Dr. Servan-Schreiber

jazzy1 said:

Dr Servan-Schreiber Info
Most of the information in the news on his recurrences and life is written in French. My good friend has gone thru Google to translate from French to English and I've attached just a small portion of news to read.

I've got more articles with translations if anyone has interest...happy to send to you.

Jan

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His story was featured in the nation's leading french magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly, this last week.
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/societe/20110615.OBS5176/le-combat-contre-la-mort-de-david-servan-schreiber.html

I translated article via Google translation tool. You get the jist...

French to English translation

(File "The Book will of David Servan-Schreiber" to read in Le Nouvel Observateur, on newsstands June 16, 2011)



The apartment is flooded with light, despite the sky money from the last day of May The picture window overlooks a tree-lined avenue of Neuilly. Inside, a large family table, cluttered with paperwork, a piano and a partition of a Bach toccata open. The intercom rings at regular intervals, restlessness prevails. Everyone here seems to bustle around a single, David. David Servan-Schreiber.

In June 2010, the famous neuropsychiatrist and author of "Anticancer" and "Heal", suffering from brain cancer for nearly twenty years, made a serious relapse. In February, areas of cancerous growth, inoperable, have appeared in his frontal lobe. Since then, the left side of his body is paralyzed. His eye, his arm, his leg is affected, until his vocal cords.

In April, David Servan-Schreiber has celebrated 50 years in the Paris apartment of his brother, Franklin. A close friend, he decided to tell the truth: "I am suffering from a stage 4 glioblastoma whose forecasts are among the worst of all cancers." But the battle continues, he has said. [...]


> Le Nouvel Observateur: How are you today? How do you feel?

- David Servan-Schreiber [He speaks in a whisper, very slowly at the pen of the interviewer on the notebook.] I feel good. I am happy to be here with you and to have this interview, with the support of Catherine [her publicist and friend].

> How has your health for a year?

- There is one year, everything was fine. I accepted trips, conferences ... I jogguais again, I played squash several times a week. I went quite often to walk in Paris with my wife, Gwen. We prepared a week's holiday together in Portugal. I agreed to participate in Lisbon at a major conference on global resistance to the aging process. I went one end, and for three days, I thought of death. It was a kind of meditative session that felt good.

> You think about your own death? Are there in this case thoughts that reassure or console?

- The first idea that console is that it is no injustice in death. In my case, the only difference is when this happens, not that it happens. Death is part of the process of life, everyone goes. That in itself is scary. We are not detached from the boat. It's not like if someone said: "You, you have no map, you can not go up." This one says simply: "Your card runs out soon, it will not work. Enjoy it now, do the important things you have to do." [...]

> What do you say to those who doubt of "Anticancer"?

- I tell them that it is legitimate for them to ask the question. Personally, I have no doubt that the methods of "Anticancer" have a major impact on strengthening the body's natural defenses against the disease, and many others elsewhere. The science behind it is solid. But we must know two things. The first is that I never promised miracle cure. There is no miracle cure against cancer, which is a very difficult disease. The second is that it is important not to stop conventional treatments, they are not 100% effective, but they are critical because they reduce the spread of the disease, and even set back, sometimes dramatically. And it's not because we have a friend in whom chemotherapy did not work we will begin to shout across the chemo does not work! Finally I tell them that we must cling to the end because there are treatments that slow the cancer process [...].

Interview by Eve Roger - Le Nouvel Observateur

Read the entire file, and extracts from "We can say goodbye several times" (Robert Laffont) in Le Nouvel Observateur, 16 June 2011.

california_artist said:

My Dear Jan,
Funny you should ask and notice. I have gotten internet at home after taking in down for about a year or so. It has, no doubt, been to the delight of some and the consternation of many that I am back. One camp feels I am full of knowledge. The other feels I am just full of it. I do think opinions give one things to consider whilst one is considering things.

I am what I am.

On another note, I don't know if you were here, think you were when I went into the discourse on my one big boob and one little boob dilemma, but I always felt the problem was one of lymph drainage being blocked. My doc insisted it was normal. Pshaw! It is not normal to have such a difference in size, especially if it began to occur around the same time as the cancer. It was at the point where I could appeal to two entirely different type of boob men. After doing my usual due diligence of research, I discovered that the greater the difference in size, the greater the likelihood of getting breast cancer. And here's where I get to my point. After getting the net at home, I looked up breast lymph massage, not the sort of thing one can look up comfortably at your public library, and after only four days of applying the principals of massage and not sleeping with a bra at night, the lumps are gone, and that thing was one lumpy mamma jamma, and is no longer invading the space of the neighboring smaller boob.

I am back down to the traditional two boob look as opposed to the more three-like look I had been sporting. I am soooooooooooooo excited about the progress. Of course I do hope that the cancer has not already developed and I have not inadvertently let it loose.

But as I say, one can only hope.

And to address the place of levity in under such dire circumstances as these. Sometimes a little laughter is the best medicine of all.

My love to you all,

claudia