I woke up tired this morning.
A month ago I would have though I was getting a cold or the flu. Now I think CANCER!. It is making me weak! Don't doctors always ask if you have any fatigue, or weight loss.
I have lost 3 kilograms in 2 weeks. I am eating very healthy, and walking lots. But I look at the scale and think CANCER! it is eating me up, and using all my nourishment!
I need to not pay attention to myself. I am an over dramatic person with a vivid imagination. I have met the enemy, and he is me.
The latest Popular Mechanic has an article on T-cell treatment for cancer. It seems that when they get it right, it cures cancer. A 10 minute treatment has a patient cured in about 10 days. Not just remission, but cured. Sometimes it kills the patient. That is a bad side effect. :-)
There seem to be 5 different ways to treat cancer. Surgery, chemo, radiation, cell targeting, and now CAR T-cell immunology.
The problem seems to be if your doctor is a surgeon, guess which treatment he will chooses?
I think that the best treatment potentially is the T-cell treatment. It is not a cut, burn, poison therapy. It is a cure.
But the powers that be, in the Medical Aid conferences are the one to decide what treatment I will get.
Perhaps the best thing for me is to eat healthy, and stay active. Let my immune system do it's job.
The immune system will kill cancer cells, but many cancer tumors fake the immune system into leaving them alone. After all even a cancer cell, is a part of my body. We can't have immune systems killing off healthy body parts.
I walked about 6 kilometers today, and have eaten only a fruit salad, and a health salad.
Now to just NOT panic if I lose some weight.
Will eating healthy actually make a difference? What if you had eaten fruit salads and health salads all your life? Would things be different now or the same?
ReplyDeleteI believe eating healthy will improve my health, or else, I would be eating a pizza right now. :-)
ReplyDeleteMy body consists of only what I put into it. I want my immune system's ability to fight cancer to be at the theoretical maximum.
Eating healthy my whole life, will not improve my life span if I get killed by a bus. It will improve my bodies ability to fight any disease, wounds or infection caused by a non-fatal bus hit. (or a scorpion sting)
If my body has the ability to beat this cancer, then I will have wished I had eaten healthier my whole life. If death from this cancer is inevitable, then I wish I had eaten more doughnuts.
Only hindsight will tell what I should have done.