I've decided to do this general update to all of you as so many of you have asked for details of my treatment and the results.
I chose to go to the Klinik Marinus am Stein in Brannenburg, Germany, (look it up online: awesome place!) Their cancer therapy is gentle and adapted to the patient’s requirement for the best quality of life possible, by means of medical intervention in the growth mechanisms of the cancer cells without damaging any healthy cells.
I had chemotherapy three years ago so I know what is involved and in light of being informed that I can no Ionger be cured, then I wanted the least invasive treatment possible to enable me to have some quality of life during the time I have left. I started treatment at the clinic on 20th May 2016 and finished on 12th June.
During that time I had local hyperthermia in conjunction with the cancer restraining medicines, Artemisinin, Buserelin and Thymus Peptide alongside Mistletoe injections. I also had Selenium and Ozone blood drips along with Magnetic Field, Bio-mat and Oxygen Therapy. I was also taking lots of vitamins, minerals and probiotics daily. After all this I still had time each day to walk or ride my bike, to climb a mountain or swim in a waterfall. I wouldn't have been able to do that after chemo!
At the clinic they monitor the progress of your treatment through blood tests and look at two different tumour markers:
CEA (general cancer) down from 70 to 42
153 (breast cancer) down from 504 to 349
Amazing results but both should be below 40 so I've still got some way to go!
The clinic gave me lots of medication to take away with me. Mark said we needed a trailer behind the van just for my drugs! The Doctor there thinks our road trip is a great idea and says it’s just as important to 'love the life you live' as the treatment itself. I do have to get regular blood tests to keep an eye on things and may end up having to interrupt our travel plans to go back to the clinic for more treatment at any time.
Before leaving for Germany I also visited the Penny Brohn Cancer Centre in Bristol and was advised by their Oncologist to read the following books, both written by Doctors, which I found very inspirational:-
Radical Remission, surviving cancer against all odds by Kelly A Turner PhD and Anti cancer, a new way of life by David Servan-Schreiber.
I am telling everyone about these books and in light of the prediction that cancer is going to affect one in four of us, I urge you to read them. It's too late when you or someone you love is diagnosed because your 'head is a shed' and you just won't have the time to take it all in.
Since leaving the clinic we have travelled through Austria and Italy and we are currently in Caravigno, near Ostuni, Southern Italy doing a house-sit for six weeks in a converted olive store looking after eight dogs! We've got olive, almond, fig, apple, peach, pear, plum, quince and mulberry trees in the grounds and it's remote and rustic and fab!
This is only day 45 of our year out and we have already seen some awesome places and met some amazing people who I know will be part of the rest of our lives. I don't know if this treatment will succeed over the cancer or not but I'm going to continue to give it my all. Either way, I will never regret this decision because I'd much rather be swimming in the ocean, or sleeping under the stars, climbing a waterfall or mountain or swinging in a hammock under the olive trees than hooked up to a drip in a hospital on chemotherapy feeling too poorly to enjoy my life.
I hope all is well with you and yours, be happy and see the beauty in every day.
Jayne
Lovely blog hope you have an amazing time Jayne . You ladies are such an inspiration to everyone x
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