Bladder Cancer

Angela, this is great news.

And if you are happy with both the diet and EE, just wait. They are both accumulative. The more you do, the better you will feel.

Good luck. :flowers:
 
Thanks for the update, Angela. Keep up with your diet and EE and you'll be on the right track.

Wishing you the best with your adventures and lessons.
 
A healthy and productive healing process for you Angela.

Your situation has gotten me thinking on the sacred cows of western medicine. Yours and a person that I know here at home. It is so wonderful to hear that you are taking the approach that you are. The person I know here is not and has suffered greatly at the hands of her doctors. She will not change anything about herself mentally, physically or emotionally. As a matter of fact she has gone further into depression and "poor meing" and has become a burden for her immediate family.

You are an inspiration and maybe when this has passed, will be able to help others that have similar situations.

Many Blessings to you.
 
It is really nice to wake up and find all the kind words here. Thank you all it means alot to me.

I must say Bluestar when I first found this out I was really a mess. I didn't know what I was going to do. I was very lucky to have been reading this website for the past 7 years so I had lots of information floating around in my head I just wasn't putting it to good use. ;) There was a part of me that panicked and thought that I should go the western medicine route because who am I to buck the system? But deep down I know that this is the path I need to take. I watched my father and my grandmother die because of chemotherapy and radiation and I just don't want to go that way.

I am much calmer now. Since I have started the elimination diet and the EE I feel better than I have in a long time. There is just one thing that bothers me. All but 3 people in my family will want me to go the standard route with whatever the doctor wants to throw at me. They just will not understand my decision. I haven't even told them yet, just told them I will know something when I go back on the 19th. I have considered telling them that all is well and it was just benign and nothing more to worry about just so I can focus on my healing without all the flack they are going to give me. I don't really want to lie to them so that is what I have been thinking about lately.


Best Wishes

Angela
 
Angela said:
I am much calmer now. Since I have started the elimination diet and the EE I feel better than I have in a long time. There is just one thing that bothers me. All but 3 people in my family will want me to go the standard route with whatever the doctor wants to throw at me. They just will not understand my decision. I haven't even told them yet, just told them I will know something when I go back on the 19th. I have considered telling them that all is well and it was just benign and nothing more to worry about just so I can focus on my healing without all the flack they are going to give me. I don't really want to lie to them so that is what I have been thinking about lately.
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Since you have been reading the Cass websites for the last 7 years, you must know Gurdjieff's thoughts on sincerity. To be sincere with everyone is a weakness.

In Search of the Miraculous said:
"This fear of losing sincerity is of course self-deception, one of those formulas of lying upon which human weaknesses are based. Man cannot help identifying and considering inwardly and he cannot help expressing his unpleasant emotions, simply because he is weak. Identifying, consid-ering, the expressing of unpleasant emotions, are manifestations of his weakness, his impotence, his inability to control himself. But not wishing to acknowledge this weakness to himself, he calls it 'sincerity' or 'honesty' and he tells himself that he does not want to struggle against sincerity, whereas in fact he is unable to struggle against his weaknesses.

"Sincerity and honesty are in reality something quite different. What a man calls 'sincerity' in this case is in reality simply being unwilling to restrain himself. And deep down inside him a man is aware of this. But he lies to himself when he says that he does not want to lose sincerity.
"So far I have spoken of internal considering. It would be possible to bring forward many more examples. But you must do this yourselves, that is, you must seek these examples in your observations of yourselves and of others.
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It also branches into external consideration. Where you do what is easiest for others and yourself. I often don't tell my mother the various health things going on with me because it would be nothing but worries for her. So why get her worried and depressed and put up with all of her worries and advice, or any arguments that may ensue by telling her the truth? It is a burden for her and myself.

I think that you should say whatever will keep your family unworried and unconcerned with your continuing health. This is just my take on it though. The choice is always yours.
 
Nienna Eluch thank you so much for posting the quote of Gurdjieff's. Its been awhile since I have read In search of the miraculous and I am going to pick it up again and read it. I am reading alot of things over again now because for awhile I drifted away from working on myself and ran and hid from the world.

I think the best thing to do is to just tell them what I think will ease their minds. Because if they know what is really going on, I think it will be worse for them. I am really at peace and calm now over the whole situation, and I don't need a bunch of people freaking out about this. So thank you for the food for thought and the quote. I can tell that the family members are already raising their eyebrows a little with my new choice of diet! So I will just leave it at that. I am going to tell them all is going well and we don't need to worry, and that I have decided to change my lifestyle a little and eat better because of it. I think that will be enough for them and we can move on from there.
 
Just thought I would update here, mostly for my own peace of mind because this network really helps. I always feel better once I have shared with you.

Well that last surgery I had was basically to get a biopsy of my tumor. It was positive for cancer, and I wasn't surprised because I was told that cancer cells were present in my urine specimen. Apparently my tumor is very large, over five centimeters, and it is taking up half of my bladder.

Yesterday I went to see a doctor at the University of Washington to go over my options. My bladder must be removed because the cancer had spread into the muscle wall of my bladder. He explained the whole procedure to me and it sounds really scary. Its a 9 hour surgery and he will be removing my bladder, uterus, ovaries, and cutting out a piece of my large intestine to create a new "bladder" for me. I will have to stay in the hospital for at least a week, and recovery is around six weeks if all goes well.

He is fairly confident that the cancer hasn't spread outside of my bladder to any other part of my body so that is good. I am actually quite scared of the whole idea. But I don't know of any other way. I have been following the elimination diet and doing EE regularly and I am feeling really good. But I wonder if I am doing the right thing. The doctor mentioned something about doing chemo before the surgery to shrink the tumor, but I let him know that chemo wasn't something that I wanted and he seemed to accept that.

I am in alot of pain all the time. They have me on some painkillers that help keep it bearable. I am really positive most of the time, but once in awhile I wonder if I am doing enough.
 
Wow, Angela, what an experience to have to go through. Obviously I can't give you medical advice, but from reading your description of the doctor who advised chemo's reaction, I think that if he really thought it would make a critical difference he would not have accepted your decision so quickly. It sounds to me like you are doing a good job handling things and making good decisions.

When are you having the operation?

Angela said:
Just thought I would update here, mostly for my own peace of mind because this network really helps. I always feel better once I have shared with you.

Well that last surgery I had was basically to get a biopsy of my tumor. It was positive for cancer, and I wasn't surprised because I was told that cancer cells were present in my urine specimen. Apparently my tumor is very large, over five centimeters, and it is taking up half of my bladder.

Yesterday I went to see a doctor at the University of Washington to go over my options. My bladder must be removed because the cancer had spread into the muscle wall of my bladder. He explained the whole procedure to me and it sounds really scary. Its a 9 hour surgery and he will be removing my bladder, uterus, ovaries, and cutting out a piece of my large intestine to create a new "bladder" for me. I will have to stay in the hospital for at least a week, and recovery is around six weeks if all goes well.

He is fairly confident that the cancer hasn't spread outside of my bladder to any other part of my body so that is good. I am actually quite scared of the whole idea. But I don't know of any other way. I have been following the elimination diet and doing EE regularly and I am feeling really good. But I wonder if I am doing the right thing. The doctor mentioned something about doing chemo before the surgery to shrink the tumor, but I let him know that chemo wasn't something that I wanted and he seemed to accept that.

I am in alot of pain all the time. They have me on some painkillers that help keep it bearable. I am really positive most of the time, but once in awhile I wonder if I am doing enough.
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Sorry to hear this Angela. Have you considered getting a second opinion or seeking out a holistic practitioner to assist in this? Besides doing the EE and diet, have you implemented any ideas from Cancer is a fungus?
 
my surgery is Sept 30th. I haven't implemented anything from cancer is a fungus, but I have been eating the apricot seed kernels daily. The holistic doctor is a good idea and I thought that I would try that also. It has just been such a whirlwind of stuff going on..running from one doctors appointment to the next, picking up prescriptions, and trying to work on top of that gets a little overwhelming. I often forget to try other things, like the baking soda protocol. I think that I will do that now from here on out until I go back to the doctor on the 20th and see how that works for me.

My diet is pretty simple. I have been having the ultra shake in the morning along with my supplements. For lunch I have a lean meat like chicken or salmon with some veggies...kinda the same for dinner. I also have a peach usually for a snack and cucumbers celery and carrots. I also drink a cup or two of green tea a day.

Thank you for your responses it has given me something to think about that I had forgotten. :)

Angela
 
Hi Angela,

Are you taking other supplements other than the the apricot seed kernels? For instance, alpha lipoic acid, selenium, vitamin C, etc. I think that having the support of an integrative doctor will be the way to go. This are tough times and you should have all the support you can get. Bladder cancer is linked with environmental toxicity as well, so continuing to detoxify and strengthening your body with good nutrition and supplementation is very important.

I'm sending you courage and support :flowers:

{{{Hugs}}}
 
Hi Psyche,

I am currently taking alpha lipoic acid, a B complex with folic acid, a multivitamin/multimineral one a day with probiotics, spirulina,pomegranate extract, and a triple magnesium complex which has magnesium oxide, magnesium citrate, and magnesium aspartate.

Do you think that these are enough? I have been looking into a naturopath, and I agree that seeing one along with my regular doctor could be of some benefit.

Thanks for the courage and support!

Best wishes,

Angela :)
 
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