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.