PART 1: A TYPICAL DAY ON MY CANCER FIGHTING REGIMEN

I decided it would be helpful for anyone coming to my site seeking out information on holistic/alternative cancer treatment to know what a typical day would look like on my holistic cancer fighting regimen. It took me a while to get this comfortable and efficient with my daily schedule during that time, but eventually I was able to whiddle my daily routine down to what you see below. I’ve written about many of the elements of my cancer treatment before, so be sure to click on the links if you want to know more.

A Day in The Life:

5:15am– wake up, take Beta-1, 3D Glucan, fill tea pot with 2 cups alkaline water from my KWK Genesis water system and start chopping vegetables for smoothie. Once water boils I pour 3 oz into my Essiac tea elixir and 8 oz into a mug with a green tea bag and stevia. I cover the green tea and let the Essiac cool. Then I rebound on rebounder for 10 minutes. Shower for 5-10 minutes.

5:50- After showering and waiting 30 minutes from time of taking the Beta Glucan, I sip Essiac tea as I chop the rest of my veggies for my smoothie. (click on prior link for more efficient way of doing this that I figured out later!)

6:00- Blend Lunch: Cancer Fighting Smoothie– (1/2 bunch watercress, 1/2 bunch cilantro, 1/8 red cabbage, 5 florets caulifower, 2 carrots, 1- 4 finger pinch broccoli sprouts, 1 apple, 1/2 c sprouted lentils, 1/2 avocado, 24-28 oz alkaline water) I also pack 25 sprouted almonds for a snack with lunch. Mix veggies in 64oz container Vitamix. Pour into 2- 32 oz mason jars. Pack in lunch bag.

6:15- Breakast: “CCFO”: Make 2/3c organic Nancy’s 1% cottage cheese with 6 Tbsp Barlean’s organic flaxseed oil. Stir with spoon then blend with immersion blender. Let sit for 5 minutes.

6:25- Eat “CCFO”- (cottage cheese flaxseed oil) on couch with my nose pinched. Pray over it asking God to heal “every cell in my body and help me have the strength to eat the CCFO.” Visualized cancer cells blowing up. Read today’s daily devotional entry from “Healing in His Wings”. Pray for my specific healing and talk with God about my anxieties. Ask enthusiastically (beg!) for Him to heal me. Sip green tea in between bites.

6:55– Get dressed quickly, put makeup on if time. Take 26 caplets of various supplements- Dr.Williams Daily Advantage multi-vitamins, fish oil, Vitamin C and Green Tea Extract, Vitamin D, Selenium, Magnesium, 8 barley power tablets.

7:15- Leave for work. (I live close by- Thank God!)

7:30– Arrive in classroom, make 2nd cup of green tea, put smoothies in fridge.

8:00– School starts.

10:00- Have sprouted almonds for snack. Make a glass of filtered water with my portable Waterman filter.

11:45- Bring students to lunch, come back to room, make 3rd cup of green tea, shake smoothie to blend and dreadfully stare at it for 30 minutes (in case you were wondering- it doesn’t taste very good.)

12:10- Start first “chug” of lunch smoothie, finish first 32oz mason jar of smoothie (nose pinched if needed.)

12:15- Bring kids to recess, try to get us much sunshine/ Vitamin D as possible. A few of my girl students giggle at me as we chat around the recess field and walk briskly with my sleeves and pants rolled up to get as much sunshine and lymph moving as possible. They loved to do it with me and we felt goofy together! (That was healing also <smile>)

12:30- Drink my 3rd cup of green tea, actually get some planning done while the kids are out of the room for their French class.

2:30- School gets out! Chug the other 32 oz mason jar of lunch smoothie. Lots of planning, grading, and parent emailing to do.

4:00- Get home, make 4th cup of green tea, put 2 slices of Ezekiel bread in the toaster before I do ANYTHING else. Pour 3 Tbsp of organic olive oil, basil, oregano, sea salt, and pepper into a small container. ENJOY my favorite after school snack more than anything that day! Relax and read books about nutrition and cancer, etc.

4:45ish- Jump on rebounder for 15 minutes, sometimes go to the gym to sit in the dry sauna, sometimes take a class or just walk on the treadmill.

5:00- Start chopping veggies for my dinner. Get frustrated over what I’m going to feed my husband. Make him a delicious cooked dinner while I eat the world’s largest salad…AGAIN.  (2-3 nights a week he would eat out or eat a salad WITH me so I didn’t have to torture myself with cooked food. I cooked to save money.) Read more about dealing with non-protocol following family members HERE (scroll down to bottom.)

5:30- Dinner: BIG Salad- 2 large handfuls of spinach, 1/4 red onion, 1/2 avocado, sprouted almonds, 1 chopped Roma tomato, 10 broccoli florets, 1/2 pepper, 1 handful sunflower sprouts, 1- 4 finger pinch broccoli sprouts, sprouted lentils or mung beans. Season with olive oil and lemon or apple cider vinegar.

6:15- I’m still eating my salad, decide to throw the remaining stuff in the Vitamix with some water. Chug it down.

7:00- A friend or family member calls. Have to explain to them for the millionth time that the cancer won’t take over my body overnight, I have full confidence in my body’s ability to recover, and YES- I am still seeing my oncologist who is supportive.

7:30- Have a crying moment over my friend or family member’s comment about “What if it doesn’t work?” My husband tells me that I am stronger than that and they don’t know what they’re talking about anyways. I feel better and stronger. Drink second cup of Essiac tea.

8:00- Hungry again. Eat an entire avocado with a spoon! Some days I would have a shot of wheatgrass juice with my hubby. Swallow 20 more supplements (2nd dose of ones listed in the morning.)

9:00- 5 minutes of rebounding again. Drink cucumber, carrot, kale juice. Spend 1 minute chugging the juice, spend 10 minutes cleaning the juicer.

10:00- Bedtime on my fabulous, non-toxic organic mattress from SavvyRest. (Seriously- the best bed EVER.) Sleep to restore my body and strengthen my immune system.

**For the interest of the reader I left out all of the everyday, mundane stuff such as dishes, laundry, bill paying, checking email, and also any social things that would pop up. The treatment process also evolved some. There were some treatments I had flings with but discontinued after I found out they weren’t helpful or just were too overwhelming for me. Some of these are: daily fresh juicing of wheatgrass morning and night (time consuming,) melatonin at night (unhelpful for Lymphoma patients,) twice a day enemas on the bathroom floor (time consuming and torturous,) wheatgrass enemas (time consuming, torturous, and expensive!) and possibly a few others I can’t recall right now.

There just came a point where I forgave myself for giving up these protocols and used my favorite affirmation: “I’m doing the best I can with the time I have.”

Join me tomorrow for Part 2: 5 Tips for Cancer Confidence

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