my story prt 3

I am a sucker for ice cream and for a year and a half I did not have even one teaspoon. Green food was my replacement. Yuck, nothing like the taste of blue green algae and wheat grass to fix you right up. Actually, later in this story I'll tell you how I overcame the sweets thing.

Wow, a year and a half of working with my naturopath and the P.E.T. scan comes back negative. Overjoyed, elated, what can I say. I was told that I needed to stay on my program to make sure it didn't return. I was a good boy for awhile. Then as time goes by I started slipping into some old bad habits, like eating things I had missed; ice cream being one.

I'm feeling pretty good. I'm living life and not thinking very much about cancer and the emotions it had brought. I continue to take my energy food but I really don't check my Ph very often. I'm not using the frequency device. What for? The dang cancer is gone, right? Then around January of 2009 I go to a conference up in McCall, ID and while I was there I felt my neck and to my horror their was another lump on my neck.

How could this be. I thought they took out all the lymph glands on the left side of my neck last time around. Do they grow back or something? To say the least I was a little unnerved. Of course, my first thoughts were cancer. The voice of my naturopath came back to me about being careful because the cancer can come back. Microscopic bits can be left skulking around that the P.E.T. scan won't pick up.
A note here: P.E.T. scans can be fooled both ways. There are false positives also. If you have just finished a regimen of radiation or have an area of inflammation/infection  these can throw off a false positive. You will need to wait a few weeks to make sure, particularly since the insurance companies are a bit strict on how often you can have a P.E.T. scan due to the high cost.

My P.E.T. scan came back showing the cancer had returned in the same location - left side base of my tongue. I had started doing my program again as soon as I felt the lump. When conferring with my nautropath we hit it strong and added a few other modalities to the mix. But after a year of this the next scan showed the tumor had grown although it had not spread to other areas. We decided we needed something else because what worked before wasn't working now.

I still didn't want the typical surgery, radiation and chemo regimen. Of course my ENT doctor was almost pleading with me. Research turned up a clinic that was supposedly having great results with a combination of low dose radiation and hyperthermia. There was a company that had been doing it for many years and the doctor was supposed to be a pioneer in the technology. Should I or shouldn't I? How do you make a decision on something like this?