Today is the fifth day of my urine fast. Yesterday I felt pretty weak and still hungry. It is difficult to be around food cooking. My senses are all more acute--smells especially! Today I feel less hungry, so smelling food isn't as bothersome.
I've lost weight since starting the fast. When I started I weighed 127 pounds; this morning I weighed 117. I hope the weight loss slows down; I can't afford to lose 10 pounds every five days!
I went to yoga class this morning, and my friend and teacher Kyla had a very slow and easy yoga session. Afterwords I was so happy that she had time to give me a massage. (Kyla is also a massage therapist.) The massage was heavenly, and I feel really good. I think getting massages is important on this fasting treatment. The slow stretches of yoga also help.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Urine Therapy revisited
My husband handed me a familiar book a couple of weeks ago, and suggested I read it again. The book is The Water of Life by John Armstrong. It is the book that introduced urine therapy to western readers, and is the first book I read about this amazing therapy. In it is a chapter on the effect of urine therapy on cancer, with several stories about successful treatment of breast cancer. Although I had read this chapter many years ago, I had forgotten much of what was recommended for treating people with cancer. He treated people by having them go on a fast, drinking only urine and water. In addition they rubbed aged urine on their skin, from head to toe, and kept urine packs on the tumor round the clock. This is the treatment I really didn't want to do, but I realized on re-reading the book that this is the treatment I really need to do. So I resolved to start my fast the day after Christmas.
Today is the third day of fasting. The first two days I had plenty of energy. I have been dancing every morning for 30 minutes as an aerobic exercise, then doing about 15 to 30 minutes of yoga as a cool-down. Dancing felt so good the first two days of the fast. I thought: "hey, this won't be too bad!" I felt very hungry, especially when my daughter baked a pizza in the oven last night, followed by baking cookies! But I kept my resolve and didn't eat anything.
However, this morning I woke up feeling rather shaky and weak. I don't feel particularly hungry, but I don't feel like doing much. Maybe I will feel like doing yoga, but I'm wondering if I'll be able to continue the dancing.
Armstrong recommended drinking only urine and water. I am actually adding some things to the fast: wheat grass juice (about 1 ounce every morning), a selenium supplement, and an iron supplement. I'm also drinking the herb tea that Jason Winters put together and adding Pao de Arco to that. I am continuing the modified citrus pectin, and adding to it creatine. I am also supplementing my urine with a little urea to increase the alkalinity in my body, and checking my acid/alkaline balance with litmus paper. I've been testing very alkaline! While I am on the fast, I will not be doing the IV vitamin C treatments.
Every evening I've been rubbing aged urine (about a week old) all over my body. I've found that using a wad of lamb's wool works very well for doing the rubs. (An interesting thing about natural wool--if you rinse it out, it does not keep any urine smell. That is one reason 100% wool "soakers" work so well for diaper covers.) I do the rubs in our warm sauna, which has become a sort of sanctuary. I'm finding the aged urine rubs provide a loving ritual for me; I feel very meditative as I rub the urine into my skin, starting at my head, and continuing down to my feet. I let the urine dry on my skin, then put on a warm nightie and a wool hat, and get into bed. While the smell of aged urine is not pleasant, I've been enjoying the way it makes me feel so much, that I really don't mind at all. Fortunately my husband has done many of his own aged urine rubs, so he doesn't mind either. For some reason the urine keeps my body feeling very warm all night. By morning, my skin feels soft and smells sweet! I shower (no soap!), and prepare a urine-soaked wool compress to place directly over the breast lump. I'm using fresh urine for the compresses. I soak one piece of wool, and then place a dry piece over the wet one, and over that a plastic baggie to keep the moisture in, and I use a soft bra to hold the compress in place.
I started doing the urine rubs about a week ago, and I think they are mainly responsible for the improvement of my lungs, although that could be a result of the IV Vitamin C treatments. So far I haven't noticed any shrinking of the lump on my breast or on my lymph node. I plan to continue with the urine fast until the lump goes away, or until I have lost so much weight that it is dangerous. According to Armstrong, I should see changes in the tumor within a couple of weeks.
I've been practicing auto urine therapy for many years, but never to this extreme. I feel very blessed to have learned about it, and I feel very positive about this treatment. It is one of the most ancient treatments in the world, and I've heard hundreds of success stories about its use, not just for cancer, but for many other acute and chronic conditions. I find it very wonderful that we create the means for our own healing, and it always available to us, free of charge!
Today is the third day of fasting. The first two days I had plenty of energy. I have been dancing every morning for 30 minutes as an aerobic exercise, then doing about 15 to 30 minutes of yoga as a cool-down. Dancing felt so good the first two days of the fast. I thought: "hey, this won't be too bad!" I felt very hungry, especially when my daughter baked a pizza in the oven last night, followed by baking cookies! But I kept my resolve and didn't eat anything.
However, this morning I woke up feeling rather shaky and weak. I don't feel particularly hungry, but I don't feel like doing much. Maybe I will feel like doing yoga, but I'm wondering if I'll be able to continue the dancing.
Armstrong recommended drinking only urine and water. I am actually adding some things to the fast: wheat grass juice (about 1 ounce every morning), a selenium supplement, and an iron supplement. I'm also drinking the herb tea that Jason Winters put together and adding Pao de Arco to that. I am continuing the modified citrus pectin, and adding to it creatine. I am also supplementing my urine with a little urea to increase the alkalinity in my body, and checking my acid/alkaline balance with litmus paper. I've been testing very alkaline! While I am on the fast, I will not be doing the IV vitamin C treatments.
Every evening I've been rubbing aged urine (about a week old) all over my body. I've found that using a wad of lamb's wool works very well for doing the rubs. (An interesting thing about natural wool--if you rinse it out, it does not keep any urine smell. That is one reason 100% wool "soakers" work so well for diaper covers.) I do the rubs in our warm sauna, which has become a sort of sanctuary. I'm finding the aged urine rubs provide a loving ritual for me; I feel very meditative as I rub the urine into my skin, starting at my head, and continuing down to my feet. I let the urine dry on my skin, then put on a warm nightie and a wool hat, and get into bed. While the smell of aged urine is not pleasant, I've been enjoying the way it makes me feel so much, that I really don't mind at all. Fortunately my husband has done many of his own aged urine rubs, so he doesn't mind either. For some reason the urine keeps my body feeling very warm all night. By morning, my skin feels soft and smells sweet! I shower (no soap!), and prepare a urine-soaked wool compress to place directly over the breast lump. I'm using fresh urine for the compresses. I soak one piece of wool, and then place a dry piece over the wet one, and over that a plastic baggie to keep the moisture in, and I use a soft bra to hold the compress in place.
I started doing the urine rubs about a week ago, and I think they are mainly responsible for the improvement of my lungs, although that could be a result of the IV Vitamin C treatments. So far I haven't noticed any shrinking of the lump on my breast or on my lymph node. I plan to continue with the urine fast until the lump goes away, or until I have lost so much weight that it is dangerous. According to Armstrong, I should see changes in the tumor within a couple of weeks.
I've been practicing auto urine therapy for many years, but never to this extreme. I feel very blessed to have learned about it, and I feel very positive about this treatment. It is one of the most ancient treatments in the world, and I've heard hundreds of success stories about its use, not just for cancer, but for many other acute and chronic conditions. I find it very wonderful that we create the means for our own healing, and it always available to us, free of charge!
December family gatherings
December has never been an easy month for me--my wedding anniversary, my birthday, my daughter's birthday, Christmas, and my step-mother's birthday all happen in this month. I always feel like I go from one celebration and party to another with little breathing room. I enjoy all the socializing, but the preparation and clean-up are stressful.
This year my step-sister flew down from Vancouver, WA to organize an early birthday party for her mother, who turned 99 this year. My father is also 99, and they married five and a half years ago. They had graduated from high school together in Fairhope, Alabama (in a class of 11), but then went their separate ways. They had kept in touch with each other with yearly Christmas cards, and they attended a high school reunion together. After my mother died in 1992, my father contacted Augusta (my step-mom) who had lost her husband as well. However, he decided to marry another woman that he knew. She died in 2001, and he courted Augusta. They got married, and are living in a retirement home. So, Sara (Augusta's daughter) organized a big birthday party, and I helped some.
I had asked my three children who are not living in Joplin to come together for a family Christmas celebration. My oldest daughter is Kristin, who lives in St. Louis. Erich is my oldest son, living in Kansas City, and he brought his girlfriend, Sarah, who seems like family as well. My youngest son, Aaron, is a student at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Kristin drove to Columbia, picked up Aaron, then they picked up Erich and Sarah in Kansas City and they all came down. My daughter Veronica turned 12 on December 15, and she really enjoyed seeing all her siblings. I had hired a caterer to prepare our main meal (a first for me--usually I prepare everything!) and he prepared enough food that we plenty to eat throughout their stay, which was only a little over a day. We had a gift exchange and played games, and had a wonderful relaxed family time. I don't have all four of my children together very often, so we took a lot of pictures. The picture at the beginning of this post is one of them.
The Sunday before Christmas I sang with our little choir at church. We had been practicing on four special pieces, and I really enjoyed performing them--both at the morning service, and again for a candlelight service in the evening. Music has always been a big part of Christmas for me; I love to sing the traditional carols as well as other beautiful Christmas music. It was a little difficult to sing this year, as I kept feeling like coughing, but interestingly, while I was performing with the choir, the urge to cough was not there.
During the lead-up to Christmas, I was getting the intravenous vitamin C treatments every other day, and by Christmas my lungs felt clear. I can still feel a tiny irritation when I take a deep breath, but the urge to cough every time I speak is gone.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
No Wonder Insurance Rates are so High
I feel like I've dipped my big toe (or in this case my right breast) into the shark-infested waters of the medical establishment. The sharks are hungry for body parts and money--especially money!
Before I decided to get the biopsy, I asked how much I would be expected to pay. I was given an estimate of $1,200. As a "self-pay" (i.e. not insured) person, I need to be able to budget for these expenses. I was informed about a program I could apply for that would cover my medical expenses, but I needed to have an income of under $32,000 a year. Our income last year was over that amount, and we also hold quite a bit more in assets, so I knew that we would probably not qualify. I didn't apply for the program because I figured we could afford $1,200.
When I went for the biopsy, they told me the cost would be $741 instead of $1,200, and I thought "well, this won't be SO bad!" Then I found out that if I wanted to have the lymph node biopsied as well, it would cost another $741. I almost said "no," but I did want to find out if the cancer had spread, so I said to go ahead. I had asked about checking a little bump on the lump, thinking that the surgeon would biopsy that part of my breast, but instead he made a separate incision, so I ended up with three incisions, each one costing $741. I am planning to protest the third charge, as I really had only consented to two, and I didn't realize until he made the third incision that he was making three separate biopsies.
Then I had to pay for an "office visit" with the surgeon, another $66 to have him tell me what my regular doctor had already told me on the phone--yes, I do have cancer. He couldn't give me any more information, nor could he make a copy of the pathologist report. All he did was tell me I had cancer and urge me to make an appointment with a breast surgeon. (I wish I made $66 for telling a five minute story!)
I paid $2223 for the biopsy, and thought that was it. But NO! Wait--there's MORE! A couple of weeks ago I received another bill from a medical lab in Springfield, MO for $495 for the pathologist evaluation of my surgical specimen. Hmmm, I guess I should have anticipated that another lab would look at the specimen. Somehow I thought that would be included in the amount I paid the breast center.
But wait, there's MORE! A few days ago I received yet another bill, from a laboratory in New Jersey for $1,900. I called them to ask about this bill, but the lady could only tell me that St. John's hospital had sent the specimen to them for clinical analysis. I asked why I also got a bill from a lab in Springfield, and she didn't know. The people at St. John's couldn't give me any information to shed light on why I received two separate bills for lab work.
The sharks are circling. If I refuse to pay the bills, (which I am considering doing since I did not contract with either lab for their services, and had no idea that these charges would be made,) the bills will be sent to a collection agency, and our excellent credit rating will be shot. If I give in and pay these exorbitant charges, the sharks will continue to feed off other unsuspecting victims.
I used to run a consumer protection agency in Lawrence, Kansas. If a business made charges to a consumer for services that the consumer didn't ask for, we would have asked that those charges be dropped. In the shark-infested medical waters, however, I don't know if there is a consumer protection agency that can go to bat for us. This seems to be a consumer protection issue--maybe I can write to our state attorney general's office. In Missouri, our present attorney general is about to become the governor. Maybe I should go to the top and write to the governor-elect!
The best thing that comes out of this experience is that it strengthens my resolve to use alternative healing methods to get rid of my cancer. For now on, I will avoid medical procedures whenever possible, and for lab work that I deem necessary, I will try to go directly to the lab. Luckily there are labs like MyMedLab.com that make such things possible.
Before I decided to get the biopsy, I asked how much I would be expected to pay. I was given an estimate of $1,200. As a "self-pay" (i.e. not insured) person, I need to be able to budget for these expenses. I was informed about a program I could apply for that would cover my medical expenses, but I needed to have an income of under $32,000 a year. Our income last year was over that amount, and we also hold quite a bit more in assets, so I knew that we would probably not qualify. I didn't apply for the program because I figured we could afford $1,200.
When I went for the biopsy, they told me the cost would be $741 instead of $1,200, and I thought "well, this won't be SO bad!" Then I found out that if I wanted to have the lymph node biopsied as well, it would cost another $741. I almost said "no," but I did want to find out if the cancer had spread, so I said to go ahead. I had asked about checking a little bump on the lump, thinking that the surgeon would biopsy that part of my breast, but instead he made a separate incision, so I ended up with three incisions, each one costing $741. I am planning to protest the third charge, as I really had only consented to two, and I didn't realize until he made the third incision that he was making three separate biopsies.
Then I had to pay for an "office visit" with the surgeon, another $66 to have him tell me what my regular doctor had already told me on the phone--yes, I do have cancer. He couldn't give me any more information, nor could he make a copy of the pathologist report. All he did was tell me I had cancer and urge me to make an appointment with a breast surgeon. (I wish I made $66 for telling a five minute story!)
I paid $2223 for the biopsy, and thought that was it. But NO! Wait--there's MORE! A couple of weeks ago I received another bill from a medical lab in Springfield, MO for $495 for the pathologist evaluation of my surgical specimen. Hmmm, I guess I should have anticipated that another lab would look at the specimen. Somehow I thought that would be included in the amount I paid the breast center.
But wait, there's MORE! A few days ago I received yet another bill, from a laboratory in New Jersey for $1,900. I called them to ask about this bill, but the lady could only tell me that St. John's hospital had sent the specimen to them for clinical analysis. I asked why I also got a bill from a lab in Springfield, and she didn't know. The people at St. John's couldn't give me any information to shed light on why I received two separate bills for lab work.
The sharks are circling. If I refuse to pay the bills, (which I am considering doing since I did not contract with either lab for their services, and had no idea that these charges would be made,) the bills will be sent to a collection agency, and our excellent credit rating will be shot. If I give in and pay these exorbitant charges, the sharks will continue to feed off other unsuspecting victims.
I used to run a consumer protection agency in Lawrence, Kansas. If a business made charges to a consumer for services that the consumer didn't ask for, we would have asked that those charges be dropped. In the shark-infested medical waters, however, I don't know if there is a consumer protection agency that can go to bat for us. This seems to be a consumer protection issue--maybe I can write to our state attorney general's office. In Missouri, our present attorney general is about to become the governor. Maybe I should go to the top and write to the governor-elect!
The best thing that comes out of this experience is that it strengthens my resolve to use alternative healing methods to get rid of my cancer. For now on, I will avoid medical procedures whenever possible, and for lab work that I deem necessary, I will try to go directly to the lab. Luckily there are labs like MyMedLab.com that make such things possible.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Positive Dream!
Cell by cell I am clearing my cancer.
Cell by cell, it is melting away.
Cell by cell, I grow clearer and stronger
As cell by cell, I am healing today!
These are the words to a little song that I sing often. It is like an underground river that runs through my consciousness constantly. I was singing it as I awoke this morning, and then I remembered this dream:
I am looking at an x-ray (or results of some kind of scan) showing my chest. There are some spots on my lungs which the doctor says are my cancer. There are several small spots, and one larger one up high on my left lung. As I look at the scan, I can see the spots getting lighter and smaller until they disappear. The doctor is surprised. I am elated in the dream.
I have had an irritating chronic cough since about last September, and while it seems to improve sometimes, it will then come back. Of course this is a symptom of lung cancer. I have not had any tests to tell whether the cancer has spread to my lungs or not, and don't really plan to. As an uninsured person, I find that I need to be very careful about asking for medical tests--they always cost way more than I anticipated. The treatments I'm doing for the breast cancer will also address other cancers.
I had noticed yesterday that the cough was much better, but it has improved before only to worsen again, so I tried not to be too optimistic. Then I had the dream, and this morning I feel no urge to cough, even when I take a deep breath or talk! If I do force a cough, I can still feel a tiny irritation in my lungs, but compared to what it felt like a week ago, it is about 90% improvement. It is hard to believe that if I do have lung cancer only two vitamin C treatments (and the herbs, etc. that I'm taking) would work so fast.
Cell by cell I am clearing my cancer!
Cell by cell, it is melting away.
Cell by cell, I grow clearer and stronger
As cell by cell, I am healing today!
These are the words to a little song that I sing often. It is like an underground river that runs through my consciousness constantly. I was singing it as I awoke this morning, and then I remembered this dream:
I am looking at an x-ray (or results of some kind of scan) showing my chest. There are some spots on my lungs which the doctor says are my cancer. There are several small spots, and one larger one up high on my left lung. As I look at the scan, I can see the spots getting lighter and smaller until they disappear. The doctor is surprised. I am elated in the dream.
I have had an irritating chronic cough since about last September, and while it seems to improve sometimes, it will then come back. Of course this is a symptom of lung cancer. I have not had any tests to tell whether the cancer has spread to my lungs or not, and don't really plan to. As an uninsured person, I find that I need to be very careful about asking for medical tests--they always cost way more than I anticipated. The treatments I'm doing for the breast cancer will also address other cancers.
I had noticed yesterday that the cough was much better, but it has improved before only to worsen again, so I tried not to be too optimistic. Then I had the dream, and this morning I feel no urge to cough, even when I take a deep breath or talk! If I do force a cough, I can still feel a tiny irritation in my lungs, but compared to what it felt like a week ago, it is about 90% improvement. It is hard to believe that if I do have lung cancer only two vitamin C treatments (and the herbs, etc. that I'm taking) would work so fast.
Cell by cell I am clearing my cancer!
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