Lucie – Last Saturday, I got some time off thanks to the Weekend Warriors and popped over to Dumbo to see an electrifying all female production of ‘Julius Caesar’ and to look back at the city from under the Manhattan bridge. Here are some of my snaps.
Author: Lucie Young
Marathon
The New York Marathon streamed past our building last weekend, 100 yards from our front door, up 1st Avenue. Healing the Gerson way is a marathon too. It takes 2 years non-stop on the Gerson diet to heal. Laura’s already one eighth of the way along the course and she is being egged on by a…
Gerson Therapy Support Group
Laura – Today I joined the Gerson Therapy Support group’s Facebook page and I have been posting there ever since. I’m feeling less alone knowing there are other people I can connect with who are recovering from cancer using the same therapy as I am. People share advice and experiences and offer support. I was…
Alternative Healing for Depression
We believe the universe is looking after us, steering us away from what no longer works and towards what we need now. That probably sounds like madness, but we’ve had so many fortuitous coincidences it feels like a hand wiser than ours is guiding us. One of the biggest challenges for Laura’s healing is to…
Happy Birthday – Laura!
59 today – and as beautiful as ever!
Weekend Warriors
As it rained down carrots in the kitchen Kerry sighed: ‘Well, I always wanted to be a redhead, or at least live the life of a redhead.’ These past few weekends, the Warriors have juiced juiced, juiced and kept Laura and I in great spirits. Laura also got a foot massage from Marilyn, Bill…
Blood Work Update
Dr Cervantes at the Gerson Clinic in Mexico isn’t happy with Laura’s blood work. Her sodium and chloride levels have dropped too low, her LDH (the cancer marker) has leapt up to 390 and he is worried she isn’t eating all her meals, especially on castor oil days. This is a big deal. It’s really…
Poo Pourri
Here’s another product that ought to be on the essential Gerson Products list. Definitely handy post enema. When we first saw this advert for Poo Pourri, we couldn’t believe it was a real product. Check it out – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKLnhuzh9uY
More Food Porn
Laura – I love food and don’t believe anybody could love it more than me. Sometimes I scroll through Google images just looking at clams, sardines, lamb, oxtail, short ribs, pork belly, etc. I can get lost doing this for hours. Today it was Lobster Newburgh. I’ve had my share of New England lobster in…
Brain Waves
Here’s Laura doing her impersonation of Olivia Newton John (it’s all about the headband). OK so she could be a sleeping sushi chef…She is actually trying out a new device called the Fisher Wallace Stimulator to cure her depression, anxiety and insomnia. It worked for that other 70s icon Carly Simon, who uses it for her depression…
Panda Cam
We are addicted to the Smithsonian Zoo’s Panda Cam. Not much happens. In fact, nothing happens. Panda’s are among the most inactive animals on the planet, like Koalas, both sleep for long periods during the day and at night. But watching Mei Xiang snuggle with her cub is great therapy for us. We are both…
Being Vulnerable
‘Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your…
Anxiety and Biking
Laura -Recently I’ve been suffering from lots of anxiety about how different my life has become. I’m no longer working, living in a different place, afraid I’ll lose my business, worried about having enough money to get through 2 years of this treatment and how I’ll support myself in the future. I’ve also got in touch…
Trampoline
Tigger from ‘Winnie the Pooh’ The fitness prescription for all Gerson cancer patients is rest, rest, rest…and a little trampolining. No kidding. So we’ve just ordered a mini trampoline so Laura can bounce around the living room like Tigger. The idea is a little gentle rebounding (sort of walking in place on the trampoline) helps…
Soul Love Forever 