After Cancer

I'm sorry to hear about your struggle as I just watched my 26-year-old husband battle testicular cancer for a year-and-a-half (they found his cancer after he was injured in Afghanistan - crazy things, right?). He had six surgeries in three different countries and four rounds of chemo. He is a larger man in frame (6'3" and 225 lbs. when in shape) and the aggressive regimen he was on took its toll in bouncing him up to almost 270 lbs. He was so self conscious and embarrassed, but had managed to get all the way down to 220 through diet alone (since he had to have a RPLND in April he could not exercise until just recently). A HUGE part of his success was switching our household to whole foods. I know this may sound stupid, but he could not tell how bogged down he was by artificial sweeteners, preservatives, dyes, etc. until we did this switch. We switched in January (he had just finished chemo at the end of August) and he immediately started to lose the weight with no exercise and we felt AMAZING (I am ex-military, he is still active duty and this was a huge difference in both our lives).
I do NOT claim that diet alone can do it because we did look into that Gerson crock of stuff before he started chemo. While large doses of Vitamin C given through IV can help battle certain cancers, most do not respond to a diet shift or fruit/vegetable juices and enemas. Every time we attempted contact we were blown off since he is a soldier. My mother is an RN in Oncology (for over 20 years now) and has seen three people decline treatments to pursue the Gerson "miracle" therapy. Two of the three, who were in very early, treatable stages ended up dying during treatments. The third was already in the second stage, progressed to the third during "treatments," and wised up and had the chemo. I've seen/heard nothing but death/sadness from that supposed "miracle" therapy and am incredibly hostile towards it (yes, I've watched every documentary on it and read many papers on it, both from outside sources and followers of the idea). Please do take care of yourself through diet and exercise, but don't take it to mean you should skip on treatments/scans.

I do believe diet is where 80%+ of our diseases/health stem from (yes, I totally made that statistic up - it's just my idea). I do know that there are diseases (like cancer) that require treatments/medicines, but I think that you can always help it along by being in your best health and eating as well as you can. You just add on more issues if your health is crap when you are combating a serious illness. And I just feel contempt towards them, not people that have heard about them and wonder if there is a better way (I believe there is, btw - chemo is poison, but it's the best we've got for now).
Regardless, carolgtaylor5, please know that though I definitely don't know the feelings/struggles you deal with directly, I know someone who does who. I hope that you can find lots of support on here and you can feel free to message me directly or send a friend request.