Thursday, September 24, 2015

Recovery Thoughts

i feel like i am still playing catch up.  tho each day is a little better, i feel like i cant get enough sleep.  it is still a bit uncomfortable trying to find a position to sleep in, and when i roll over to my favorite position (laying on right side) by incisions protest and wake me up reminding me that is not the happy place.  but that  is also getting a bit easier.

i look at my scars that are not as bad as i feared, i put cannabis coconut oil on and that helps alot with the pain and soreness  in my breast.  have to take some extra strength tylenol now and then and for awhile  was still taking one and a half pain pill at bed time to take the edge off but last night i did not need it, so i am getting better.

tomorrow is back to surgeon for post check up, but i cancelled the radiation and oncologist guys.  just dont want to do it.  dont want the radiation or the drugs---gonna finish this by myself.  i dont get a good feeling about the radiation or drugs so, going to follow my gut instinct.  already got a call back asking why????  lol.  cause id di some research and found that the standard treatments are not as safe as presented, it is just the standard treatment and who are YOU to question !



i wish everyone well who is undergoing such treatments, but i am not comfortable about it.  so i politely decline, thank you.  just gonna check to make sure my incisions are healing properly--and they look to be so---after that i will take a different path to healing my body.

i have been examining all my actions and decisions and what i have been thru in this breast cancer thingy-----i had decided to go ahead with the surgery thinking it was a smart thing to do.  but now i am not so sure  after 3 weeks of taking cannabis, the 3rd week at the higher cancer killing dose, the tumor DID shrink from 11mm to 8mm.  that is a great sign.  so i have decided that if this thing happens again i will not do the surgery.  im not going thru all that again, as nice as the surgeon was, and i thought she was great, i am not repeating this adventure.  i will treat with the high does of cannabis and take my chances.  after all, even with chemo and radiation, you are still taking your chances and hoping for the best.

well--time for my walk--got to keep the knees moving so i dont get stove up.

God bless you all.  hang in there.
get food


Friday, September 18, 2015

Best News - repeat

the best news i got is that my pathology report came back negative.  no cancer cells in lymph nodes, im clear.

the tuor shrunk from 11 to 8mm in the 3 weeks from diagnosis to surgery.  they say they dont know why--but i was taking upper dose of cannabis paste to help fight the cancer.  tumors dont shrink on their own............

so that tells me it was working and if i had been avle to take the full 90 day cannabis cancer treatment i believe it would have been even better.

so instead of having to cut out a chunk the size of a fist they only had to cut an amount the size of a walnut.  less scars--less tissue destruction.

i am probably repeating myself, and if so, i apologize.  i am still thrilled about the good report.  thanks to the good Lord for prayers answered.

they want me to take 3 weeks of radiation which they say will reduce possibility of cancer returning to 20%, without it it would be 30%.

im taking the cannabis it is far safer than the radiation.  for me, in my opinion.....no question.

Fatigue

i have been trying to catch up on sleep.  it is not easy finding a comfortable position considering i usually sleep on myright side and muy right breast is definitly not happy with all the stitches.  so i flip and flop around trying to get something close to my sleep position.  whihc is mostly on my right side and on my stomach.

every time i half alseep roll into that posstion it is like YOW CRAP and i quickly roll to a different postion.

so i dont feel like i get alot of sleep lately, but it is getting better.  then there are the disaaster pups---my 2 6month old aussie pups that turn every place they go into a disaster uless you have a tight hand on them.  lately, as you can imagine, i have not had a tight hand on anything.

the pups sleep until around 5am and want to go out and pee and then play Destructo End Of The World.  i have a doggie door that they are very good at using so the problem is they get tired of destrpying everything outside so they come back insode the doggie door and decide to plag tag team wrestling or something similar in the hallway, living room, kitchen and charge from room to room leaping over tables and chairs.  they run in and out and bring in sticks and rocks and logs and whole trees--well--not really whole trees but i bet if they put their mind to it they could.  they sure bring in everything esle like gophers they catch, birds, and what all.

so they wake me up around 5;30am and i get up, , trick them into going outside by tossing a couple doggy cookies on the deck then i close and lock the wood door behind them so i can go back to sleep for a bit longer.  im mean.

so when i get up they are having their morning nap sleeping so sweetly on the chairs on the deck and i have this twisted desire to wake them up and make them play and run around.

then i try to take a na after lunch if i can, sometimes it is just sitting quiet and listening to a book, but i am often really ready for some kind of sleep, so i have to lock the destruct-o dogs outside again for a little while.  oh dont worry about them, they have lots of food and water, a dog house, a shady cool spot under the porch and even a kiddie pool (2 inches of water) to knock each other into.  that seems to be a game of theirs, they try to body slam each other into the pool.  they dont like being squirted wqith a hose but they dont mind being in the rain at all and usually run and play in the mud and puddles with ecstatic joy.

i am tired.

Monday, September 14, 2015

Scars

i got a good look at my scars today.
not as bad as i feared, i can live with them.

got as decent nights sleep, it has been hard finding a position  comfortable for sleep, i keep trying to adjust myself cause i cant sleep on my stomach or right side, but last night, i got some decent sleep.

i stopped the pain pills on day 3 and replaced them with 2 cannabis paste capsules every 4-5 hrs. more or less and that has worked very well--works as good as the hydroco something they gave me without making me stupified.  well, if i took 3 cannabis pills it would have put me to sleep, but i felt like 2 was enough to counter the pain.

so this morning if got a good hot shower ad then took off the bandages.  i have a long cut top right of my breast near my arm and one the length of my nipple.  the surgeon definitely did NOT take out as much tissue around the tumor as she said she needed to, the size of a lemon or fist.     inb post p the nurse said the surgeon took out the size of a walnut so my guestimate is that the cannabis past helped it to shrink.  but i will check tht out when i see her again on the 25th.  why take out less if the tumor was the same size as the beginning when she told me she had to cut out a ection the size of her fist?

anyway--all i need to know is what about my lymphs?  did the cancer spread there?  once i find that out i will feel better.

thanks to all who have been praying and wishing me good things, i surely appreciate it.  God has me in his hands ....

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

i survived

well, i survived my breast surgery.  it was not fun.  in fact it was so un-fun that it was terrible, but it is over and i am home.  got home later on the 10th, took a pain pill ad crawled into my own bed with my own pillows and gave thanks to God for getting me there and carrying me through the whole ordeal. 

first theng they inserted a metal tube thing in my brest about on top of the tumor in order to insert a wire to mark the site for the surgeon.  that hurt but i got thru it.  then they got the bright idea to insert a needle into my nipple and inject radiaoactive particles into my lyph system to see where it traveled and to help surgeon to find lymph nodes to tke them out.

THAT freaking HURT like crap.  i hollared and told the dr to stop but he ignored me.  im sure he has heard it all from all the ladies he has stabbed.  he was very calm throughout and i guess that it was good someone was.  but that freaking hurt going in and burned and i cried and cried and held on to a nice nurse who wrapped her arms around me and let me cry and cried with me.

then they had to take pictures of me with the breast stabbed with this fricken long wre thta stuck up, had to prop the breast up here, turn there tht was not fun but i got thru it.  then i had to wait and hour and go to radiation where they did some gamma pictures i guess the are called.  then off to pre-op and sit for awhile  found out they could take me earlier than 1230 and i was all for that casue i was sick and tired of it all and hurting nad wanted to get the heck out of there.

surgery then post op.

how are you feeling?

like crap.  i hurt.

how much do you hurt?  rate it 1-10

im an 8.  ive given birth naturally and i call that a 10, right now i am at least an 8.  i need something.

they put something in my iv and later asked how i was.

o, i am a 7.  i stil need something.  get me to a 5 and i can deal with it as i live with a 3-4 daily pain level. 

they ave me a couple different things and i rested and snoozed for about an hour then tarted to wake up and feel a bit stronger and said i wanted to go home.  that was all i cold think about--getting home.

if i got home id be safe.
if i got home i could deal with my pain better
if i got home i could really rest.
if i got home they could not poke or jab me anymore.

here is the deal----
prior to surgery i was told they hd to remve a chunk the size of a lemon to get tumor nd surrounding area for clean margins.

they found they actually only had to take a section the size of a walnut.
THAT is a big difference.  i am convinced it had shruk down from the cannabis paste / oil and tuff i had been taking,
they did not say so,  they did not want to talk aobut alternative treatments or that i was taking some cannabis.  they did not mention the tumor had shrunk---BUT they found they only had to take a smaller part.

id say that was progress.  a step in the right direction.
today o stopped the pain pills and went back on the cannabis caps.
2 of them seem to do as good as one pain pill without feeling groggy.  so today i put the pain pills away and will just do the cannabis.  i am doing better and even had a good nap today.

i had big bandages and a stretchy tube top sot of thing with a velcro front.  i slipped in my medical magnet pads and that YES does hep reduce the pain a good bit.


had a nice dinner and a glass of wine, gonna take some cannabis pills and go to bed for a better nights rest.

i cab not Prove the cannabis paste shrunk the tumor.  all i know is that come surgery time they found it was smaller than 3 weeks ago when i was diagnosed and mammogram and sonograms taken.

i wonder if i had a few more weeks would it have shrunk completely ?  i do not know.

my breast is sore and under my arm where they cut out some lymphs nodes but i am better today and tomorrow i will be even better.

my throat was a bit irritated but i guess that was from the tube they inserted.  i felt some uncomfortable tightness there and took some sips of the Spaz-ez i make for cramps and spasms and that too care of it just fine.

the very odd this is that my stomach muscles feels like i have done 100 sit ups. and i dont get that--how the heck did THIS feeling come from???

but i am home.  i go back for post op on sept 25 and they will wnt to set a radiation schedule.  i doubt i will do that part.  really---i have had Enough of this stuff...................

many thanks and blessings for all those who have prayed for me and kept me in their thoughts and sent good wishes.  YES it made a difference.  thank you.

tomorrow i get to take the bandages off to see what all i got left in the boob department.  i will let you know......

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

getting ready for surgery

as i get closer each day to my surgery i find it is necessary for me to remember why i need it.  see, i have no pain where the tumor is, i cant even feel it really except where it is tender where they did the biopsy.  i dont feel sick.  but i got to go tot he hospital and let the do al sort of other tests and then surgery.

i dont like hospitals.

i sure dont like the idea of some stranger cutting on me.

maybe i am being a crybaby, but i dont like the idea and i get little moments of panic.  so i try to calm myself by first pray9ing, asking God to get rid of the fear and to tell myself over and ver--
i have breast cancer.  i got to get it out.  they are going to cut it out for me.

so that is what i do over and over.  kinda silly i know but it helps..  on sep 25th i have to go back for post op and see the oncologist 
and a radiation person about radiation  treatment.  i am debating.

but who knows what wil happen.  as much as i dont like the ideas of this surgery, inside i feel it is necessary, that i have to do this.  it is a certan feeling so perhaps it is God letting me know  it is the right thing to do.  i do not have the feeling about radiation, tho.  whihc is why i am holding back.

i am up to about 8 grams of the cannabis paste--that is 8 capsules with about one gram each.  i am working up to 9.

if i eat a good meal and then take the 3 caps i have no real afects, but if i forget to eat or only eat a little and take the caps, i am incredibly tired and want to go to bed.  2 caps dont seem to bother me, the 3 i need to be careful about

after breakfast i take 3, then during the day i will take another 2 then bedtime i take 3.  i hve found if i take 3 during mid dya i am draggy and want to go lay down.

been getting up to 20 apricot kernals twice a dya.  sometimes i forget but i am usually pretty close.

i have forgotten the lypsomal vit C.  well, it is probably latent as i hate the tste and smell..grape juice covers it the best but stil, its gg potency is strong.  i was to be up to 9T a day.  hard to belive tht it gets too difficult to take only 9T but it gags me.  ugh, smells ike rotten wet cardboard.  ick.

essiac tea--crap, i feel off that wagon too but still working on it.

the pathology report will tell me if it has spread to my lymphs, that i am hoping has not happened and i am hoping when i get the sonogram before the surgery (they have to insert some wire thing) that the tumor has shrunk some----.

only time will tell, eh

well, i guess i will be back after the surgery and let you know how it is all going.

take care and God bless


Wednesday, September 2, 2015

More Cancer Crap

there is a stunning amount of info about cancer--all types of cancers and all types of treatments.  and there is a stunning amount of people caught up in this monster.  and i am seeing that the monster cancer industry is a monster of its own.

i have a count down to my surgery and i have been trying to educate myself as much as posible as what is going to happen.  i am not liking any of this--lol.

i will hve a conference call on the 8th to tell me what to do and not do before the surgery.  got to leave on the 9th to go to colorado springs to check in to the guest house to be ready at the butt craqck of dawn for tests before surgery on the 10th.

i have been working lining up people to come stay at my place to take care of the dogs, chickens, gardens and when i am back to come hep me pick and can cause i figure i wont be up for much of it and this surgery is smack dab in the  midst of canning season and harvest time..

i got a schedule on what they are gonna do to me before surgery, tests, biopsy's needle things, specimen things, injections--WTF---they better not expect me to stay awake and be all friendly if they are gonna do scary crap things to me.  but i know i will be expected to be a good and well behaved patient while they push and stick and shove and cut--keep my mouth shut, dont make wves----

oh well----i aint promising anything.

and now i found out about this thing called lymphedema you can get after this surgery stuff swelling and nasty stuff uner the arm and with the arm--oh my gosh that doesnt sound good.  sigh-----

well, i had to make another  batch of cannabis oil paste capsules.  i think i got the hand of it, it is a bit messy but i can make 24 in about 15 min i think.  i have been loading up so i have all i need for a whole month after surgery.

i got a case packed up, dragged out a small cooler to load up some stuff as i will be there 2 days.  just going thru things and trying to get physically ready.  i hope i am mentally ready come time.

so i am still taking the cannabis pate/oil--up to 8-9gms a day.  i know the oil is super concentrated and you work up to one gram a day for 60 days  the paste is a little different, and i have worked up to 8-9grams.  now, i know--the traditional idea of the pase is to take 2.5 grams--but because i have not found as many reports on dosage as all the work done on the oil, i am going by what makes sense to me.  if i space out 2 caps 4 times a day i dont get any funky feelings.   ues, you relly CAN take this and not get stoned.  so if you have been interested in cannabis as cancer treatments, but have ben concerned about the high feeling pot smokers are after, dont worry  you start off with very small amont and slowly build up until you can handle the full dose and function s usual.

on days when i upped my dosage i got really sleepy and just went to bed feeling fine when i woke up

anyway--i am still plugging along, still learning, researching and trying things

i hope you are too.