Be out of touch for 2 weeks **Update** Rudolph Steiner Health Center, Ann Arbor, MI

Hey all

I'll be away from a computer for a couple weeks while I'm at the Rudolph Steiner Health Center in Ann Arbor, MI. Keep on keeping on you all.

all the best, Leslie

***UPDATE**

Hello all and Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all!

I've been catching up on reading all your posts, and please know that I'm thinking of all of you as we all go up and down on this cancer roller coaster.

Just before Thanksgiving I returned from a two week intensive health retreat at the Rudolph Steiner Health Center @ the Anna Botsford Bach Home, Ann Arbor, MI.

"The Health Center follows the Anthroposophic medical guidelines of Austrian scientist-philosopher Rudolf Steiner. The retreat is modeled on the Lukas Klinik in Arlesheim, Switzerland and serves patients with chronic illnesses such as cancer, chronic fatigue, rheumatoid arthritis and vascular disease. Our patients enjoy a two-week program including daily doctor's visits, nursing applications, artistic therapies, rhythmical massage, speech formation and curative eurythmy. Daily medical discussions foster a team approach to healing. Staff and patients share organic/biodynamic meals together. Our retreat is the first anthroposophic in-patient care center in the United States." For further cancer treatment reading refer to: http://www.steinerhealth.org/about/cancer-treatment/

What a delightful time! I continued my IV Vitamin C therapy, added IV mistletoe (Iscador) 1x/week, did music, spatial dynamics movement therapy and even painted my first watercolors! The weather was delightful the first week and decent the second week for November in MI. I enjoyed daily walks through the hardwoods in a nearby city park, went to a concert put on by the Ann Arbor Symphony, and saw the play Bye Bye Birdie at the Rudolph Steiner High School.

Back home we are finally seeing some snow come down though it's not a huge storm today (hopefully 6"). Yesterday I brush hogged some ski trails through the sage brush so here's hoping we get enough this year, like we did last year, to keep some trails going through the winter. The horses will be moving to winter pasture soon and Dave is intrepidly trying to sprout some cilantro and basil seeds in the south facing window while kale continues to grow in the bedroom (saved from the grasshopper onslaught this summer). Phoebe, the border collie, stacks her own piles of wood as Dave stacks his. She has learned to leave Dave's stacks alone - mostly.

On December 8 Dave and I travel to SLC and the Huntsman for another 3 month PET/CT scan plus my 6 month check-up with my GI surgeon. We return to Lander December 10. We also have scheduled an appt. with the thoracic surgeon on December 13 if needed, and we hope not, as Wait and Watch is just fine. Additionally, I, and many on my health team are curious (a generous term under the circumstances) about how the IV Vitamin C is working. Please send along your good wishes for this time.

all the best, Leslie


"A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit."
-Rudolf Steiner