Happy July 4th

Atlas, it's Friday. I'm so glad the weekend is coming since it's been a pretty busy week. I did work from home on Wednesday and then head into Stanford for my chemo Gemzar treatment. Aside from coming there almost every week, I've been feeling pretty "normal". When I do go there, it always makes me feel so sad and so helpless that I have get poked and get treatment. The taste of saline and heparin before treatment and then after treatment is just so yucky that it makes me a bit nauseous. Chewing on some candy or a granola bar helps distract the taste a little bit. But, I just can't wait until I can just take a pill and have it shrunk my tumors. I'm tempted to ask Dr. Neal to switch me over to the Crizotinib pill.

LDN

When I got home, I was just so tired, after dinner, the kids and I went to bed at 7:30PM.  I can feel that my body is getting so tired of chemo. Been reading on some other methods that some readers kindly wrote to me on how they've fought their stage 4 NSC lung cancer. It's an amazing story on how this one woman, Celia Danks is taking something call LDN to keep stabilizing her Non Small Cell Lung Cancer. You can read more about it at http://www.ldnscience.org/low-dose-naltrexone-ldn/ldn. When I read about this, it states that LDN is, "FDA-approved naltrexone, in a low dose, can normalize the immune system — helping those with HIV/AIDS, cancer, autoimmune diseases, and central nervous system disorders.".  I'm going to read more about this and ask my doctor about this.

Another treatment I'd like to ask my Doctor about is Immunotheraphy. There's been lots of trials on this and I'll have to keep looking to see there are trials in the area. Check out the list of Immunotheraphy trials shown below. 

When I read discussions on how others on Inspire (an online support group), I also learn on this one post http://www.inspire.com/groups/lung-cancer-survivors/discussion/cancer-is-not-invincible-there-are-options-for-stage-iv-or-all-stages/, that discusses about this same LDN medication to fight off cancer.  It also mentions a third medication call "Metformin, that can cut off the cancers food supply - which is glucose. Cancer basically eats sugar. Without it's food, it can be weakened and/or killed off. This medication Metformin, can be used for any type of cancer and does not have to be tested for. The only requirement is that your kidneys are working and not too badly messed up.http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2012/feb2012_Can-Diabetes-Drug-Prevent-Cance r-Death_01.htm?source=search&key=METFORMIN. "

I'll have to do some reading and bring it along at my next Dr. appointment to discuss with him about the benefits of these anti cancer medications.

All is well with me, kids, hubby and our 2 dogs. After the kids last dance, swim and Kumon lessons this coming July, we'll going to take a break from their weekend routine classes and Kumon, and enjoy out weekends just relaxing and doing fun things together.  It's been sort of crazy with the hussle and bussle of always trying to pack them up to go to class for the past 6-7 months of dance, gym and swim lessons. Lots of Love.