Chemicals in the Environment-Releive Your Toxic Exposure

I am trying to catch up after a week of recovery and cleaning my office. I see more and more young people coming down with cancer. I have not touched much on my own specific form of cancer, as I wanted to include all cancer patients, and not just Multiple Myeloma.
Multiple Myeloma used to be very rare but now we see more and more of it popping up. I truly believe the reason for this is "chemical attack" On a posting on Cancer Compass one sufferer just found out where she used to live was a toxic wasteland as far as the water was concerned.
Read about it here. She was pregnant and drinking this water they now have deemed very toxic.
Camp LeJeune in California was known to have contaminated water and people are coming down with cancer.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/military-admits-water-contamination-camp-lejeune-1980s/story?id=10152347&page=2
Every day we are subject to more and more chemicals and if there is big money involved it is just dismissed as a "conspiracy".
I try to lighten the load by not drinking sodas, although I see Coke (tm) has gone back to using sugar instead of other harmful substances,(in my opinion) in their regular sodas. Nothing wrong with a bit of sugar but all this other artificial stuff is making us toxic.
I wash my clothes in non toxic detergent. I use Amway but Shaklee, Oxy Plus, Malacca etc all have non perfumed washing powders. I use a natural underarm deodorant no perfume, I use Essential oils for perfume. They are natural and healing. I am sure many of you have the awful headaches, nausea etc these things bring on. It is the chemicals they use to perfume or whiten.
Have a shower or bath in natural soap. There are many who use perfumes to cover the lack of cleanliness. I use natural shampoo's and conditioner. Every bit adds a load to the immune system and liver. The poor liver cannot detox it fast enough. Educate yourself don't leave it to others. My cleaning products are all natural and my house is very clean. I add 2 drops of Young Living Lemon oil in the water to wash the floor. Smells wonderful and clean.
Look around your home and get rid of the unnecessary chemicals. I have a lovely lady who helps me clean. She has been having toxic migraines, and I am sure it is the exposure to the chemicals in her job. She is now using essential oils and other natural products to help her allay those headaches. Another friend has a job as a janitor and is in pre kidney failure. We detoxed his liver and added essential oil and he is no longer up for dialysis. He also now wears gloves more.
One can occasionally indulge in some "forbidden" food, but the word is occasionally. Like everything looking out for the small things prevents bigger things from happening. Have a great weekend!!

Natural Essential Oils for Healing and Serentiy

I have had great success with essential oils. Not only do they smell exotic they do wonders for your mental and physical health. These substances have been used in healing, cosmetics, and a sign of wealth over thousands of years.

My website has lots of information on ho to use, which I will add to continually .

www.healingcancernaturally.net

When I had my Sinus tumor in 2009, the pain was like a thousand needles being stuck in your face and jaw. Yes I used the drugs but added Frankincense 2-3 daily over the effected area. It really added to the soothing effect. I blogged about Metanex for nerve damage and add some Frankincense to this it really does make a difference. I still use daily on my face. I had several cranial nerves intertwined in my tumor. I still have residual nerve pain although the tumor is gone. I have not needed any pain meds just rub on the frankincense.

Lavender is wonderful for cancer patients as it helps promote sleep and calmness. Rub on the soles of your feet at bedtime and on your wrists. Peppermint is another wonderful oil to help. I will write about these further. Lemon can be used for cleaning, adding a drop to water before drinking, especially when you come across a heavily chlorinated water. I find in many eating places they serve water, I do not know about you, but the chlorine smell is soooo strong. I add 1-2 drops of lemon oil. It helps the digestion as well.

Heart Healing Post Cancer

In 2004, after heavy radiation to my sternum, to try and stop the disintegration of my spine , I

suffered severe heart interference. My heart rate went up to 200 beats per minute. I had to be hospitalized to get me stable. I was only in 2 days but it took a week to get my heart back into rhythm. I was then on beta blockers for 6 years. My heart problems began to increase so we discussed doing an Ablation. This is a relatively new procedure where they go through the femoral and neck veins, pierce the chamber of your heart, get it to malfunction, and then burn off the offending malfunctioning node. I had this procedure Monday 3/15/2010 and all went exceedingly well. I was home by 7 pm and have had a good week. This allows me to take less medications, up my natural supplements and improve my health.

Vit D, or Cod Liver Oil, CQ10, Magnesium, Ribose. These are all wonderful supplements to help the heart as well as improve the immune system. I am uploading information on essential oils to my website www.healingcancernaturally.net Check it out! Have a great and fun weekend.

Another Healthy Day/Natural Neuropathy Meds

Every Day one survives and is health is a blessing. I go to Cancer Compass and read about the thousands of cancer sufferers and their problems. I was reading about Neuropthay. That is severe nerve pain from the side effects of the chemotherapy. Someone posted this information. Her doctor gave her METANX it is a combination of Vitamin B's. Folic Acid, B6 and B12. These are the vitamins that take care of the nerves. It has been helping many people.
The B Vitamins are known for coating the nerves themselves, thus reducing the pain. No it is not a pain medication per se, but it has a similar effect.

Have a great day!!!

Radiation and Cell phones

Healing the body is important. While we do receive radiation as part of our treatment we do not need a larger dose. I am of the belief that cells phones can cause an increase in radiation. I developed a tumor in 2009, in the sinus area, immediately around the area where I held my cell phone. I am not a big cell phone user but perhaps because I have a weakend immune system (Multiple Myeloma takes out your immune system) then the cell phone could have aggravated the area. Do I have proof, no, just my own suspicions. I did get a new Samsung Cell phone called a Rugby. Why? it emits about 40 % less radiation than most phones. If you get the right person at the phone company will let you know if you have the scale of radiation. Mine falls under the less harmful catagory.The newer 3G networks are supposedly safer. This goes for Blue Tooth devices also. I have an old fashioned cord that I use. The only good thing for texters is they are not exposed so much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34fR4tlr0Lg
Something to think about. Another factor is that having a TV in your bedroom allows to much EMF in your system. Before sleep unplug your electrical devices in the room. You will sleep better.

Curry, Spices and Cancer

Tumeric has been known for thousands of years. In fact spices were traded like money and were as good or better than money.

Essential oils for the mind and body

The mind has power over our bodies. It is easy to give in to negative thoughts. We have many options through meditation and biofeedback to help heal oursleves. Essential oils have been around for thousands of years and used by Royalty in many countries. Today the Queen of England uses natural remedies along with tradtional western medicine. I use Young Living oils that give peace and serenity. Some of the best ones to give calm and healing are Frankincense, Joy, Peace and Calm, Valor,Lavender, purification. I am building a website that has all these oils for sale.
At the moment I have one listed on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230446214121&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123
I use these for my stress level by putting the oils on the soles of my feet. I use the Frankincense on my face and forhead as I had a nasty cancer tumor in that area. Not only does it take the pain away the perfume is so relaxing. The oil Peace and Calming is wonderful to get you to sleep after a stressful day. Sometimes the oils can help reduce the pain not only from cancer but other illnesses.

A Sunny Sunday

A beautiful sunny Sunday. The world marches on. Those who have cancer can rejoice in another day given to them. The sun is shining bees are huming, flowers are in bloom. When I was desperately ill I always said when the daffodils bloom I will be cancer free. It was mostly true. When the daffodils bloomed in the spring my bone marrow was cancer free. It took another year of daffodil therapy to get it out of my spine!!

Vitamin D and Vitamin D3 are vital in the boosting of the immune syste and promoting healing. Recent data has shown the lack of Vit D is more dangerous than High cholesterol.. Daily dose of either these vitamins are all you need to improve your health. You can also choose Cod Liver Oil. Ugh you say! It also comes in capsules. Remember when choosing supplements quality outweighs quantitiy. I personally use Carlson's brand. When I was in Norway they served it at the hotel for Breakfast every day. So I would say the Norweigans know something we don't. The have a great respect for the fact they have less sunlight and as a common practice use prevention rather than cure.

Healing Cancer The Begining

There are so many people coming down with cancer, I am making an effort to help those struggling with their illness, by sharing my experiences, and offereing Natural Healing tips, that worked for me.

I thought an Asteroid would destroy the planet before I came down with cancer. I was wrong. In the late 70's early 80's I was an RN who looked after Cancer Patients and administered Chemotherapy.

Beleive me I have been on both sides of this equation and I thought I knew a lot as a Nurse!! How silly we are, while I was knowledgeable, I was sadly lacking in some areas of really knowing how things worked.

I have an additonal website where I also post and comment: www.healingcancernaturally.net

I also keep in contact with many dear people on Cancer Compass. A wonderful website where the Cancer Patient, The Caregiver, and the Medical Person can post and do wonders for each other. Beleive me the cancer patient today is better versed but still is cowed down by lack of information.

My journey began many years ago; it was just that I was not aware of it. I had suffered immune system problems all my life. My siblings wanted to "do away with me at times," as I was the first to catch all the childhood diseases. I had my share of illness throughout my adult life. Our parents instilled in us a tough attitude about illness, "get over it you can be strong". They were not mean but they taught us to be strong. Our Dad used to say as women you can do anything a man can do. Our parents were definitely before there time in attitudes and practice. They taught us about natural healing and remedies and herbs and not to rely on the doctors alone, in ones hour of need. I was an RN who specialized in many fields but ended my career as an oncology nurse, working with one of the most respected doctors in the gynecological oncology area, in a major California hospital.One thing I suspect is the amount of chemotherapy we gave could have induced the onset of the multiple myeloma which showed up in me in October 2004 . Perhaps we were not careful enough as the chemicals would sometimes spill on us. We did wash it off and I am sure we absorbded some of it. This is just a theory on my part, but it has been documented, that nurses who gave chemo have a higher incidence of cancer.I retired from nursing in the 1980's and helped my husband in the plastic manufacturing business, I am sure my exposure to some of the chemicals in plastics and the colors imbedded, did not help my cause. This was a stressful time for me and in the 90's we sold out and moved to Idaho. What a wonderful change. Cleaner air, country living, growing your own produce and a living a healthier lifestyle. It took a few years for me to recover my health but we really lived a wonderful country lifestyle.It seems difficult to believe, that this healthy change, would not help in preventing any occurence of cancer. I did not eat junk food and thought I ate quite well but there is always room for improvement. We exercised as we had 10 acres of land to care for and we also kept up our love of playing tennis.In 2003 my husband became quite ill and the doctors did not seem to know what was wrong with him . 4 months of sleepless nights, helping him cope with pain, doing most of the chores took a toll. I was not getting much sleep and was constantly working with my husband, with natural things, to releve his pain. Finally a doctor who listened, my husband had a partial colon resection in October of 2003 and began to improve.From then on I began to deteriorate in health. I look back on this and take notice but at the time just brushed it aside. Each month my bone pain grew worse, I had trouble walking and began to hunch over. Did I notice all of this ..No.. I did notice the pain. The doctor kept telling me I just needed some exercise and advil. Hmmm! In may of 2004 I helped with a big conference in Idaho and at the time it exhausted me. When I closed my suitcase my back kind of snapped, and I had the most excruiating pain.(I learned later I had fractured my spine and walked around with this for 6 months. The doctor again told me it was muscle spasms. By July I was in constant pain and revisited the doctor who took blood work and said he could find nothing wrong. Finally in September my blood work came back abnornal but the doctor had no insight. In October I was in the ER for breathing problems and they said well your lungs have something wrong but probably you are over anxious.. I took myself to a wonderful doctor in another state and he took one look at me and nearly fainted. He reviewed by blood tests and found my Hemoglobin was 6. I had lost half my body's blood. He sent me home and we found a hematologist specialist who immediately gave me 2 pints of much needed blood. I was then scheduled for a bone marrow test. This came back a few days later as positive for Multiple Myeloma. what a shock. MM is an incurable cancer with an average life span, post diagnosis of 50-55 months. It is a disease of the white blood cells known as Plasma Cells, Vital for the function of the immune system. These cells are produced in the bone marrow. When this system fails your immune system is wiped out and the red blood cells shut down as well. It is a disease that is very difficult to diagnose. I was given about 5-6 weeks to live and my family told it probably would be sooner. I was in kidney failure, had metatases to other organs and bones,and was in extreme pain. I often say the poor souls who are tortured could not suffer as much pain. I had a wonderful doctor who gave me lots of pain meds, (which hardly touched the pain) and started me on Radiation therapy to relieve the pain in the bones(I only could tolerate 10 days of radiation). As I was so far gone, I could barely get across the room with a walker, and had to be showered and dressed by someone else. I made a point of showering each day and dressing in sweats. Up by 11 am unless I had to go to the hospital and in bed by 4 pm. This kept me more motivated. I took Oxycontin 3 times every 24 hours and Diladid every 3 hours. I refused the chemo they offered as I knew it probably would be the end of me. It was a very strong chemo and in my weakend condition would have probably wiped me out. My journey began and my husband who was desperate, found out about a natural supplement, called poly mva. He ordered it and within 3 days and I took it on the way to the hospital. I was hospitalized and the family told I probably would not go home. Not only did I go home in 4 days but my kidney function returned. This magic potion seemed to be working. I added coQ10, Cod liver oil, Turmeric and had a sparse diet. Lived on cream soups and broths and added Tumeric/curry to everything. I suffered the most extreme nausea. I had cleansing enemas, used biofeedback, prayer and meditation. The journey was extremely painful but I kept showing improvement. By April 2005, much to the amazement and shock of my doctors, I showed no cancer in my bone marrow. I still had multiple spinal lesions which were very painful. I made the statement that by spring my cancer would be gone. And so it was from my bone marrow. I never believed I would die but at the same time everything was done to keep me alive naturally. One year later my spine was free of cancer.I was 5'8" in height and I lost my thoracic spine and some lumbar discs, I am now 5'3", am a little bent over but have straightened up remarkably well. I have physio therapy to help with movement. My balance is not quite there. I used a walker full time for 4 years but now can manage short walks with a cane.I still take my poly mva along with my cod liver oil, coQ10, Turmeric, immune system boosters, and essential oils. I had many people praying for me, helping me and giving encouragement. At this time I am MM free. I did have a set back in May of 2009 when a tumor was found in my sinus. It took 8 1/2 dose radiation and 10 tumor specific to remove the tumor but it is now gone. I had my gallbladder out at the same time and I was really badly infected so I can presume my immune system was down due to this. I upped my dose of polymva again and this has kept me going. It was the massive dosing of this supplement that helped me immensely. Do I say not to take Chemotherapy. NO. That was my choice. We are all individuals and do not know the choices we make until we are faced with disaster. I will post ideas and tips and it is up to you wether you are interested in doing this. God bless you all and may you stay well.