ECHO?

Sitting in the waiting room at the Dr's office - double checking to make sure I don't have a "Mitral Valve Prolapse" - sounds hot!
Great doc here in Bev Hills; very thorough and considerate. Got all the blood test results back and everything is normal except HDL Cholesterol which is low...fortunately you bring up HDL by doing cardio, so that's easy. Only prob is I'm not realy working out at all right now to allow the body all the available energy/reparative resources for healing...must get back on the rebounder! I'm becoming quite the multi-tasker of late - many, many things to update you on blog!

Don't forget the fat!

I'm theorizing that the pain under the right shoulder blade was somehow related to a backup of bile in the liver/gb as a result of forgetting to add in the daily amount of flax oil. Outside of the flax oil I'm not taking in any other fat right now, so it becomes very important to incorporate it daily to avoid that painful congestion in the gall bladder. I also don't want to encourage the body to hoard fat because it doesn't feel it's getting enough through the daily intake.

Moving Thoughts

It's always a little surprising to me when I have "normal" bowel movements these days. Given that I'm up to three coffee enemas daily, I wouldn't expect to have much activity outside of those times when I'm having my "coffee break." I think that the sheer volume of food and juices I'm taking in at this point are more than adequate and contributing not only to a greater sense of well-being but also to increased peristaltic activity. My weight is slowly coming back (I think I was down as low as I've ever been for a while there) and that's been a reassuring development. I'm guessing that as the body normalizes and heals it begins to rebuild and reestablish the setpoint. It certainly has shifted around a bit over the last few months, but I'm feeling very good about things right now.

Simplify

I realized what is so appealing about the Gerson therapy today: the utter simplicity of it...yes, there's 13 daily juices, and yes, there is constantly something to be prepped, cleaned, juiced, enema'd, eaten, swallowed, injected, boiled, cooked...but, looking at the list of foods that I've been eating for the last two months it dawned on me that I love not having to think about what I'm doing in that aspect of my life (and many aspects I suppose!) - I know what I have to eat and drink and do and I just DO IT. Whatever it takes I get it done. I'm going to go through my belongings again and prioritize what I really need out from what I kinda sorta like having around and see if I can't get rid of or give away another big chunk of belongings in an effort to simplify. I remember (vaguely) a saying that summed it up nicely, something along the lines of "be careful of being posessed by your posessions.". That is definitely not it; I need to look that one up if I can find it. I need to get back to cleaning this junkyard up. I need to simplify.

Done

Blood drawn, good to go. Never have liked needles, always have to turn away for the poke and drain...it will be interesting to have to incorporate the daily injection of liver support/B12. Like anything else I'm sure it's a matter of getting used to it...can't be all bad right? (The B12 will probably be a welcome addition I'd imagine - can't be getting too much from what I'm eating.). Need to post the current diet and schedule up soon.

Wow

Walking down to get my comprehensive blood panel done for profiling by the Gerson clinic (Tijuana) and I'm just hacking up gobs of mucous. I'd imagine this is from not eating yet today (fasting blood baseline), but could also be from the Country Baskets herbs. More on that later.

Staged

I'd like to at some point talk about what stage I'm in with all this - the diagnosis was fairly recent as far as that goes - July 20th is what's written on the diagnosis paper I have. I need to detail out the discussions with the PA who biopsied the mole, the oncologist who was scheduled to do the wide excision/sentinel lymph node biopsy, and the doctor of dermatology who the PA works for. Very interesting conversations all, but the same themes showing up over and over again...nutrition shocker to come. Pretty depressing when I think about those talks actually; no one should have to ever go through that. I'll get to the psychology of this whole process in short order as well. People should know or have some sense of what to expect when they or a loved one is faced with a diagnosis like this.