Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Searching...

   We are currently reading Donald R. Yance's book, Herbal Medicine, Healing, and Cancer; A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment and there are many live testimonies that point out that herbs, vitamins, and other micro-nutrients, proper diet and other health-enhancing modalities can be used with conventional therapies in the healing process. We are moving toward this two-fold approach. Here is an excerpt from Yance's book that summarizes some of his thoughts that seem to make a lot of sense to us.


" I am frequently asked what really heals cancer. Frankly, I don't know whether it is the herbs, the nutritional supplements, changes in diet or lifestyle, changes in mind and spirit, or even some conventional protocols. Perhaps it's a combination of all these things. I do know, however, that just as each herb is a complex entity, so too is each individual. Thus, healing with herbs brings us into a realm where physical explanations are not always as clear and scientific as we would like. This synergy that takes place between the body's own innate tendency to heal and the herbs that aid in that process is, in some ways, a mystery even though the healing itself is indisputably real." -Donald R. Yance


Miriam Butterman sent us this article...Has anyone heard about this? Or know of anybody who has gone through this treatment.
-Ani 

Vivir16 Jun 2009 - 10:54 pm

El elíxir para el cáncer

Por: Mariana Suárez Rueda
El jueves se presenta en Bogotá un documental sobre este tratamiento.
Alan Furmanski
Foto: Juan Camilo Giraldo
Alan Furmanski fue diagnosticado con cáncer cuando tenía apenas 27 años. Empeñado en ganarle la batalla a la muerte puso todas sus fuerzas en un tratamiento tradicional, pero no dio resultado. Desesperado empezó a investigar sobre otras alternativas para combatir la enfermedad y encontró que en Estados Unidos y México se había vuelto popular un novedoso procedimiento que en dos años promete curar el cáncer sin métodos invasivos ni perjudiciales para el organismo, simplemente tomando jugos de frutas y de verduras.
Sin dudarlo dos veces viajó a uno de estos centros médicos para aprender cómo preparar estas bebidas y comprobar que se trataba de un tratamiento serio. Allí se enteró de que entre los años 30 y 50 el médico alemán Max Gerson había descubierto los beneficios de la comida vegetariana y no procesada para curar ciertas enfermedades como la tuberculosis. Durante varios meses aprendió a mezclar lechugas, zanahorias, escarolas, acelgas, berros, repollos y manzanas, entre otros ingredientes, en una máquina especial en la que se baten sin perder ninguna de sus propiedades.
Todos los días, por dos años, tuvo que tomarse 12 vasos de estos jugos, realizarse varias veces al día un enema de café y sacar de su dieta la carne, las grasas, el alcohol y la comida chatarra para que el tratamiento diera resultado. “Se necesita mucha disciplina, hay que ser muy estricto”, cuenta Alan. “A veces tu familia te dice que no exageres, que por un día no pasa nada. Pero no es así”, recuerda.
Después de 24 meses el cáncer abandonó su organismo. Fue un milagro, dijeron algunos. Sin embargo, este joven bogotano estaba convencido del poder curativo de estos jugos y decidió dedicarse a ayudar a quienes quisieran realizar este tratamiento en Colombia. Además de suministrarles las frutas y las verduras con las que deben preparar las bebidas, Alan se ha convertido en un testimonio de su eficacia, en un símbolo para no perder la esperanza.
Al igual que le sucedió a Alan, se han registrado varios casos de pacientes en diferentes países del mundo que logran curarse con estos jugos. Aunque el tratamiento es cuestionado por los médicos tradicionales, quienes defienden la necesidad de utilizar la quimioterapia o la radioterapia para combatir el cáncer, cada vez es mayor el número de personas que se anima a probarlo.
Este jueves a las 10 de la mañana en los cines del centro comercial Andino, en Bogotá, se proyectará un documental de 92 minutos sobre el tratamiento y las clínicas en donde se practica. En la cinta se hace una fuerte crítica a la industria farmacéutica y se habla del cáncer, especialmente de cómo puede prevenirse si las personas adquieren hábitos de vida saludables. Alan confía en que esta película pueda dar respuestas a quienes sufren la enfermedad o se convierta en una esperanza para los pacientes que quieren a toda costa recuperar su salud.

Kelly in Wonderland

“The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things; of shoes -and strings- and sealing wax- of cabbages and kings- and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."  "But wait a bit," the oysters said, "before we have our chat, for some of us are out of breath and all of us are fat."... (poem from Alice in Wonderland)
Dear All,
If you believe in magic, then you’d know that one should never have the staples removed from their scalp while on an empty stomach and certainly not without celebrating the event with a tea party!   So, at 10:30 am yesterday, the Dillon family made a very special stop at Alice’s Tea Cup to munch on pumpkin scones, drink aromatic teas and enjoy the enchanting ambiance from Alice in Wonderland!  Once done and with our bellies full and tongues still wagging, we sauntered happily over to the hospital to get Kelly “unzipped“  (for the long row of staples looked just like a zipper across her head).
We entered the doctor’s office en masse to witness the event (even Rabbi Goldwasser squeezed into the room).   Nurse Amanda used this neat little tool that looks like a scissors but it has 3 fingers and acts like a staple remover.  It bends the center of the staple at the same time that it pulls the staple out of the skin.  Kelly just sat on the examination table, bent her head over and… clip, clip, clip…out they came, all 43 of them.  It took all of 10 minutes (Ani filmed it).  Kelly assured us (as we all looked on and grimaced in anguish) that she didn’t feel anything other than a little pinch…..until the doctor got to the last three staples...the one's in front of her ear.  Ouch, those three little buggers hurt (the face being a more tender area than the scalp)!  EVERYONE checked out the wound and "ooohed" and "aaahed" at how beautifully it had healed:
“Let me see!” says Mama Bear.
“Move over!” says Papa Bear.
“Hey, I can’t see…Get out of the way, I’m filming!” says Little Sister Bear.
“It’s amazing! Thank the Lord!” says the Rabbi.
“Did it hurt?” says Hector.
“Not really, only here.” says Kelly Bear as she pointed to her ear.
“Back away everyone, let me finish!” says Nurse Amanda.
“Keep the staples! “ excitedly piped up Little Sister Bear, “I want them!”
“OH, DISGUSTING!” groaned Mama Bear! 
“Go for it, Baby Bear! Make us something beautiful!”  smiled Papa Bear.
“Here they are!" laughed Nurse Amanda.  “I put them in a test tube, just for you, Little Sister Bear.”
Then Nurse Amanda asked Kelly Bear, “Do you have any questions to ask me before you leave?”
“Yes, as a matter of fact, I have several.” replied Kelly Bear as she pulled her list out of her cuadernito (notebook):    
#1.  Can I have a massage….my neck has been killing me?
#2.  Can I wax my eyebrows….I’ve got a forest growing?
#3.  Can I use my new Easy Tone Reeboks?
And the list went on...
Nurse Amanda, took a deep breath and signed, “Yes, live your normal life and do the things that make you happy, Kelly Bear!  And, by the way, your question about waxing the eyebrows, is a first, I never heard that one before!”
And so the staples are now gone, and Kelly Bear won’t have to worry ever again about them freezing and popping out in the cold, cold NY weather!  (Wonder what interesting art piece Ani will design from them?...)
We are so glad to have the operation behind us.  Alleluyah!  One down, two to go…..
Yesterday, we also went to pathology for the update.  We were informed that the additional pathology studies confirmed that Kelly’s tumor is not an oligodendroglioma (low grade tumor), but rather is a glioneuronal tumor that is equivalent to a high grade astrocytoma (ana plastic astro/ WHO grade III). [WHO= World Health Organization]  Astro cells have tentacles that travel and this type of tumor can return.  It will have to be treated with radiation and chemo therapies, so treatment will probably begin after Thanksgiving.
Our task now is to find the best place for Kelly to receive the treatment; a place that specializes in her type of tumor.  It may be here in NY or it may be elsewhere.  Since tumors respond to different kinds of treatment, and hospitals are known to specialize in certain types of tumors, we have to find the right place for Kelly.   Friday, November 19, we have a meeting scheduled with Dr. Jerome Posner, chief of neuro-oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (across the street from NY-Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill-Cornell .)  We await Dr. Posner’s recommendation to know how to proceed.
Mark and Hector head home to Panama today.  They will return next week to be here for Dr. Posner’s meeting on Friday.  In the meantime, Kelly is to lead a normal life while her wound continues to mend.  We will remain in Mountainville.  Kelly will start learning how to use the new school administration program called Admin Plus, Ani will begin work on our school yearbook, and I will be working on school business.  We have much to keep us busy.  And between it all, we are planning a bang-up Thanksgiving with family and friends from around the globe.
Now that things will calm down a bit and we’ll be home more, Ani will be able to post some of the many great photos the girls and Hector have taken.  Please keep us posted about the life in your worlds.  We miss Panama terribly and think about everyone all the time.  Your messages help keep us going (hits to Kelly’s blog now number above 12,419!).  And don’t forget, please continue with your prayers.  We want nothing less than a miracle, and lots of PMA will get us there!  We believe and feel that in our heart.
Big hug and kiss,
Mama Bear