Lucie – It will be our third anniversary next month. We found each other online. I saw Laura’s picture (the one posted at the start of this blog) and just knew she was the one for me. On our first date we played ping pong, foosball (table football) and billiards at Fat Cat in Greenwich…
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When will there be good news?
Laura – Lucie picked up the full report of my PET/CT scan on Monday and we found the tumors spread much worse than we thought. The doctor didn’t tell us on the phone how bad it was. The cancer spread to most of my organs and my bones. Mucosal melanoma is the most aggressive cancer…
Just Being
Standing in the kitchen today packing up the Gerson things and watching over Laura as she rests (she is still very weak and sleeping a lot), I think this whole experience has shown me that for the first time in my life I’ve experienced true love with a partner. As a child I watched my…
The Cancer Doctor
Laura – I went again to one of the “best cancer hospitals” this Friday. It’s a joke to me since they haven’t anything healthy to offer me. I saw the chemo doctor. I had to, since I needed to schedule a full body PET Scan which I will have today at 8 AM. I told…
Caring Paradox
At the start of our adventure with the Gerson technique, I thought the biggest hurdle would be keeping up with the relentless amount of juicing, shopping, cleaning and covering the immense costs of doing the diet. But what I didn’t fully envision was that doing the Gerson technique would mean I would never again be…
Good News!
Laura’s LDH, the cancer marker according to the Gerson doctors, has dropped over 1,000 points! Yes, you read that right over 1,000 points. She was way up at 2,674 and is now down to 1,613. Normal is below 600 so she still has a way to go, but at the end of the week from…
Exhaustion
Laura – I can’t tell you how many times I want to stop the Gerson diet, especially now that I have a secondary infection. I feel dizzy and weak. I haven’t been juicing or doing enemas for days so in some way I’m not doing the Gerson therapy right now. All I can really do…
Fever + Cancer
Laura’s has had an unimaginably hard week what with her on/off fever, rigors, drenching sweats (three nights in a row), coughing and vomiting. Yesterday, at the suggestion of her oncologist, we visited a local urgent care unit for a chest x-ray. It showed no metastasis (YHEA!!!!!!) and no sign of pneumonia (which the oncologist feared)….
Killing the Tumors
Soon after Laura developed a high temperature (103.2) yesterday afternoon, her bleeding almost stopped. But after taking the acetomenophen in the evening to normalize her temperature the bleeding started back up. Did we stop the healing action too soon – before the tumors fully died off? In the Gerson books it says you shouldn’t cut…
The Eye of the Storm
We always joked that when Laura started to stink it would be good news. Mid-week it happened. The blood from Laura’s tumors turned rank. ‘I smell like old dog,’ Laura wailed. Today as Laura’s fever hit 103 and rising, her whole body started to smell like a family of Gerbils was in bed with her….
Comfort Me with Apples
In his original book A Cancer Therapy, Max Gerson notes that during healing reactions patients typically ask for more raw uncooked foods and more apple juice, raw grated apples and mashed bananas. On Monday morning, Laura felt nauseous again. She didn’t feel like eating, not even her rolled oats for breakfast. Instead she was craving fruits as Gerson…
Full-on Healing Reaction Begins..
On Sunday Nov 17th, Laura woke up and felt particularly dreadful. She was headachy, weak, anxious, nauseous, somewhat confused, she had difficulty finding the right words, her vision was blurry and she was running a fever. For a few seconds she also developed numbness in one hand and on her face. What to do? The…
Soul Love Forever 