am crashing out of energy or having a nice energy period.  We'll see as it unfolds.  

   Mike leaves very early Monday morning, to go back to work.  We have a free day tomorrow.  Sadie's doesn't serve dinner on Sunday, but they said that there is a really good Japanese restaurant nearby.  So we will plan to go there.

   Happy New Year to you, and our wishes for a very healthy one as well!

   Love,

      Carol

Decision is made... Tijuana on Jan 1st

  My last post was about the pressure - oh, the pressure.

   A compromise has been reached.  I will fly down to San Diego on New Years Day, meet Seth to celebrate the day, then start William Hitt's clinic in Tijuana on January 2nd.  I will continue there through January 6th, and then head to a San Diego airport hotel for an early start on my planned trip to Florida to play with my cousins and brother and aunt.  I return  to California on Jan 15th for a fast 2 days, then fly back to San Diego to resume treatment on January 18th.

   I'll be staying at Sadie's Bed and Breakfast in Tijuana, which looks like it is pretty and has a swimming pool.  Seth will think about joining me for the first week if he can and if he needs the healing.

   So the healing journey continues. 

   I felt really good today, so of course I wore myself out.  And now at 7 pm I feel exhausted.  Tomorrow is Christmas Eve at George's family, and then Friday the family will be at our house.  My kitchen is looking great, and everything but the doors are in place.  We're starting to drop things into drawers and get more organized,  but we have so much Stuff!  Wow!  We are kitchen Stuff collectors!!

   Have a wonderful Holiday, and a very healthy and happy New Year!

   Love,

     Carol

The pressure is on

Dear Friends and Family,

   Had my very first ever transfusion on Monday, December 21st.  I "pinked up" right away, and today I have much more stamina.  I should have done this a week ago, when it was first offered!

   As my strength has been improving,  I'm being more attentive to the doing the things that support my healing.  I am pretty faithful about the 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening on the Q1000 laser, and have not missed my Essiac tea.  I'm up to 15 drops, 3 times a day of the liquid Zeolite, I'm taking amino acids and extra l'arginine, proteolytic enzymes, and all my vitamins.  My green drink is including chlorophyll, colloidal minerals, and spirulina.  We're juicing the carrots and having that regularly.  Also young coconuts, which are so refreshing.

   Although Bill Henderson's book "CancerFree" says that the CA125 marker will go up with cancer die-off, as well as with cancer increase,  that does not seem to be good enough for my boys, Seth and Mike.  I am getting a lot of pressure to take additional action, especially to go to the William Hitt center in Tijuana or the Burzynski clinic in Houston.  I am not happy with the Burzynski clinic, so it is the William Hitt center for me.  The question is timing.

   My preference is to enjoy the holidays,  go on our planned trip to Florida to see my cousins and brother and aunt, and then to return, and leave on the 18th or 19th of January to begin the William Hitt treatment.

   Seth is pushing for immediate action.  From looking at the calendar,  this means flying down this Saturday or Sunday to San Diego, starting William Hitt on Monday, Dec. 28th, having 7 days of treatment before returning to Oakland on January 6th, so I can join George and fly to Florida as planned on January 7th.

  I say that I am feeling good.  Seth says that the blood tests and the CA125 marker are not good.  Who knows - my next entry may be from Tijuana and I may miss the rest of the holidays...

   

  Love to you all,

     Carol

New Gadget, New Drops, same old bloodtest results

   It's been awhile since I've updated this blog.  Sorry...

   December 3rd was not a good day for me.  I got dehydrated, and then I lay down in an awkward position, and the total process put me in pain for the whole night and the next day.  So on December 4th, in pain, I headed up to Fair Oaks to see Dr. Lubecki.  He looked at me and insisted that I buy this fancy hand held laser device, the Q1000 laser, and it's attachment, the Q0800 enhancer.  And that I use it for an hour each morning and an hour each night, running it all over my naked body.

   The first few times I tried using it, it was a major effort.  I had to rest between levels (7 levels), then resume.  It was awkward to do my own back.  But a funny thing happened.  I woke up on Monday and realized I was feeling better.  On Tuesday I was definitely feeling better, so I exhausted myself and was a lump by afternoon.  But each day the process was easier, and it became really easy when I learned how to ask for help and Mike or Tanya or George did my back.

   I was so excited that I took another blood test, hoping that my tumor marker CA125 had gone down.  Unfortunately the marker was up, and so was my platelet count, while my hematocrit and red blood cell levels were down further.  Not good.

   Then a package arrived with liquid Zeolite, another magic potion.  I started taking it at 5 drops a time, and that night sweated profussly. So I went up to 8 drops, 3 times a day.  Sweating at night was really good, and no other negative symptoms.  Liquid Zeolite has a number of testimonials where it eliminated cancer, and that, as you know, is part of my goal toward feeling great and being very healthy!

   Took another blood test.  My numbers got worse! (well, it was only a week later).  The doctor said that I need a blood transfusion, so I am on schedule to get on next Monday, Dec 21.

   Then Seth and I went to Houston, Texas, for a  conference with Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski.  Dr. Burzynski is famous for his theories that cancer is based on gene manipulation, and that he can manipulate the DNA with his drugs that have been approved by the FDA.  He is in clinical trials for brain tumors, and everything else he does as an expensive, pay as you go, private patient clinic.  I was afraid that Seth would make me stay, but Seth said that he hadn't meant to have me scared of that.  So it took most of the day on Wednesday to get to Houston, and then our appointment was at 10 am, and lasted most of the day until we had to cut it short to get to the airport.  I ate some of the worst food that I can remember while I was in Houston.  I have a lot to learn about ordering in restaurants.

   We went thru the consultation, and agreed to do the blood work to see what my DNA is saying.  Believe it or not, the doctor from the clinic looked at the first blood test and left a message for me that my blood levels were even worse than the Monday blood test, and that I should get the blood transfusion as soon as possible!

   Home.  What a wonderful place to be!  Here I am, so happy to be here, sun is shining, life is good.  I don't know what to do about my sticky blood - one doctor in Suzanne Sumers' book says that this is common in all cancer patients and that gingko, garlic, enzymes, and nattokinase will help it get unsticky.  So I've ordered all of this, and it should arrive today.  Dr. Brezynski's office says to not take B12 or folic acid, as cancer cells feed off of those, and to increase the amino acids, especially arginine, so I'll make a trip to the health food store today.
   I'll keep you informed as we go.  I'm hoping the liquid zeolite and the laser are reversing the cancer, but since I've been using the laser for only 2 weeks and the zeolite for less than 1 week, it will take longer to find out the results.  By the way, Dr. Lubecki is getting lots of good press from Bill Henderson's newsletter, and is getting cancer patients from accross the US coming to his little office in Fair Oaks.
   Love,   Carol

Evaluating my progress

Dear Family and Friends,

   I am a bit embarrassed to say that there are many things that the clinic in Mexico suggested that I have not been doing.  For example, 2 coffee enemas a week, fresh carrot juice and fresh vegetable juice each day, and 30 minutes in the sunshine.  These are easy to do, and I have no good excuse for not doing them.

   Now the results of my blood test have come in, and my tumor marker score is up to 184, from 125.

   So I am getting more religion.  I'm hunting around for a provider of IV Vitamin C locally.  Several are around, but they want $150 each session to $225 each session (wow!).  Kaiser has assured me that they do not provide IV Vitamin C.  I've switched breakfast from egg on sprouted bread toast to smoothie with spirolina.  And I had a coffee enema yesterday. And started Essiac tea. And am drinking fresh coconut juice each day.

   At the insistence of Mike and Seth, I have a meeting with the Burzynski Clinic in Houston set for mid December.  Seth will go with me.  Dr. Burzynski uses "antineoplastons" and has several clinical trials going.  If they have something to offer me, then I will sign up.  I also have the forms for Gabriel Cousen's center in Arizona, but his next cancer retreat is in February.

   It's open enrollment time for us seniors on medicare, so I'm switching us from Kaiser, which does all the lab tests and ct scans for free but not much else unless you are doing chemo or radiation, to another plan, which may cover some of these costs that will be coming up

   I'm very grateful for all the help I had at Thanksgiving and after Thanksgiving.  Being less then fully healthy is teaching me how to receive help and support.  It's an important lesson.  But I still want to be in excellent health.  Your prayers and good wishes are gratefully accepted.

   I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I will keep you posted on my progress.

   With love,

      Carol

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Loss of an old friend

Dear Family and Friends,

I'm continuing along on my healing journey,

But it is time to say good-bye to Ira Coltan, my friend and ex-husband and father of my wonderful children.
Ira was in great pain during his hospital stay, so we are happy that he is now free from the pain.

Ira was a lifelong smoker, and was able to smoke until he entered the hospital.  No one knew that he had extensive cancer throughout his body, and that the tumors in his brain were hemoraging.

We'll alway remember Ira for his unconditional love, his generosity, and his laughter.  He always enjoyed the home-cooked meals that Tanya or I would make.  Although his passion was bridge, he could occassionally be talked into a game of chess, and be amazed that Tanya or George could beat him at a game that he used to excel at.

We will miss him.  And we wish him well on this next journey.

Here's a photo of him taken at Tanya and Mike's wedding in Mendocino a few years ago.

We lay his body to rest on Tuesday, November 24th, His body will be on a knoll in the sunshine.  It's a place that Mike and Tanya have walked to before with the dog.  I'm sure they'll be visiting it to say hello every now and then.

Love to you all,

Carol

Labor of Love

Well, I was a bit optimistic about the kitchen.  George says that by Thanksgiving it should be done.  The granite is down, the appliances all work, and he has made great progress on building the drawers.  Here are some photos: 

It is great to be home!  I arrived late Friday night, to find that Mike and Tanya and Seth had already been hard at cleaning the house, especially the bedroom and my office.  They returned on Saturday to empty out the office and office closet, clean the bones, and then coax me into letting go of some of my acquisitions.  Man, I certainly hold on to "things".  The family was gentle on me and my peculiarities,  and the results are spectacular.  The office is friendly, usable, and set up for my needs.  And as if that weren't enough,  Tanya raced out to make dinner for us: homemade soup and delicious salad!  Couldn't have been better!

I'm still coughing a bit, but that is to be expected.

And I am so grateful for the labor of Love that my family has done.  Thank you!