Finally Treatment That Won't Kill Me

    Today I went to see an alternative medicine doctor (Dr. Garcia) at Utopia Wellness. He seemed very honest and not hiding anything from my husband and myself.  He said to me lets hear your  story so I started when I was 6months old just to give him the reason for my seizures. He said lets hear why you are here. So I got right into it and said I have brain cancer. The type was glioblastoma grade 4. I also told him that the oncologist wanted to do radiation and chemotherapy treatments and that she said about my life expectancy of 3-6 month with treatment and 2 years with he said there is no guarantee in life unless you are God. We all will die when it's our time, but we were not put on this planet to worry about everything and anything. The most important thing is to enjoy every minute of our life! 

After weighing the options, I felt like alternative medicine was the best route to go with for this type of tumor (Glioblastoma grade 4) so I said I would like to start but would have to talk to some people first.  That night we went to see Bob's parents and told them about the alternative medicine therapy and that was the route I would like to go. The only problem was the financial aspect.  It wasn't cheap so we told them it was $2950.00 to start but it was a lot safer and cheaper then radiation and chemo. They said if that's the way I want to go they would make it work so I could start on Monday. 


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They're Not Going to Do This to Me

Today I went to see the Oncologist my appointment was at 2:00 and Bob and I had to wait a hour to get into the examining room. When I was waiting the people I saw coming into and out of the office were in pretty sad shape, some left so out of it that they didn't even speak. Others were hooked up to oxygen and some were even lost a limb. That convinced me right there that I wasn't, by any means going to do radiation and chemotherapy. I am not going to end up looking sicker then I should be just for maintenance, for the security that nothing will grow back when the doctor said he got it all. I finally got in to see the doctor and she went through her sales pitch that you will have 3-6 months to live if you didn't receive treatment and 2 years with treatment. That didn't seem like very good odds to me, you can't guarantee that you will live 5 minutes, I could walk out this office right now and get run over by a car and be dead. Who is she to play God. When we asked her her opinion on alternative medicine she said she didn't have any and that there was no substantial proof that it worked. Doctors are not able to give opinions about alternative medicine as they can get their license revoked and possible jail time if they do give any opinions on alternative medicine

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My First Post Op Follow Up

I went to see the surgeon for my follow up visit and when Bob and I met the doctor he seemed to me to be in a rush like I was just a number. He said that the tumor was hard to diagnose being that it was a type that they don't see to often but it turned out to be cancerous.He started to leave the room and as he started to go Bob asked him the type of tumor it was, what was it called. It was like pulling teeth to get him to write it down for us. Finally he did and it was called a glioblastoma grade 4 the worst type being that it was the most aggressive one. If there is a microscopic piece left it can grow back. After the information he quickly exited the room we went to the receptionist and the doctor told her to make an appointment for the oncologist as soon as you can. It gave me the impression that he was just trying to sugar coat things, that he didn't get all the tumor out to leave it to the oncologist to finish. So I got an appointment for September 26th on Wednesday.

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Got Ok to Go Home

One of the surgeons affiliated with Dr. Glasser came to my room and said that he was one of the doctors that worked with Dr. Glasser. He said that they were going to send the tumor to get analyzed and would let us know the result when we went to follow up visit with Dr. Glasser. They were going to arrange to have me go home.

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