My journey with cancer

It’s amazing how a life threatening event can totally change the way we look at life. This is my story. We want to pass on to others what we have learned. March 2017 I woke up with a sore left leg, it felt like i had twisted it but couldn’t remember doing it. The next day i woke up with my left leg swollen from my knee down and by 11am i couldn’t walk on flat ground any more than 10 metre’s and had to stop for 10 minutes to get my breath back. I went to the after hours doctor and he sent me to hospital saying i had clots. I was lucky to be alive as my lungs were down to about 15 percent of capacity and the clots had gone from my leg through my heart and into my lungs. It goes to show that you have to keep your pipes clean otherwise it would have been a heart attack, (see my blog on drinking water). I had my own business was generally fit and never suffered from clots in my 62 years. After a week in hospital on drips, blood thinners, mri’s and tests nothing was found. On the last day a young doctor said sometimes clots can be caused by cancer so they did a psa blood test. A few weeks later i was given an appointment at hospital for a scan. When we turned up it was with an oncologist and he said i have prostate cancer with a reading of 188 (1 to 4 is considered normal) and said to get my affairs in order as i had less than 12 months to live and handed Wendy a box of tissues. Wow what a major rush through my head, everthing i looked at i wondered if it was the last thing i would see.

I went for an MRi scan and heard nothing for weeks so a mate of mine said there were hospital advicates who work between patients and the hospital. After a few days i found out that the 2 people who could read the results were on holiday. I couldn’t believe it here i was dying and they keep no one on to read results. I had a meeting in hospital to discuss the results and they wanted to do a biopsy. I googled biopsies and there was more guys having problems with infections so i declined the kind offer.

I did agree to have a p e t scan which gives you the equivalent of 700 xrays in one hit. I found out it was going to cost me $3800 as prostate cancer is the only cancer not funded by the govenment, all good if you smoke all your life get lung cancer and p e t scan is free. The results came in and the cancer was in the postate and in my spine, they said they could give me radiation for the postate but they couldn’t do nothing for the spine they said i would be in excruciating pain and living very close to the hospital.

I turned down their kind offer of radiation as i figured that if they can’t fix the spine why get sick as doing the postate. At this stage its a wonder i wasn’t charged with pestering as i was on google all the time. I was always one to get my own information before i believe doctors. They wanted me to go on wolfram blood thinners which has to be tested every week as food affects the dose you need. Uncle google said there were other thinners out there that didn’t need weekly tested and as we were planning on traveling new zealand so the first option was not good as well wolfram is a rat poison. Doctors agreed that was the case but still pushed me to have it, again i went for the option that i wanted and i asked them why the push for wolfram and they said it was the devil they know.

I found out that the difference with someone doing chemo or radiation to someone doing self monitoring was nil as far as time to live goes but the one doing self monitoring had a far more enjoyable life.  Uncle google got a thrashing and i found out that your body turns carbs to glucose which cancer lives on so this started our quest on a low carb diet. I was below 15 grams of carbs per day.

A very good friend named Hank has been a godsend as he would research stuff and send me links, some stuff was unbelievable but others made good sense. I can tell you now two and a half years after my first diagnosis i have no pain at all in my body and walking beaches, biking, hunting, fishing and power walking up hills and feeling great.

My PSA results in the last four months have been 10,10,12 and 10 with my latest test. I haven’t been on blood thinners for the last year as i found out that my clots start when my PSA gets up over 100 (getting to know my body). I do take extra strong cucumin which is a natural blood thinner that hospitals use to use before the pharmacuticals came along and Vitamin E which stops the cancer cells up taking oxygen as a food source and i found a product called Serra Enzyme

Which comes from the silk worm, the moth spits this enzyme around the rim of the case. the enzyme melts the silk so the moth can escape before being eaten. Researches found out the enzyme eats any non living tissue in our bodies and has been syntheticly produced and prescribed to all surgery patients in europe for the last 30 years. So this stuff eats anything from scar tissue to clots. The docs told me it would take 6 to 9 months for my body to get rid of the clots naturally. I went for a scan 3 weeks after starting on serra enzyme and all of my clots had gone. That was two and a half years ago and i’m still on them. I met with my dad at hospital as he had a clotting issue so i asked the doc why he wasn’t on the enzyme, the doc googled serra enzyme and turned around to me and said ‘oh they are only supplements’ which means if they are not in the pharmacutical bin you can’t use them. My dad being old school will only do what the docs tell him.