Continued prayers~

Prayers are continuing...and hugs to you and the family.

Prayers and hoping all turns out very well.

Sue

Thank you for letting us know. So far, so good. You must be so hopeful and relieved at the progress so far. Keep us posted.

Sue, thinking of your son and big hugs to you!

Sending prayers and good thoughts to your son and you.

Thanks for the update, Sue. Bests wishes for continued improvement.

Sue, it's good to hear your son is doing well with treatment.

Lukkiirsh, everyone should be interested in that advice because it's known that our bodies silently fight off cancer cells we're never aware of. Since those foods make our immune systems fight harder, we should all be eating them.

Yes, if you have more information to share, please do. Thanks!

My husband's primary care physician has had a long time interest is holistic and nutritional medicine and he incorporates that into his Internal Medical Practice. After my husband's diagnosis, he spent countless hours educating us about how a change in diet along with other more natural remedies can work in tandem with modern medicine (to optimize the best results possible). In other words, we follow the directives of our oncologist exactly as prescribed, but use diet and holistic medicine to help control some of the side effects of the treatments like rebuilding the immune system, stomach problems, energy levels and so on. And it works!

When my husband started seeing him, the doctor put him on a diet that focus's on the G-Bomb foods, restricted sugars and asked him to avoid as much animal protein as possible as it's very hard on the kidneys. He also asked him to eat as much organic food as possible (even when he eats meat) to avoid the pesticides, antibiotics and other contaminants. Fish is the preferred protein if meat is consumed but only non farmed ocean fish like Alaskan Salmon. He's also supposed to (but doesn't always) avoid flour and other processed foods. Russian black bread is my husband's weakness so that's a tough one. LOL I would say that 85% of everything we do food wise now is home made from natural and organic foods and only 5% of what he eats is an animal based product. Meat he can live without but other than switching to Organic, milk was also something where he couldn't compromise.

There is famous doctor who's work our doctor was familiar with before he became popular. Even though I'm not into the hype of the popular doctor, parts of his program or his marketing stradegy, his website still has lots of articles and information about how nutrition and diet affects the body. And how it can help to keep someone from getting sick. You may have heard of him too, Dr. Joel Furhman. The problem I think is that people perceive that good diet will "cure" cancer, but that's not the case. And people think cure the cancer and it's over, but that's not the case either. Because their immune system is wiped out, many people with cancer become ill, even gravely ill with other ailments after the cancer is gone. The diet helps the body to rebuild the immune system and decrease the chance of secondary disease.

From July 2012 to Mid 2013 my husband was on the strong chemo treatments and finally went into remission in June 2013. However, to keep the myeloma from returning, he was put on a mild but continuous chemo regiment for life. He started the diet shortly after starting chemo in 2012 and has not been sick with as much as a cold since 2013. If he slacks from the diet for any length of time, he says he can feel his energy drop and system weaken.

G-Bombs are only part of the equation as there are lots of other foods that are are important too, Kale for example which is growing in popularity, broccoli and avacados to name a few.

There's a ton of information on Dr. Fuhrman's site. As I mentioned earlier, the hype of the site was a real turn off for me but once I was able to see past that, I (we) found a great deal of information to be very helpful.

Dr. Furhman

Many thanks for the prayers, good wishes and hugs. Because he is, I am also feeling very positive about the outcome. Probably be a week before I get another update. I don't hear well, especially on the phone, so he calls his sister, my (DD) and she calls me with the important details. She knows to speak slowly and loud. ;))

That is a nice arrangement, Sue. :) I'm glad to hear treatment is going well for your ds and that you are less anxious too. We'll keep up the good thoughts and prayers.

Sue you and your son are in my thoughts and prayers.