At last the day for my last chemotherapy session had arrived!
I forgot to give you guys some details about what would happen to my platelets every month. They would plummet.
Chemotherapy destroys all rapidly dividing cells, as you now know and it also uses up your bodies supply of red blood cells as well as the white cells too. What this does is cause your body to go into a dive...and if you take MORE chemo while your system is so low...you can die. Plain and simple.
So what the doctors do, is to give you 2 drugs that boost your white and red cells...Recormin for the red, and Neupogen for the white.
They would inject them either into my stomach or shoulder...right into the muscle...YEEEEOW!
At about 2 in d blinkin mornin' pain in meh bones! Yup, these boosters force the marrow in your bones to produce white cells.
This happened at least once a month. But what made it more troublesome for me was that I already had a BLOOD DISORDER that meant my blood count was always low...a "normal person's" platelet count would be about 175,000 to 250,000 and mine would USUALLY be about 54,000. As if it eh hard enough ent?
My count went to 22,000 one time and the nurses were goin bonkers....(people who have Dengue Hemorrhagic and whose count goes to 50,000 are immediately put on drips, or in some cases, given blood).
Well I had been as low at 18,000 when I was 12 one time and knew the ropes.....plenty protein, nuts, beets and I had to keep my tail quiet for a few days....
The nurses would always be worried, and as time went by and the doctors saw how I "managed" to walk the rope...they would just marvel.
nobody takes chemo with a platelet count of 44,000 WITHOUT BLOOD...and lives.What we did from early, was to build up my immune system as that is the first thing that cancer patients loose...their immunity. Our immune system is so compromised that you get sick just by people looking at you...or sneezing a mile away from you.
Not me, I never got the flu or virus from the day I started chemo....til now.
In Nov just before I started chemo I started taking i26...a Hyper Immune Egg supplement that a friend sold. It was expensive but it worked...then we found out about ESSIAC.
My mother in law sent us the info on it and sent us 10 bottles of it directly from Canada...it is ONLY made in Canada.
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I went on the maximum dosage of 8 tablets daily, along with Vit C, B12, Shark oil tablets, Genesis tonic and LOTS OF SOURSOP.
The soursop helped a lot with my stomach pain, and I also ate (when I could) lots of grapes, apples and bananas. As usual everybody was hailing SOURSOP as 10,000 times more potent than chemo...and this tonic and that herb, and if you peel this and boil that.
Folks....meanwhile natural remedies do have their place alongside traditional medicine....I can say that NATURAL REMEDIES ALONE CANNOT CURE YOU OF CANCER.
In my experience, you could eat a whole FARM of soursop...and still die of cancer...as well as get the best chemo treatment in the world, alongside Stem Cell treatments and be given the very best nutrition and doctors AND STILL DIE!
Cancer affects different persons differently and there are several variations and strains of each form of cancer. What may work well on one person may not work at all on another.
I can vouch for the ESSIAC though..it has kept my immune system high right through these 2 years.