Ty Bollinger

So....Ty Bollinger is an american who has spent years researching cancer, alternative treatments and flying the big pharma conspiracy flag. I have to confess I was sceptical, I am not sure how I got hooked into his online docu series 'The truth about cancer' I must have clicked on something somewhere, most probably facebook. 

Initially, the americaness sort of reminded me of the charecter in Donnie Darko played by Patrick Swayze, claiming to be a healer in an over the top evangelical way, waving his hands to the sky and claiming god had put everything here for us to use. The docu series itself has elements of evangelism, but it has piqued my interest.

Each episode is 1 and a half hours long and travels the world speaking to various doctors, specialists, professors, homeopaths, juicing queens.....all of whom are offering the latest in alternative treatments, nutrition and magical cures. I have watched 5 episodes so far.

Some such as homeopathy, i don't even bother to watch and fast forward through, i know homeopathy is not for me as it just doesn't make scientific sense. So far though, the revelations that have caught my little eye is the clinic in Mexico, a viral therapy in Latvia and Denderetric cell replacement in Germany. The diet advice has been interesting too and I have bought supplement after supplement on Amazon that has been recommended, where I have thought that the claim makes sense. it's like a 'cure your own cancer' pick and mix.

I would recommend to anyone with cancer in their lives to watch this series with an open mind, bits of it may not be for you, but ideas can be cherry picked and seeds can be sown (and sprouted and consumed.......... broccoli sprouts.......very good apparently)

I am just thankful for any sensible offers of hope from sources that don't involve chemo or radiation. The supplements I have been taking may or may not have been responsible for my 'normal' white blood cell count, but that is what i have had throughout my treatment so far, with little or no side effects the only side effect being lethargy. I feel good, when I start to get indigestion or something i alkanise my system naturally.

With the meeting with my macmillan nurse around the corner I am now going to be taking a new list of supplements for the pharmacy to check out and also questions involving alternatives to chemo, as more and more I am questioning whether there are better treatments available that don't destroy the healthy cells of the body vital for absorbing the good food needed to heal. It makes sense with the turmeric I have been taking that my WBC will be good and that my red cells may go down, which has been the case for me. I am now taking feroglobin to boost the red cells, the only thing is it has leisin in it which I have heard is not good for chemo so I do need to make sure what i am doing is of benefit by getting feedback from the pharmacy.

So the research continues......along with the formulation of a business idea, if I am going to be kicking around for abit longer than I originally thought I need to start thinking what my career move is going to be. Interestingly, with this diagnosis, with the mindset that goes along with it, the liberation of the mind to remove the restrictions that we place on ourselves, my idea of a career has changed completely. Yes I am making future plans, yes I am taking control of this....I just need to win the lottery.....

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Well it has been a while, mostly because there has been nothing to report, except the daily weekly grind, and peaks and troughs of lethargy. I have been concentrating on my daughter, who has needed extra support. I have had to have an occupational therapist to assess her as it is believed that she has sensory processing issues, and I believe this is causing her anxiety at school, so it has been a costly but very worth it venture and we should be receiving the help that we need now. Anyway back to the blog......


I had my 6th Taxol Sess, (notice I am down with the 'cancer' lingo ) this time was really ok,  I slept in the clinic and listened once again to my healing meditations. the staff are lovely but forgot to give me my steroids ( to stop a reaction to the chemo) luckily I remembered before I left the hospital and was able to get them, before I was taken home where I could collapse for the afternoon. my daughter and I have been nurturing our vegetable seeds with great vigour and she has enjoyed watching her pea shoots and rainbow chard shoot up, she has been checking their water and we have been discussing what the next stage is. It really warms my heart that she is getting involved with this I am determind to teach her how to grow food and look after the planet. We are going to do a beach clean on Sunday, to rid the beach of plastic, it's an event organised by the 'Surfers Against Sewage'. Plastic is a real problem in our seas and some of it that gets washed up dates back to the 60's and 70's!! imagine what the future holds regarding that.....Anyway sorry I am obviously going of on 'daughter' tangents today...back to cancer .......

I watched a documentary today called 'The Truth about Cancer' it was interesting (american) and gave great history regarding big pharma companies and the FDA in America, there is a vast conspiracy and the film explained all of it and where it had all come from, dating back to the second world war. It also travelled the world to interview nutrionalists and herbalists all who have Phd's and have studied cancer and alternative treatments. Some of it I lost interest in, but I guess it is part of a series of online films and it needed to lay the foundations for the rest of them. I am sceptical about totally going for alternative therapies but I definately see the place for nutrition and scientifically proven supplements. One thing the film threw up was a clinic in Mexico that specialises in alternative treatments, the laws there are relaxed and really exciting treatments can be tried. They have had amazing success rates, there is however a risk, you are trusting the doctors but in my mind I would be very willing to try this approach having had my life dose of some conventional treatments as a child. So I am investigating this, I have sent off a form for a free treatment plan (before the big bucks start getting mentioned). being a stage 4 cancer patient, I am doing everything I can to be around for my daughter as she grows and the idea of flying out to Mexico to be 'fixed' with natural stuff is quite appealing....The finances won't allow I am sure, but perhaps I could jump out of a plane and raise some funds....

I have a clinic appointment next week, I hope to find out when I will be scanned, as I am becoming anxious to know what is going on with the cancer blighters.

I have been monitoring my bloods weekly and keeping a record. My tumour marker went up from 11 to 13, which has spurred on this surge on new information regarding cancer and the formation from stem cells and how chemo works etc as it could be quite possible in the words of Richard Ashcroft, 'The drugs don't work'.....

Chemo number 5

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Yea baby! Chemo number 5 on a mambo tip. It feels good to be heading towards the end of this first round of 6 chemos before my scans. Yes I am tired, the accumulation of chemicals in my body, leaves me drained. Today was chemo day and I plugged myself into a healing meditation on my phone, the anthistamine makes me very tired, and so I was taken away into deep meditation very easily, I was completely somewhere else until the poignant moments of the visualisations.......I do however have this deep fear that one day the whole ward will be treated to Kelly Howell and her american visualisation programming for the mind when my bluetooth fails. On my 40th birthday party I stupidly allowed my daughter freedom to choose from audio files to play on giant party speakers.........yep you guessed it all of a sudden I heard the dolcite tones of my meditations come swimming over the airways....and like an episode of 'Miranda' I went bounding over in slow motion to turn it off, cocktail in one hand index finger poised for sudden button pressing on the other...........

Most of my fellow patients in the HODU (haematology, oncology, 'something' unit) are much more interactive and chatty and probably wouldn't appreciate being taken up some remote mountain (probably in tibet) to discover a round building where they can go in and sit in fur rugs and make affirmations about getting well while balancing various crystals, they would rather have a cup of tea and biscuit and chat to each other or read, and why not eh?

Last week I nose dived after chemo number 4, and this week, I certainly made good relations with the sofa again, covered with a fluffy blanket I was acutely aware that I was becoming familiar with the schedule of the daytime tv....and the bombardment of various hunts, various quizzes...but mostly hunts....lots of hunts and auctions of lets face it...quite alot of tat, and there is only so much tat one can sympathetically look upon with an enquiring mind,  and anything that starts with people wearing t shirts and some naff music...its enough to make your toes curl...sorry bargain hunt.*cringe*.

Anyway, I have decided on my next cancer curing adventure, literally I had read online about choirs being immune boosting and helping cancer patients, to be honest who cares if it is, it makes you feel good, especially when they are joyful fun songs, Stevie Wonder, Funk, soul, Harmonies, Folk, I would be so up for that!! It would be lovely to sing together with people to music. So I have put it out there locally to see if there is anything like that or if anyone would be interested in starting one. I can't sing for toffee, but what the heck I say. As I typed it into facebook, the item came up on the news and how research has revealed the benefits of choral singing. So if anyones interested? let me know!! Would love it if musicians joined in too. Talking of choirs....I love the Spooky Mens Chorale, if you get chance to see them please do, they are brilliant and talented and very funny...Bah'ri Gibb