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Good News and Yet...

I'm back from Atlanta with good news.

The EDS (Electro Dermal Screening) now shows me completely free of cancer. There is a possibility of a developing cancer in the esophagus that we should be able to nip in the bud with MonaVie and an herbal formula customized for me.

I once again thank the Lord for leading me to this area of treatment. According to the medical doctors, I should be dead or at least close to it by now. But God has other plans for me.

I am grateful to all of you who prayed for me and especially to those who contributed financially to defray some of the expense.

My next step is to go back to the medical doctors to get a confirmation that the cancer has gone. I'm doing this mainly for the skeptics who doubt that this route is any more than just voodoo, smoke and mirrors or that I have been taken in by snake oil salesmen. I personally can feel the difference in my body without the confirmation.

If you still need a reason to pray for me, try this. This is the third day in a row without sunshine and I am not feeling like celebrating the way I should. I am fighting the depression, but I need God to intervene.

I will post again soon.

The Meaning of Life

Many have asked for an update on my status.

This being a blog, I guess I should have been adding to this on a regular basis, however, I have gotten into a mind set that if I didn't have anything compelling to write then it wouldn't be worth reading. Perhaps I am wrong.

There has really been no change in status since the last update. I have been tested since then and there are much fewer parasites and toxins in my body, but the cancer is still hanging around in my appendix area. I guess the good news is that it hasn't grown.

I am going to be tested again this weekend and will post the results when I return.

While my relationship with God continues to be good, I sometimes find myself doubting the reason for my existence. I see what is happening to the United States since the socialists have taken control of the leadership and wonder how long before our freedoms are completely taken away. I do not have a desire to live in a socialist society. These thoughts usually come to me when the weather turns nasty and there is no sunshine for days. Those days are mundane and get me to wondering why God didn't take me home when he had the chance.

When the sun returns and my spirit perks up, I realize that God doesn't need a good 'chance'. If he wants to he could take me anytime, therefore, it must mean that he doesn't want to. I suppose this should be enough to rejoice over, but I would rather go on to heaven than 'just exist' on earth.

A life here on earth should have meaning and I believe my meaning comes from serving God and in helping others who are going through what I have been through. That doesn't necessarily mean cancer, but it might.

Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go". Joshua 1:9

Next update on Sunday after my next testing.

"Stored" Emotions

Every disease has an emotional component.

When I mentioned this in my previous post, many thought I intended to share the emotions of what I've been going through, but that is not what I was referring to.

When I was first tested, using Electro Dermal Screening (EDS), some of the things detected in my body were certain unresolved negative emotions.

This was a new concept for me and sounded a bit strange to me. I was, however, intrigued with the idea and began to do a bit of research to find out what that was all about. I found that when we do not deal with our emotions in a positive way, they get stored in the body and can actually cause us harm and can eventually result in physical disease.

One of the questions in my mind was "How can emotions turn into physical disease?"

I discovered that our brains and the cells of our body communicate with each other. This was actually something I had heard (or read) before, but I had never associated it with emotions.

You see, emotions cause certain reactions in our bodies. For instance strong fear causes the brain to send a signal to the body to defend itself or run away. Adrenaline is then released in the body.

Adrenaline is a powerful hormone that focuses the brain, sharpens eyesight, and contracts muscles to either fight or run. It increase the heart rate and blood pressure while stopping blood flow to some parts of the body (like the digestive system) and sends the flow to the muscles to prepare the body for it's response. The body doesn't know the reason for the need of extra hormones and doesn't care. It just perceives that there is danger or difficulty and responds quickly.

If this happens for a short period of time, a little burst of adrenaline does more good than harm to the body. However, prolonged bursts of adrenaline can be very harmful.

When long term stress is involved it keeps the hormones pumping on a nearly constant basis. Unresolved anger toward a spouse or an abusive boss can cause a steady flow of adrenaline and cortisol into the bloodstream. The heart rate speeds up and the blood vessels constrict causing high blood pressure and after a while, that becomes the norm.

Over time elevated levels of adrenaline can cause blood to clot faster (causing plaguing in the arteries), the thyroid becomes overly stimulated, triglycerides and blood sugar levels are elevated and the body produces more cholesterol. These are dangers we are all familiar with, however, we never made the connection with unresolved emotions.

Along with adrenaline, another hormone called cortisol is released into the system at the same time and, once again, when it continues to be released long term can cause problems. It has been shown to impair the immune system, increase bone loss, increase fat accumulation, impair memory and destroy brain cells. The impaired immune system is extremely dangerous.

I could go on and on about all problems this causes, but suffice it to say that medical research is showing more and more a connection between emotions and most diseases, not just a few.

So how does this relate to my cancer?

Most people don't realize that cancer cells are common in all people. A healthy immune system will destroy these dangerous cells. But when prolonged reaction to emotions overloads and corrupts the immune system to the point that it cannot do its job efficiently, these cells may escape and do damage. This not only applies to cancer, but to other diseases as well.

Remember the verse in the book of Ephesians that states "...Don't let the sun go down upon your wrath (or anger)"? Kinda brings it home when you know about the damage that can be done if you don't resolve it to the point that the it is not left to be dealt with later.

So how do we deal with it now?

How do we get rid of the emotions that we didn't resolve and are now causing damage to our bodies?

Dr. Don Colbert gives some insight in his book "Deadly Emotions".

He states that all deadly emotions, come from our attitudes. He says, "You can choose to a very great extent how you deal with grief, resentment, bitterness, shame, jealously, guilt, fear, worry, depression, anger, hostility, rage and all other emotional situations that readily trigger physical responses. Own up to the attitudes and beliefs that you have." Take it to God and repent of the attitudes that dictated the wrong choices you made in regard to emotions that you naturally felt when done an injustice or a perceived wrong.

A big part of dealing with a lot of these emotions is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not for the person being forgiven, but for the forgiver.

Real sincere forgiveness produces real sincere healing even if you are in need of forgiving yourself.

The book "Forgive and Move On" by Ken Sumrall deals with this subject, with letters from real people dealing with actual situations in their lives and how forgiveness played a huge part in dealing with hurts and injustices done to them. This book, I believe, can produce new attitudes in the reader.

Dealing with the Spiritual aspect of these stored emotions is only one aspect of healing. Doing this is essential and will develop attitudes that will keep them from returning.

There is, however, another step that is very important in undoing the damage that has already been done.

I mentioned early on that some of these emotions showed up in my EDS tests. That brings up another of the nagging questions in my mind... How can emotions be detected?

I have always considered emotions to be abstract and not physical. The research that I have since learned of shows that these emotions, just like everything else in our bodies, have an electrical energy and are detected through the individual frequencies they produce.

Since they have a frequency, not only can they be detected, they can be dealt with in the same way as other toxins with frequencies are handled.

I have mentioned in earlier posts that toxins, parasites, heavy metals and toxic chemicals that we have inadvertently allowed into our bodies can be dealt with by using homeopathic remedies and formulas that are derived from herbs and other plants and/or berries that have frequencies that kill or drive them out. The same is true with the negative emotions that get stored in our bodies.

An analogy came to me the other night that this can be thought of in musical terms.

Musical instruments produce vibrations that we recognize as sounds. These vibrations oscillate and create a unique frequency for each note on the musical scale and corresponding octaves. When these frequencies are used together simultaneously, we either get a sound that is pleasant or unpleasant. The pleasant sounds are pleasant because these frequencies are in harmony with one another and fit together in what we call chords. However, some frequencies do not fit with one another and are 'discordant'. These discordant frequencies kill a musical score and render it unusable except in an attempt to drive off anyone within hearing distance.

The frequencies in our bodies are not within our hearing range, however, just like the wind, they still exist and have vibrations that interact with harmony or discord toward each other.

Toxins, parasites, etc... have frequencies that, when introduced into the body, interrupt the flow of electrical resonance that keeps our bodies in balance. When our bodies are in balance, healing can occur, but when it is interrupted, eventually disease takes control.

Sound technicians for rock bands in the seventies and eighties use to (and maybe still do) experiment with frequencies on crowds at concerts, waiting for the performances to begin. Using a frequency generator, they would send these frequencies out through the sound system that, while beyond the range of human hearing, would resonate with the human body in such a way as to work the crowd into a frenzy to prepare them for the concert. You see, there are frequencies that resonate with our bodies that cause our bodies to perceive pleasure, danger, etc... and release corresponding chemicals into the bloodstream to get us excited or alert or relaxed and a myriad of other responses. There are frequencies that can cause nausea or cause the body to release the bowels without warning. The bottom line is that our bodies respond powerfully to electrical stimuli in the form of frequencies.

This analogy is not completely accurate, because positive and negative polarities are also involved that can cancel each other out.

Beyond this explanation we start to get into quantum physics and I am out of my league to continue, but hopefully, you are beginning to understand the logic and science behind what I have said.

In future posts I will deal with more detail about 'clean vs unclean" foods.

Treatment and Results

There are those who say and actually have testimonials of people who have been cured of cancer through diet. To do this they must stop eating foods that have had the nutritional value robbed from them by being 'processed'. These are foods that carry parasites and include heavy metals from chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers or meat that has human growth hormones and antibacterials added.

The other white meat (pork) has a plethera of parasites. Researchers at Florida State University, a number of years ago, placed pork under 7000 degrees (f) of heat. When placed under a microscope afterward, they found parasites still living in the meat. Also, pigs secrete their wastes through pores in their feet, but when these pores get clogged up (mud), the wastes back up into the meat. It's no wonder that God referred to pork as unclean. Bacon anyone?

Cancer has been described to me as being made up of parasites, heavy metals and bacteria banded together in the body. Modern medicine would refer to these as "malignant neoplasms".

I don't doubt some folks have been healed using diet, but to me it seems logical that you can't get rid of bad things in your body simply by not putting more bad stuff into it. So, while I believe an organic diet is a great preventive of disease, I believe there must be some way to get these negative invaders out of our bodies in order to heal. Then we can use diet to maintain.

Research has determined that each of these organisms has its own energy and frequency and can be identified using EDS. Once each has been identified, a treatment can be recommended to get it out or kill it.

Here are the things that have been recommended for me and how that is working for me.

In my case, we need to break up the parasites and heavy metals that are involved in the cancer makeup.

Cancer also thrives when the body is acidic. Therefore, I must drink and eat food that will bring my PH level to 7.2. This is the alkaline balance the body needs to fight disease.

For removing heavy metals I was prescribed Himalayan salt on a daily basis. Apparently the geometric shape of this crystallized salt matches the salt in our bodies and attaches itself to the metals and brings them out in the bodily wastes.

A juice made from the Acadia (pronounced "Ah-sigh-ah") berry tested extremely high on the EDS equipment for killing all parasites and came highly recommended. The name of this juice is Mona Vie.

A myriad of homeopathic formulas designed to destroy each individual organism was also prescribed for some of the other things detected in my body.

After an aggressive regimen of this treatment I was re-tested and cancer was no longer detected in my liver or in my bladder. There is still a small amount detected in my appendix area. It is thought that another round of formula and Mona Vie should take care of that.

Because I had to pursue this in such an aggressive manner, it was rather expensive. Many people would use expense as an excuse to not eat correctly or to not take the treatments, but the alternative (death) seemed more expensive to me. I could have taken the mainstream medical methods of chemo, pain meds and radiation and insurance would have paid for it, but I believe I would have been the one who paid for it in the end.

It is now beneficial to my body to use an organic diet to prevent more disease from overtaking me.

A young girl by the name of Bethany Hamilton was bitten by a shark while surfing and lost her left arm. I'm told that when she was taken to the emergency room, she commented to her mother, "I wonder how God is going to use this." This not only was a great attitude, but showed a great trust that God was still in control of her life.

I don't know how this will end for me, but I do know that I have done and continue to do what I believe God wants me to do. The rest is in his hands.

I believe that by relating my story, I can help other people who have cancer and not only those but also people who have other diseases that can be cured using these methods.

Every disease has an emotional component. I'll speak to this in the next post.

Roots and Grass?

As I mentioned earlier, organic eating seemed to me like a diet of roots and grass. It didn't help that the first thing I was given, other than reading material, was a detox tea that tasted like water left over from boiling roots. So I resolved that if I was going to change things, I'd have to train my taste buds accordingly and I wasn't looking forward to it. You might guess that my appetite suffered. I just wasn't excited about putting that stuff in my mouth.

As my education continued, Diane showed my sister and me just what organic food was all about. It turns out that my preconceived notion about the taste was wrong. The foods we brought home from the food store were just as tasty as anything I had eaten before and as a result, my appetite improved dramatically.

There are certain things that I absolutely have to avoid.

No fried foods, no red meat and no sugar.

Cancer thrives on sugar and I certainly didn't want that. This didn't mean that I just avoided adding sugar to my beverages or cereal. If you check the ingredients on labels you'll find that almost every food available has sugar added to it. I cannot even use sugar substitutes, with the exception of stevia, because of the carcinogenic nature of the things they use either directly in or in the making 'process' of the products. Fruits and vegetables that are not grown organically have chemicals and pesticides that have permeated the food and when eaten, actually poison the human body. I could go on and on about what has been allowed to be sold to the American public in the name of progress and the almighty dollar. I'll not do that right now, but if you get a chance to see a documentary titled "Food Inc." do it. It'll explain a lot.

Red meats are out because they are hard on the digestive system. Once the cancer has receded I can then allow myself a steak on occasion.

After I had been at this for a few weeks, I got a call from a friend of mine in Birmingham, Al. He told me about something called Electro Dermal Screening (EDS). He felt like it was a God thing that he found out about my cancer just as he got connected with the EDS people. He said they could use their equipment to find out what I had, where it was located and what to do about it. They had testimonials from people who had been cured from cancer and other diseases. It sounded a bit like hocus pocus to me, but I felt like it was worth checking out, so my sister Beth, Diane and I took a trip to Birmingham to check it out. I took Diane along because she knows a lot more about alternative medicine than I do and by now was an advisor that I trusted whole-heatedly.

Let me explain what EDS is.
It was first developed in Germany about 50 years ago. It is based on Chinese accupuncture in that it uses the body's energy patterns to diagnose a patient's organ dysfunctions even before the physical symptoms manifest themselves. It seems that each organ of the body has it's own frequency and can be measured in resistance. As a matter of fact, the orignal equipment used an ohm meter to measure the resistance. Over the years it has become computerized and more accurate as they have learned the frequencies, not only for each part of the body, but also for the parasites, toxins and metals that enter our bodies. They test each area of the body and look for any interruption of the measurable resistance for each area. If they find an interruption, they can then identify pathogens and toxins that are making the patient sick and ascertain what medicines, supplements and other remedies are helpful (or harmful) to the patient. It does all this quickly, inexpensively and non-invasively.

There is still considerable resistance to EDS in mainstream medicine in the United States because it is based on principles of quantum physics and traditions of energy medicine, which is not understood or taught in medical schools in the United States.

Let me say that after I was tested that first time, and I saw them locate the cancer in my body and tell me of other things that I had going on, now and in the past... I climbed aboard. I might add that Diane was also convinced that this was for real.

To be honest, I don't understand quantum physics myself, but I can attest to what EDS can do for a person with cancer. I will expound on this in a later post.

Decision Time

It is common knowledge that if you get cancer the only way to cure it is with chemotherapy and radiation. This is what we are taught by the medical society here in America. But I was told that, because my cancer is in stage 4, the final stage, even these methods would not cure it in me. All I could hope for was to prolong my life for about 2 years.

My family was very supportive during my stay in the hospital. They made sure that one of them was there 24 hours a day to make sure my needs were met. My sisters and brother, my brother-in-law and my daughters all took turns staying in my hospital room with me. Even my best friend, Diane, took a few turns to relieve my family when it was a struggle for them to stay.

I had always looked at Diane as something of a health nut because she was something of an expert about homeopathy remedies, which I knew little about. She had actually sent me to a man, named Jim Hill, about two years previously who used "iridology" to find out what was wrong with folks. He actually identified what turned out to be my cancer and if I had paid attention we could have caught the cancer in the very early stages. However, I just shrugged it off as someone trying to sell health food supplements and besides all he said was that it was a 'hot spot'. That didn't mean anything to me then and when Diane asked me what he found, I didn't find it important enough to even tell her about it. I just told her about the allergies he found. I regret now that I did not say anything to her about it because, knowing her, she would have bugged me about it 'til I did something.

So now... Diane now began in earnest to indoctrinate me in the ways of alternative medicine. She brought me food that she cooked from organic ingredients and brought me books to read. One book that she brought me was written by a woman who had battled cancer entitled "A Cancer Battle Plan" by Anne E. Frahm. I read this book with a hunger in me to find out how I could be cancer free again. She told of having had chemo therapy and radiation and even a bone marrow transplant. She told of how it made her so sick and robbed her of her energy until, because of the research she was doing, she began to connect the relationship between cancer and nutrition. I was intrigued, but the idea of eating stuff that tasted like roots and grass was not very appealing to me. Roots and grass was the idea I had in my head that organic food tasted like. I have found since then that the word 'organic' is not a mystical word, it simply means that the food was not grown with chemicals and pesticides and laced with human growth hormones and preservitives that gives the food a longer shelf life, but robs our food of its nutritional value. Organic foods can be as tasty as what I have been use to. However, I can tell you, you won't find it in a store with golden arches.

After I left the hospital I realized that I had lost about 80 pounds and my muscles had atrophied to the point that I found it hard to even walk. My sisters became my care givers, although a home health care nurse would come to the house 3 times a week to check on me. I moved into my sister Beth's house with her and my nephew Brandon. Little by little I began to gain strength... at least enough to walk with a cane, but I remained unable to drive myself for a long time yet.

I was still wrestling with the decision about chemo vs homeopathy when I had the opportunity to talk with my uncle Jack, who had been through chemo and radiation. After talking with him about what he went through I asked him if he had it to do over again would he choose the chemo. His response was an adamant 'NO'. That confirmed to me that my leaning toward the homeopathy was the correct one. If I was going to die, it wasn't going to be from being sick because the chemo killed all the good cells along with the bad ones, thus killing my immune system. However, if this was the road I was going to choose, it could not be a half-hearted effort. I had to follow the rules and that meant I had to get Diane to help me know what all those rules were. She was more than happy to help me and I began to get an education from her.

I knelt down and spoke to God, because I knew I wouldn't make it without his help, and told him that I was willing to fight this battle and trusted him to be there to take me though the fire.

What follows are the steps I took to fight this battle.