What I’m Doing Now

After my recent PET/CT scan, I spent a few weeks getting input from the practitioners on my healing team, and consulting my inner wisdom. I am now implementing the treatment decisions I have made. I have stopped taking both Femara and mistletoe. I have started taking...

What’s Next?

The last time I wrote, I mentioned my CA 27.29 cancer marker. It continued to go up for three months in a row, getting up to 785, which led to my getting a PET/CT scan to see what was going on. A couple of hours after the scan, the doctor who was reading it and...

Roller Coaster of Cancer

I prefer writing in my blog when I have good news. But I promised to write quarterly and it’s time. I don’t have good news, but maybe this is another form of the lesson to not judge news as good or bad. Whatever is, is. I have a monthly blood test that includes a...

Cancer Markers Up Again

When I decided to write a blog every 3 months, I thought I would have a lot of time between posts, but the time has gone by quickly. There have been some changes in the past 3 months. My cancer markers (CA 27.29) have gone up for the past two months, from 109.5 to...

What makes a difference?

Once again, it’s been three months since I have written. Maybe I should just decide this is a quarterly blog so I don’t feel disappointed in myself that I don’t write more often. For me, cancer is not an emergency and there isn’t a lot happening. That is good news. My...

Progress report on healing

It’s been 3 months since I wrote that my cancer markers (CA27.29) had gone down for five months in a row. I continue to have a blood test every month. In August it went up slightly, in September it went down about 25 points, and in October it went up 4.6 points....