Nice proverb

To get ready for upcoming chemotherapy, my alternative medicine doctor has suggested that I give up sugars. Her point is that sugars feed the cancer. Why would I want to give that snotty damien bastard something to help him grow?

Because this sounds very logical and makes loads of sense, I have given up sugar. Now, for many of you who know me well, you know that there is no one better at scavenging chocolate candy snacks in the afternoon at work. When I was in Cleveland, sometime after lunch, I would wander around the office, pilfer a Baby Ruth, a Hershey’s kiss, a Nestle’s Crunch, or other small sugary treat, chit chat with other consultants to learn what they were doing and then return to my office to graze for a few moments in the afternoon.

And, I had similar routines when I was in the Woodlands, and in Chicago. I’m sure folks would have to look far and wide to find someone who did a better job of snagging snacks than I. Ok, well, I fess up.

That was then; this is now. This is a way of giving you a bit of background. Years ago, I saw a poster on the wall of a church school room. The poster was bright yellow and showed several lemons nestled beside a pitcher of lemonade. The poster’s proverb read: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

Well, since I have had to give up sugars, and since we are currently painting the master bedroom of the ranch house, Patti suggested we choose “Moroccan brown” for one wall of the bedroom. I didn’t really have strong feelings either way, but after we bought Moroccan brown and applied it to the wall, it looked exactly like warm, rich chocolate … on the wall.

Ok, so maybe I can’t have chocolate any more, but I can sure sleep next to it each night. We’re making lemonade out of lemons.

Today, Patti, Casey and I were doing some painting at our sister-in-law’s ranch house in Murphy, Texas. I had to leave to go to the alternative doc’s office for some LED treatments.

Casey asked what the LED treatments were for. I told her that from what I had learned that all of our bodies have electrical currents within our bodies. The LED treatments involve sitting in front of special lights that attempt to disturb the electrical currents of bad cells, consequently destroying bad cells.

As I walked out of the house for my appointment, Casey said, ” Good luck, getting lit.”

When I returned a couple hours later, she added the insult to injury: “Gees, Dad, with these treatments the least thing they could do for you is give you a tan!”

From the mouths of babes.

One of the first steps that Patti and I did after learning my diagnosis was beat a path to Dallas. Her brother has had some wonderful success overcoming melanoma by participating in holistic/alternative medicine practices and therapeutics.

We met with his doctor and discussed my case. Her recommendation was to take some time to build up the strength of the body so it would be ready when that dastardly chemotherapy had to coarse the poison through my veins and arteries and take on those bad juju cancer cells.

Made sense to me. Logical, sensible. I’m in.

I’m currently taking 40-50 nutritients, supplements and enzymes a day. The doc said that as I begin to build up my body, I will notice toxins being released through the lymphatic system and that was a good thing, indeed.

After a few days of getting these supplements under my belt, my daughter was up for a visit. I explained to her about the facets of this treatment. She seemed to really pay attention to what I was saying until right in the middle of the discussion, I passed gas, smiled and said “another release of toxins. That’s a good thing.”