Thankful For...

I am thankful for my husband most of all things in this world, but I'm also very thankful for my cancer. 

It sounds crazy to someone who has no idea what it's like being a cancer fighter, but what I know is that I am a changed person thanks to cancer. It was right before Thanksgiving in 2015 that I was diagnosed and at this point I know I'm not the same, but in a very good way. 

Yes, there have been some bad days when I had a mental breakdown or two and just wanted to cry, but I picked myself up and went on stronger than before. 

It's like mentally, I've gone through a tunnel and when I got to other side I finally realized that all the petty things I used to worry about don't really matter. I've thrown myself so far out of my "comfort zone" in many ways during all the cleanses and the experimental protocols while trying to find what worked for me. 

I've stuck 100% to my all-natural plant-based cancer diet and in the last year I have had ZERO sugar. That's right. I am living without chocolate, without bread, without anything sweet. Why? Because, without it I feel amazing. I have lost 55 pounds in the last year and I'm slowly working on toning via Yoga, jumping on my Rebounder, running, jogging, and walking with the dogs.  

I'm thankful for all of mine and my husband's research. I'm also very thankful for my husband's 100% support throughout my cancer fighting journey. 

This change over the last year has really opened my eyes. It's like I can finally see the big, wide world all around me. Rather than let moments go by me, I like to take time out of my day to just be present. I love just being part of the world and taking in the little moments like feeling the sunshine on my skin, smiling just because, laughing like crazy, grabbing more hugs, stealing more kisses, and enjoying more walks with my dogs.  

I have to say that I truly do experience things more deeply than I ever have before. Food tastes better (when I get to enjoy things like fruits and whole veggies), acts of love feel nicer, my Yoga practice is so very blissful (even when challenging), and I just have this glowing inner happiness that I've never felt before.

Knowing that others haven't been so lucky with fighting cancer makes me ever so grateful that what I've been doing has kept me alive. Even if it takes me another year or more to get rid of my cancer spot and scar tissue, I'll never give up, because this life is worth living! 

Miraculous Changes

The last few months have been really defining for me. As much as I wanted to do everything, I had to admit that some things just weren't the right thing for me and other things weren't working at all. In the end, I'm not "Superwoman" either and I know there just isn't enough time for me to do EVERYTHING so I've taken all the regimes I've come across and narrowed my daily activities down to things that I feel have been the most beneficial to my body, made the most difference in killing cancer, and what has helped in healing the tongue after the cancer fell off. 

Here's a glimpse of what a day in the life of me looks like:

-Wake Up, Let Dogs Out,  

-Pack my backpack with about 20 different vitamins, a mixture of sulfur water and Liph water, and some Essiac tea to take to work with me for later.

-Feed Dogs 

-Mix Cottage Cheese & Flaxseed (CCF) (Yes, I realize cheese isn't Vegan. This is the ONLY exception to my diet. Yes, it's for a purpose. The Budwig protocol calls for this and due to the Flaxseed the dairy properties are voided out.)

-Jump on trampoline for 15 Minutes

-Eat CCF

-Blend the grossest green smoothie which will be for dinner (My husband helps with this). The smoothie is nothing but veggies and mostly all leafy greens that no one in their right mind would enjoy drinking. Ever. 

-Go to work - Wait 3 Hrs. and complete routine of drinking Liph and Sulfur Mixture and eating a salad for lunch.
  

-30 Mins. later, take packed liquid Vitamin C, the rest of the pill form vitamins, and drink a Green Tea with the Essiac tea blended in. When possible I follow up with a second, plain 8oz. Green Tea.

-Take a break for 1 hr. Yoga (this happens twice during the week on Tuesday/Thursday)

-Go Home, Jump on trampoline for 20 Minutes

-Care For Dogs

-Force myself to gulp down the grossest smoothie ever for dinner 

-Drink another Sulfur/Liph Water mixture. Wait 30 minutes and take round of vitamins.

-Reward self with another Green Tea with Essiac Tea blended in

-Have a giant avocado for snack and/or 1/4 cup sized portion of Quinoa

-Take 10 more pancreatic enzymes  

-Spend time with husband, relax, enjoy television, computer time, etc. 

-Go to bed 

I left out the mundane things of life such as laundry, dishes, and other chores as they just get worked in whenever there's a slight gap. Thankfully, weekends aren't quite as crazy as I don't have to work, but I still go to Yoga on both Saturday and Sunday for one hour as well as keep up with everything else. 

This is my life right now, but it's all for the better, because I'm getting stronger mentally and physically. Not to mention, as you can see from my progress photos my sore spot has made some major changes in the last few months. It's like something out of a science fiction movie! It's crazy to think that pieces of my tongue literally have fallen off, left a giant hole in my tongue, and cells are regenerating to fill up the gap. The body truly is an amazing thing and can do so much when we simply allow it to do so without the interference of poisons! 

My tongue has improved more than ever before and I'm getting to the point where I think testing to make sure my cancer is gone for good will be happening very soon! Stay tuned for updates! 

Anything And Everything

At this point I've gone through many, MANY steps of the natural cancer fighting process from multiple body cleanses, to changing my diet, to exercising more, and doing various detoxing regimes along the way. 

What I'm learning is that every step brings me just a little closer to total healing, whether that means due to learning what wasn't working or what was/is making my tongue feel better. 

As with any form of natural medicine what one study says is different from what another says. 

With that being said, I've had to test each protocol and simply watch to see what works for me and what only seems to inflame my sore spot. 

  

At the beginning of my cancer fighting journey I vowed to do anything and everything that was all natural in order to fight my cancer. 

Thus, after I saw some results from the diet change and the exercising my body felt more in tune. My husband and I decided it was time to move on to the next phase of trying to either kill off cancer cells or revert the cancer cells back into normal cells. 

That's when we decided to try the coconut oil regime that I posted about a bit ago. I thought about doing it again, but I really wanted to do something stronger, mostly after my husband learned about a few more ways to kill cancer cells. 

My husband came across the most simple protocol ever. In fact, it seemed too good to be true. Yet, since it has been about 9 months since starting this fight, I am getting desperate to get rid of this bump under my tongue! So, I did it. It was 10 days worth of drinking 2 tsp of baking soda with 2 tsp of Blackstrap molasses in about 8 oz of water, 2-3 times a day. The baking soda mixture did seem to do a little something in flattening out my sore spot. 

After that 10 day cycle ended, I opted to do an even stronger protocol. Again, thanks to the research of my husband (truly, I'd be lost without his support and his ability to keep me going). 

Today, is the first day of fasting for the next 7 days. No food. Only drinking an organic sulfur mix, Liph water, taking Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C, and taking one Protandim pill twice per day. 

As with the coconut oil and the baking soda mix, I have a giant headache. I feel empty. Not from hunger, but I have this weird sludgy feeling that comes over me. Emotionally, I'm pretty much a wreck. I'm trying to control my emotions and keep thinking positively, but I have had a few breakdowns in the past few weeks and I can't seem to control them.

These are all documented side effects of detoxing, so I'm trying not to think too much of them. I just hate feeling like this. I feel like I can't talk to anyone who would truly understand how I feel and I don't want to intrude on the "normal" lives of others around me. 

I'm usually a happy go lucky person who looks forward to yoga and planning fun outings. I'm always so thankful for life. That's why these feelings creeping up on me are abnormal. They aren't the real me and I don't like them one bit. I just want it all to be over. 

I remind myself that's why I'm turning myself into a human Guinea pig with all these natural treatments. I have to find what works for me. Something will. I know it. When it does, I'll look back on all of this and realize it was worth it. 

If this current protocol doesn't get me the results I desire the first time around, the regime says I can do it once every month for one week at a time.  

Of course, I'm hoping it works out the first time around! Let's see!

Update On Coconut Oil Cleanse

The bad news is that I didn't make it through the entire 10 day coconut oil cleanse, because I got really weak and very sick. Everything I read said to continue, but I was doubled over and I had to take off work for a few days. 

I made it through more than half of the cleanse and as a result a CHUNK of my cancer bump literally FELL off! It left a noticeable hole in the bottom of my tongue. (Picture provided on the photo page-- for those that do want to see it). 

While looking at it would make anyone shudder, I can only take this change as a positive one. Yes, this time it does hurt. I can't deny that, but I suppose that is to be expected as I have a HOLE in the underside of my tongue. Pretty crazy, right?

Cleansing... Some More

For those of you that don't know, I attend Yoga classes at least 4 times per week while maintaining all of my cancer fighting routines and holding down a full time job. I love what the classes do for me mentally, physically, and emotionally, however; it a dedication that takes up quite a bit of what little time I have. With that being said, this blog has suffered. I'm sorry for that!

In addition, I've been in overdrive trying to get rid of this cancer scar! I got a little sad at the beginning of this week and I couldn't sleep very well. A lady I spent quite a lot of time talking with about her cancer treatment options officially opted to do CHEMO rather than spend time doing the natural stuff. As a result, her body became too weak and she eventually passed away. I felt heartbroken to hear this news and it impacted my ability to focus for a little bit. All I can hope for is that she found some inner peace before she passed on.

As for my progress with the cancer spot...well, it is slow, but still shows signs of changing for the better. I think the reason that the progress slowed down so much may be due to the fact that I introduced too much sugar back into my diet too soon with lots of fruits. 

As an extreme attempt to detox my body and starve these cancer cells of anything they love... I'm doing yet another cleansing treatment. 

My husband found this 10 day coconut oil and water cleanse/fast that we are participating in right now. It seems crazy, but by eating NO FOOD at all for 10 days and only ingesting water and coconut oil I'll be allowing my body to kill bad microbes and focus on healing rather than spending up to 60% of the energy it usually does on digesting food.

My husband is so awesome! He doesn't have to do this cleanse fasting thing with me, but he is just to be supportive. Not to mention, he's seeing some benefits from the fasting experience as well. 

So, that's where I'm at. I'm on day #3 of this fasting cleanse and right now... I'm not going to lie, I feel like crap, but I'm hanging in there! 

Good News!

To all of my friends and family that have been following my journey, I apologize that I am not very good at constantly posting here. You'd never guess that I actually get paid to blog for other companies would you? 

So... I fell off the wagon for about 2 weeks, from my healthier salad eating. I tried a local pizza place where they boasted about having gluten-free crust and Vegan friendly toppings with soy-free cheese! Well, that was all fine and dandy except it kept making me ill. I went home and did a little more research only to learn that the baking spray they utilize for their crust has soy all in it. That isn't just for the gluten-free crust, either. Every single pizza they make has soy sprayed right into the crust!! 

I had to stop immediately and revert back to my planned diet. Guess what? My body is so efficient at getting rid of junk that it doesn't like or need and within 24 hours of being in pain from eating the wrong thing, I kicked it and bounced right back into my old routine like nothing happened. 

Anyway, since I went back to my regime I've seen the sore go away even more. The good news is that I'm now 5 months into my "fight" against cancer and the sore has healed up by 50%. 

The bottom part of the white (leukoplakia), that was near the back of my tongue, is GONE! The only part of the cancer spot still holding on for dear life is the leukoplakia that is near the top of my tongue and closest to the top of my teeth. 

Even what is remaining has softened up. It took a bit longer than expected to get to this point, but I can't complain! Maybe in another few months it'll all be gone!

Still Going...

It has been a little while since I posted last, but in case you were wondering, I am still working on getting rid of this cancer spot the 100% natural way. It's a slow, but steady course I'm on. I have uploaded my most recent picture in the "graphic photos" section of this blog. 

What you may be able to see is that the white skin is getting softer and softer with each passing week. In addition, the redness is disappearing or becoming pink like the rest of the surrounding tongue tissue. 

I have high hopes that what I am doing is working! I hope to inspire others to take the all-natural journey to curing whatever illnesses they may have, because after this journey I have to believe that eating the right way is medicinal!