Pete did you get scan results??

joemetz said:

UdaMan!!!
Pete

thanks so much for sharing this great news.
I am sooooo happy to read this and so happy for your and your family.

i read a lot of your posts, yet i do not comment on everything like i should... but your great news right here continues to be inspiration to us all.

keep sharing and sharing.

My pray for continued good news to you and all who are fighting this stuff

my best

Joe

thanks joe
sharing well it helps me,

if its interesting read, and comment, some do and thanks.

early on i wanted to change the world into being alternative or complementary.

now i am just happy enough to change myself and try to stay on this wonderful ball of dirt.

we are such a resourceful species, i wonder how we get ourselves into the messes we do, the big mess we have the planet and our lives in.

but one mess at a time, i still have these confounding cea rises over the 9 months almost now and all clear scans for which i am so grateful for.

you know my cancer has helped me choose my words more carefully, its ok for you to fight this stuff, and i often sound that way.

but i so much prefer to say i am just "pursuing health" with a peaceful smile. ok a tad determined as well.

when i fight for me in conjures up the option of winning or loosing and its focused on a future outcome.

my meditation and reading and approach to life has lead me to the spot where i will make my juice, sip it. watch my kids watching tv enjoying life. i am savouring the moments constantly. with not to many expectations of the future, i am aware of living well now, at this moment. i am rambling but it something i wanted to share here anyway.

their is nothing really wrong with fighting, but its not for me. while even last night when studying hoore moans on the porn channel, thats a joke. hormones like cortisol i mean , well you just want to keep the hpa axis relaxed. meditation is crucial to staying relaxed and driving down cortisol, which drives down glucose from memory. even today in my gcmaf research i found amazing papers about aides patients getting huges benefits from meditation. it was a big trial. i floated that idea here on csn and it went over like a lead balloon. but the concept of fighting cancer, has aggression.

thanks for the prayers, i have faith god is listening, but i suspect our fate is in our hands, of course all miracles large and small gratefully accepted.

but for me each day is a miracle, so i am happy enough and certainly grateful to have friends here to ramble on with and share this bond with.

hugs,
pete

tanstaafl said:

run up during uncertainty
My wife's CEA quintupled even while on chemo before her 2nd surgery last year for the large cluster of residual lymph nodes.

Our plan to stop metastasis was to maximize the LEF etc ingredients and to use the low dose oral chemo EVERY day, THROUGH surgery. Depending on how you count, minus 24 - 48 hrs of chemo for surgery. After review of about 6-10 papers, mostly Japanese papers and abstracts in English, with perioperative chemo examples and series using UFT (oral chemo) or 5FU perioperatively (immediately before, during and/or after surgery), the do-ability and benefit of chemo-surgery was established. UFT appeared better to me than capecitabine for the cancerous epithelial cells that spread through the bloodstream, based on papers and metabolic process. However UFT (aka UFUR) is not available in North America - mostly Europe and Asia. Containing any problems to a single site, or at least no new mets, is a big win.

My wife's oncology surgeon seems to regard her success as a triumph of aggressive rationality over herd mindedness. I don't think the surgeon has had (m)any other chemo-surgery volunteers. We were confident because of the enhanced wound healing implicit in a good super-nutritional drill and previous experience.

thanks tans, ouch!!! quintupled
if all my wako alternatives fail, i'll be looking over all those cool japanese studies UFUR sounds pretty sexy not like folfox. i done folfox and its planned to do it again.

but to be honest i want a refund for my folfox, this recurrance potentially sux!!!

yes a big dam refund!!!!

I would like to try another more gentler sexy chemo, if i have to UFUR could be it!

Its my body, i make the choices. Right now bath and sleep.

If its worth anything mate, love is the key to healing, i firmly believe that. its the one supplement we cannot buy. even from lef! ha ha ha

hugs,
Pete

steved said:

Great news
Good to hear the scan results, Pete. It is so hard living with this unertainty around this disease. Our tools are so blunt and primitive compared to the complexity of the illness and I think at times they do more harm than good. In some ways I wonder what the value of knowing a cea is rising is? For you it seems to help drive your determination and you use it in a positive way to explore avenues towards health which is great to see.

I too will toast you - but with a good New Zealand chardonnay- none of this wheat grass for me I'm afraid!

All the best,
steve

thanks steve
i will toast you as well.

why not use our challenges positively ?

whats the purpose of life , it not grow.

even my last day will be a great one, but i hope its a while away for me and all me friends.

alas, what the universe dishes us up individually is miracluous in a sense.

you kiwis, don't need WHEATgrass, you got heaps of other grass over there.

thats supposed to have healing benefits as well. only joking.

seriously thanks. i am grateful for my positive attitude, its really fueled by the joy of being alive. not a forced positiveness, its real to me.

its just a great day this morning, your kind reply and a clean nappy. really what else does one need. now i also had the wife on one side and my son on the other. he got a morning hug and back scratch.

real love is what drives our survival, i have faith in its healing power, not just all our amazing science proven and in developement.

hugs,
pete

thingy45 said:

Fantastic
I have been away and come back to your good news.
glad to here the scan was clear.
You must have more xray pictures of your self then family pictures by now. just joking
As long as you are smiling and happy, that is what is imported.

My motto is stil, One day at a time
and a day not laughed is a day not lived.

who cares about nappies, you are alive that is what counts.
Quality for me, not Quantaty.
My choice.
I often read all what you have written on and about your journey, it inspires me to go on
and never give up. Meditation makes me human, because I can be cranky.
I have a "gratefull" journal and read back and it works for me. A lot to be gratefull for.
You are right. REAL love is what drives our survival. You are nothing when you are not loved
Believe it, and love back with all your might
hugs, Marjan

thanks marjan
strange is it that the most important aspect of healing is love and we talk most about supplements, diet and food and treatments. the sunrise yesterday was just stunning.

i used to be cranky as well, meditation works. glad someone reads a few of my adventures.

you know i am grateful for the nappies, i am alive as you say. its just another challenge on this journey we share called life.

I like to be balanced with my alternatives with the costs and benefits, and the issues i face.

the grateful journal is such a good idea, i am glad your doing it, all us would find something.

in the book on open awareness the secret of the grateful journal is just we are focused on what we are grateful for, and with so much strife in crc's lives being pleasantly distract and filled with joy and gratitude beats the hell out of being depressed and negative and cynical.

I am trying to be me, being a bit out there, being open to love and rejection. no point living safely now, might as well just do what you say "love back with all your might"

so well put! thanks.

hugs,
pete

relaxoutdoors08 said:

Thinking of you With Positive Thoughts
Pete,
Sending my best to you. Glad to hear the good news.
NB

thanks nb
receiving the best vibes.
thanks

hugs,
pete