Never Give Up

I am having a recurrence of my 2009 ovarian cancer. Two months ago after a trip to the emergency room because of severe pain in the bowel, I had a CT scan that showed cancer specks all over the bowel and up on the liver. I was told that the reason I was in so much pain was because the bowel had pretty much adhered to itself where the specks appeared and was all but not functioning. I was told that my only hope was chemo. Remembering my 2009 chemo treatments and the lingering side affects propelled me into looking for alternative methods.

Long story short: I happen to be listening to a talk radio show during that same time period. Someone called in and said people he knew were having luck with their cancers by eating habanero peppers and garlic daily. It seems, that garlic is a natural cancer killer. But cancer cells have a coating around them called "fibrin" that must be dissolved first so that the garlic can get in there and kill the cancer. It was also mentioned that people that have a really hard time eating peppers can substitute with grated ginger.

In my experience, on the day I was listening to this conversation (sometime during Sep 2010) , I did have garlic in the house and I immediately diced up a couple of cloves and ate them. At that point, I had been really sick for several days and was just getting by with pain medication. So you can imagine my surprise when the next morning I awoke and as soon as I opened my eyes I knew I felt much better. I found the peppers that next day and since then, I (daily) dice one pepper and 2 cloves of garlic on a piece of bread to make a half sandwich and just eat it.

It was quite a mental process in the beginning because it was hard for me to even imagine eating something that hot. All I can say is, at that time, I was really sick and looking for any kind relief. As a result, here it is late Nov 2010 and I do continue to feel better. It took a little while, but the bowel is acting more normally and what's even more astonishing is that I have more energy and I look and act more like I do when I am well.

There is a lot of pressure from family to begin chemo again, and I may do that for a time until my CA-125 numbers come down. But I can not help but think (because of the way I feel) that I have just one more tool in my toolbox against this disease.