November 2015.
This could be the best place ever! It is hard to describe but it feels like my fear is starting to dissolve. I am not crying every day. I feel like every single thing that is being fed into my body is helping me get stronger.
Usually, my day starts off with injections including mistletoe, thymus and buserelin. Three times per week, they do the ozone blood therapy, vitamin C + a B17 booster IV and then an artemisinin IV. The dose of the vitamin C at 7.5g is much lower than what I have been receiving in Canada which is 50g. The germans are amazed when I tell them that I get 50g twice a week back home.
Next up is the hyperthermia. Cancer HATES heat so what better way to break up the tumours than to heat them up. I lie on what looks like a single waterbed and then they place an arm with a water balloon attached over the spots where my tumours are. I lie there for an hour getting cooked. Different people have different tolerances in terms of how high they can bear the heat. I cannot go above 70 where Summer gets it up to 140 and she’s doing it twice a day. I’ve always been a lightweight.
Localized magnetic field therapy is another daily ritual. They have an apparatus that looks like a microphone that they place over the tumour areas. You sit with it for 20 minutes and all done. No pain. I could get used to this. Compared to going through chemo and radiation, this treatment plan is a walk in the park. With chemo, I couldn’t get out of bed on some days.
The really sweet part about being here are the massages, reflexology and detox foot baths. If you have never had a detox foot bath, you should check it out. It could be the most disgusting thing you will ever see. The water starts off clear and clean and after 25 minutes, it is brown and murky. What the hell have I done to my body. What is coming out of me? Sweet Jesus!
The German’s are big into oxygenating the body and the magnetic field therapy. The afternoon treatment includes lying on the PEMF mat (like the one that I have at home) while inhaling oxygen. Talk about feeling energized at the end of the day.
Each evening, Krista and I head back to the farmhouse to hang with the cows and get some work done. This place is a little piece of heaven. The Bavarian alps are stunning. It feels so clean and fresh. We have fresh milk and eggs and some fresh smelling cows. Krista is teaching me how to eat vegetarian. And rest assured, she has heard more whining and complaining than one person can deal with. She is a trooper. Gently guiding but never backing down. She is going to get me to turn this corner if it’s the last thing she does. Dr. Weber has provided a number of supplements and tinctures for me to take. Again, poor Krista has to put up with me not being able to swallow a few pills. She is a true angel. Poor thing, I would have packed up and headed out about a week ago. But she stuck with me.
This trip is proving to be more than I could have ever imagined. I feel vital and healthy, mentally I am strong than I have been since my original diagnosis. We are seeing small progress in terms of markers and tumour shrinkage but the rest of me is so grateful to be here.
- Kim
Tumour Marker CA-15-3 = 71.2
Tumour Marker CEA = 8.1
photo: Krista McKeachie