Update March 29th 2013

Dear Family, Friends,

Below is some of Brenda wrote last night to answer a question that was asked.  I did some editing to it.  

David.

Dear---------,

No, they didn't remove the tumor.  If they remove it now the colostomy would be permanent.  We are trying to avoid that.  The hope is that with treatment the tumor will shrink enough to remove more conservatively.  Better yet that the tumor will resolve itself and move out!  My friend says we want it to pack its bags and walk out the door!  I want it to be so sick of green juice and green veges that it can't see to stay!  (A little tumor humor) I had my last ozone therapy today and tomorrow will be detox day.  Then I'm done except for recovering from surgery. So far that is going pretty smoothly.  I walked outside to a little restaurant for lunch and did the stairs instead of the elevators.  I'm still pretty sore and laughing hurts!  The colostomy is taking some getting used to.  It makes some pretty umm interesting noises.  Kind of embarrassing but nothing I can do about it!  So I'm learning to accept that which I cannot change.  Which seems to be quite a lot lately!  Life is interesting.  Time to evict that tumor for good!!!!!!!

-------------------------. Praise the Lord.  The nutritional supplements help a lot and the diet of fresh vegetables helps, too.  Here they give us papaya every morning.  It is good for cancer fighting.  We also eat a lot of salad and avocados.  They also fix a cactus that is supposed to be a good cancer fighting food.  It tastes great too.  Asparagus is also good.  They want us to avoid peas, corn and potatoes.  They are very high on the glycemic index.   They are also my three favorite foods!  Sigh!!! Time to find new favorites I guess! 

We hope to be home Monday.  I can hardly wait.  David has worked really hard these last few days getting all the supplements together for us as well as our friends that were having trouble.  So, they gave him a new name.  Oasis of Dope.  He's the local drug guy!

Looking forward to getting home,  and we will be back in 5/5 for 1 week.   Thank you for your prayers.

Love,

Brenda