A Magic Carpet Ride

After several false starts this morning I am finally tapping on the keyboard with 2 calloused fingers although writing with my fountain pen is still one of the pure pleasures of life. It’s a simple $80 Lamy beginner’s pen that I use every day. I’ve had it for almost a year now and have never once come close to misplacing it. It’s almost like an extension of my body.

OK. So where I am at?

New oncologist today. We have an appointment at 2 pm in the city. It’s just exploratory and to gather information and contacts. What I’m really looking for is a metabolic oncologist, but more on that later.

PET scan on Tuesday at Moorabbin Hospital in Centre Rd East Bentleigh. Oh shit, this is where I spent my teenage years. It’s just down the road from my old High School. How ironical is that?

And then an MRI at the Clayton campus of Monash Hospital on Wednesday.

On Thursday we have our first meeting with the Head and Neck team at Moorabbin.

Apart from that it’s been intensive research. Hours and hours of it. Oh my god, I still have so far to go, so much to learn. The concepts are moving into place as are a few details but the finer biochemical points remain an enigma. Still, I plan to continue the research and will become as knowledgable as is humanly possible as a weapon against whatever condition that exists.

I’m reading new research as well as mainstream data but as I said yesterday the big hurdle at the moment is still the terminology but even my understanding of that is slowly getting better.

I still feel great. In some ways better than I was before I found out on November 24. That may sound strange but the intense focus and discipline that I am applying is helping me to create space between myself and the situation. It’s a bit like “me and it”. Please don’t get me wrong, I know that it’s my body that is being effected but in more of a “spiritual” approach “I” can remain objective and treat my body with good nutrition and the best possible supplements and enhance my mind/brain with mew information that will help me make the best decisions for myself.

Overall I am not feeling too stressed. I get a bit speedy, a bit anxious sometimes but that passes quickly. Mainly because I make it pass as there is no value in feeling that way. 

Remember the post the other day with the analogy of the tree and the tree’s root systems and the soil? Well, working on the soil seems to be working even though there is a lot more to do to enhance it even more to protect “the tree”.

I have come across a researcher in the past few days named Thomas Siefried. His research has lead him to the conclusion that cancer is a metabolic disease of the mitochondria in the cells and that it relies on the supply of glucose and glutamine to “feed” itself and proliferate in a low oxygen environment in order to use fermentation to survive. Also cancer cells operate on the command that they must survive and they are not willing to give themselves up for the greater good through apoptosis.