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Dear Quan Yin, thank you for your reply.
I’m sorry to hear that your mom is going through what so many of our loves ones have or are experiencing. It is beautiful of you to drive that far to get the right chinese herbs for your mom. I’m sure she feels your love! (I have a lot of respect for chinese medicine)
Quan Yin, I’m not a doctor, but if you think your mom has jaundice, I wouldn’t hesitate to bring her to the hospital. There are many symptoms that we can try to or help alleviate at home. But I believe jaundice is more serious, don’t mean to alarm you, but it’s my feeling. Perhaps other members of this forum can advise you better.
My mom fist signs of cc started when she had her gallbladder removed and they found a tumor in the bile ducts. The first tests showed up as negative, however she had a temporary stent put in. A month later the stent moved causing her jaundice. She was then hospitalized and after one month of several biopsies and tests she was diagnosed with cc.
Good luck to you and your mom. I will pray for your moms recuperation.
warmly,
Lina
Violarob,
Congratulations!! A wonderful story, thank you for sharing it!!!! I wish you a long cancer free life!!
The coffee enemas have been extremely helpful to my mom as well…
Best to you,
L
As an added note to the ginger for nausea, I have read that while ginger is an excellent anti-nausea it can also “inhibit blood-clotting and in rare instances trigger gastrointestinal bleeding. If you are undergoing chemotherapy and your platelet levels are below sixty thousand (the number that indicates compromised clotting ability).” -From Margie Levine’s book “Surviving Cancer”
I have gotten some crystalized ginger for my mom to chew on, I just try not to give her too much.
Another thing that we tried that helped a lot for nausea is frozen grapes and frozen bananas on a stick.
Thank you everyone for all of your encouragement!
Rank- I am in New York, but I will keep your suggestion in mind, thank you so much…
devoncat- thank you for letting me see my mother’s language barrier from a more positive perspective, I think you are right. It has in way helped her not too read so many scary things about this illness.
Joyce,
Colombia is a wonderful place with wonderful people, you should definitely visit one day… you’re very welcome if you decide to go when my family and I are there…
Thanks again for all your support and good wishes, I will keep you all posted on our progress…
blessings,
Lina
Thank you Lainy for the suggestions. It’s great to hear people’s success stories, I will definitely look into this therapy. Many, many thanks!
dear Joyce,
Thank you for taking the time to answer my post with such thoroughness…
I really appreciate sharing more of your mom’s situation and complications that she went through, it definitely helps me put things into perspective, it is wonderful that you can put such a painful experience into a positive one by advising people like me.Luckily my mother has a good attitude in general about the whole thing. She has many brothers and sisters plus friends who have been extremely supportive and positive. But they are mostly down in South America (Colombia) where my mother is from and spends a lot of her time. They also have been very supportive to me, they all have so much faith and positivism despite the meaning of this terrible illness. It really blows me away to see there lack of hesitation when saying that she is going to be cured. All of this has been very touching to us.
But when getting down to practical manners, I’m the one doing all the research (my mother’s main language is spanish and her english is limited) and leading the way in terms of the care and treatments that should benefit her, . She and I are very close and think a lot a like. she is also very smart and conscientious about doing what is good for her, so she is already avoiding sugars, taking supplements and eating all organic, etc… In other words, she is cooperating and willing to do all what it takes to be healthy, including going through chemo. However, she does not want pain. She has gone through so much in the last couple of months that she is still trying to recuperate from all of it. She is still on morphine to control the pain from the surgery she had about two weeks ago. I just hopes she gets strong and pain free soon, she was always so healthy and strong that it is very hard to see her like this, although she is recuperating pretty well… -sorry if I’m babling….
I think you are right about going for the best doctor that I can get. I’m going to hear what the oncologists at Mount Sinai have to say and if not satisfied we will move on to the next option… even if I have to beg at Sloan Kettering… I also agree that there needs to be a good chemistry between doctor and patient, I think that is very important.
I am looking into alternative/complementary therapies as you suggested, this website has been so great at providing this information. But I haven’t decided on anything yet, I still have a lot of reading to do… for now, she is eating as healthy as possible as I said, avoiding sugars, eating organic and is taking antioxidant supplements, Maitake for her immune system and also a drink based of acai berry that is rich in antioxidants called Monavie. At least this is helping her recuperate, I don’t know if its having any effect on the cc…
Joyce, thanks again for all your valuable advice! best luck to you too!
L
Tiapatty-
Thank you so much for support and your suggestions with PDT it sounds great I will definitely look more into it.
blessings!
L
Dear Lainy, Jmoneypenny and Belle
Thank your for your all your support and suggestions. My mother was just discharged from the hospital in Miami last week and yesterday we traveled back home to New York City. I will definitely, seek a second opinion out here. I did call Sloan Kettering but they don’t take her insurance.
My mother’s primary cancer is intrahepatic that has spread to the peritoneom (sp?). The oncologists in Florida offered chemo as an option after she recuperates from the surgery (of her open biopsy and from the procedures she had for placing in stents in her bile duct). I have made an appointment with an oncologist at Mount Sinai hospital, referred by her primary doctor. I just hope that she can get strong enough to withstand chemo – if chemo is the best option for her. The truth is that I am very worried of my mother receiving such aggressive treatment as chemo, conventional medicine seems to sometimes do more damage than good…. I am afraid of having the same experience as your mom (joyce).
Also,I am unsure if I should push to get the best possible doctor for her in the area or if it does not matter because of the stage of her illness…. I feel this is some how the message that I’ve gotten from doctors, which I don’t know whether to believe or resist. thank you for any insights that you may have.
peace,
L
