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I’m very sorry to hear about your mother. You have my deepest sympathy.
I was with my mother when she passed away and with my 1st wife when she passed over and its most most moving and leaves an empty hole in
ones life. They are in a better place as you already know and they are be missed. I believe we will see them again when its our turn. In the mean time try to fill the hole and peace be with you.Sharpeilover, The reason I have a plastic (temporary) stent is because I am still going to have the PDT work done. The stent must come out for this procedure and be replaced. If it weren’t for that I would most likely have a permanent metal mesh stent. Until this week those were the only 2 I had known about but now kathyb has a new development it sounds like and I am very interested in a temporary metal mesh stent, wrapped in plastic. Gavin has posted an excellent site on stents and how they are used. I hope I’ve helped answer your question. I also think your mother is doing the right thing and am happy she’s doing so well. Let her know we all tire very easlily at times, it goes with the territory. But its a good time to thank God for another day and all we have. Wish you, your mother and all the rest of the cancer patients and their caregiver the very best. Bill
Thank you everyone for such a nice welcome, Its great that there is such and openness for discussion at this sight. I do take my time getting my thoughts on paper please bear with me. There are a couple of things I’d like to share that Kathy and Lalupes have asked me. Why I’m not doing chemo. It was presented as a way to buy time, a few months or so, nobody
knew. They did know it was’t a cure. Just as the PDT is not a cure.
We believe the body can not heal itself if its defenses are being killed off by chemo. Diet being the change we made to strengthen the immune system and cleanse the whole body of toxins and chemicals making it easier to fight the cancer. Another reason is my first wife and brother inlaw both died of cancer and both went through chemo therapy. Their quality of life was poor and I want a better quaitly of life and have one.
As for a partially blocked stent, it usually shows me its getting blocked in 3-4 ways before I have the billirubin checked. 1) urine turns darker, 2) stool turns lighter, 3) my right side just above the liver aches off and on and
4) I usually get an infection which is a tightness across my abdominal area.
Sometimes its just the infection symtom and they pull the stent and its full.
When its just and infection symtom I start taking cypro and have kept things from getting worse for up to 5 weeks. Everytime is different and there is no order to the symtoms. Just listen to your body, its talking to you.
I hope I answered your questions for you.
I have a question for Kathy. Can you give me any more information on the stent you spoke of ‘metal wrapped in plastic’ that lasts up to 6 months?
I sure would like to see if that would work for me.
Its been 16 months and the tumor has had very little growth and this weekend was my first fever since last October. I think we are making progress however slow. Thank you all for your support and sharing its been
great to see so many interested people. Who knows where this site could lead, maybe to a cure. Love you all, BillI am from the no sugar for cancer camp and have found by reading labels that sugar as an additive is in most everything. Its hard to cut out that kind of sugar but it can be done to whatever level you want if one is disciplined. Your Uncle has his needs and I can offer 2 things I use to sweeten my whatever. They are stevia and xylitol. Stevia in liquid form and I use only a few drops per cup. The xylitol is mostly for baking, in place of sugar. I wish you and your uncle the very best. Good Luck. Bill
