Clean Sweep

Well, another enzyme cycle bites the dust. As appreciative as I am for my enzymes, 5 nights of uninterrupted sleep is such a treat! It's positively Zen-like- eating when I want and no pills! Ah, the little things we take for granted!
This month's detox is called "The clean sweep". It's actually the easiest for me of the 3 procedures that I alternate on my off cycles. The clean sweep is achieved by adding Bulking agent to 8 oz. of apple, carrot, or tomato juice followed by a glass of water twice a day for 5 days. That's it! Piece of raw carrot cake!
What happens is that the bulking agent absorbs tons of water like a sponge and enlarges, gradually working it's way through and pushing out all the stored wastes, bacteria, and other organisms in it's path. These wastes can accumulate over many years and can interfere with nutrient absorption. Ok, probably t.m.i. (too much info) already. Time to get started on my z's.

It's Raining Miracles

The universe is providing for my family big time these days!
In addition to my health miracle, the other night my amazing, precious 18 year old son was involved in a roll over crash while a passenger in his friend's car. The car rolled over and over 4 times, yet all 5 boys walked away without a scratch! The paramedics told one of the boys that he's lucky to be alive, never mind unharmed.


Then as if that's not enough, my son went back the next day to the scene of the crash looking for his wallet and found it just laying there on the grass with everything still in it.
All I can say is THANK YOU, THANK YOU, A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU!!! I hope I'm worthy enough to be able to pay it forward and give something back to the universe.
Of course this is not what I have in mind, but it's a start. I've gotten some requests for the raw cereal I eat every morning, so I promised I'd post the recipe and directions. Here it is:

 RAW 14 GRAIN CEREAL 
Wheat Berries
Buckwheat
Rye
Oat Groats
Millet
sesame seeds
brown rice
flaxseed
corn
alfalfa seeds
lentils
mung beans
barley
almonds

Mix all together and store in fridge.

To prepare:
The night before take 2-3 tablespoons and grind in a coffee grinder or magic bullet until a fine powder consistency.
Put in bowl and add purified, spring, or coconut water. The cereal soaks up many times it's weight in water, so make sure it's a bit thin.
Cover and put in fridge overnight.
The next morning mix and add more water/coconut water if necessary. Add berries, coconut meat, stevia to taste.

I also found a great interview with Dr. Gonzalez wherein he explains in detail his program and how it works.

Enzyme Appreciation

It's so freeing to have the proof that what I'm doing is working. I mean I've read my report so many times it's about to make the bestseller list. The wording on those things is so darn ambiguous that I want to make sure I didn't misunderstand anything. Like, for example it says that the prior liver lesion is "no longer appreciated". To tell you the truth, I never appreciated the damn thing to begin with. If there's someone out there that appreciated my liver lesion at any time, I want to know who you are!
At any rate, after careful analysis my original interpretation still stands. It's now a history book.
So let's move on to something I really do appreciate. Since my great news, there's been much interest in my protocol, so I thought I'd re-post my oh so exciting schedule. It would bring me so much joy to help even one person make a decision that may just save their life.

Here goes:
Wake up at 3:30AM- take 16 pancreatic enzymes. Roll over and pass out.
Wake up again at 7:20AM- Take 16 enzymes and 2 supplements.
9AM- juice carrots and greens
9:30 AM-eat breakfast of raw 14 grain cereal with berries, take 24 supplements and 3 enzymes.
Heat up coffee for morning enema-(made the previous night)
Dry brush skin
11:30AM- take 16 enzymes and 4 supplements
2PM- Green Smoothie in Vita Mix, take 1/2 tspn vital 10, 22 supplements, and 3 enzymes.
3:30PM- take 16 enzymes and 4 supplements. Make coffee for afternoon enema.
4:30 afternoon enema, green juice
6:30- prepare and eat raw veggie dinner. Take 24 supplements and 3 enzymes.
8 PM- Green or carrot juice, take 16 enzymes and 2 supplements. Prepare coffee for morning enema. Prepare raw 14 grain cereal to soak until morning.
9 PM- Salt and soda bath (2X per week), dry brush skin.
11PM- take 16 enzymes and 8 supplements.
3:30AM- lather, rinse, repeat
In between there at some point take a walk, jump on rebounder, live life (believe it or not!)

Oh, and the diet is not exactly as prescribed, but it works for me, since eating animal products just doesn't resonate with me. The prescribed diet is actually much more liberal and each person gets an individualized diet according to their metabolic type.

Felony in CancerLand

As I write this it's been just about 48 hours since I've eaten, with the not so notable exception of two oranges. I couldn't finish all my citrus punch yesterday because it felt like it was burning a hole through my esophagus, so I added water and finished it today. The epsom salts gave me such severe stomach distress that I didn't take my dose today. So, now I feel guilty that I cheated and didn't comply with my detox. I feel like the cancer police are going to come and put the cuffs on me. And I'm too weak to resist, so I hope someone bails me out. Well, at least the Reiki circle was a success.

Purge this!

Today is the first day of my five day vacation from the pills, but like always there's a caveat to that- this time the ominously named "Purge".
I started my morning as usual with my "upside down coffee break" and then began my purge. The recipe calls for drinking a tablespoon of epsom salts dissolved in water three times in a one hour period. Simple right? Well, if you've never had the displeasure of drinking epsom salts let me just say that if I was faced with a decision of whether to drink a glass of epsom salts or a glass of my own urine, I would actually have to think about it. I have never questioned compliance with this program until now, but I have to confess that the thought did cross my mind more than once this morning. Actually three times to be exact.
Now with that experience behind me I have to ingest nothing but a gallon of punch made from orange, grapefruit, and lemon juice mixed with water for the rest of the day. A glass every hour in fact. Oh, I forgot- I can eat an orange for dinner. Better pull out the good china for that one.
And I get to repeat the whole process again tomorrow. Pulling out the heavy artillery from my weapons arsenal this time!
On a positive note, I'm going to a Reiki Circle with my fabulous cousin later and my good friend is in from NY. Isn't life great?

Having your card confiscated- PRICELESS!

I think the magnetic stripe on my cancer card is damaged. I mean, once in a blue moon I come out of the cancer closet and pull out my cancer card- and it's rejected!
First my son got stopped for riding his dirt bike and the police officer acted like he was public enemy number one. I was just barely able to exchange the cancer card for a get out of jail free card, but the cop was so unimpressed that he still gave him four tickets and a court date. I think I should ask for a credit line increase.
Then I tried to use it to get some medical bills reduced but again- Rejected!
Is this card getting so darn commonplace that the members are no longer afforded any benefits?
Of course I'm just looking forward to the day mine gets permanently confiscated. "Oh sorry miss, but your no-cancer credit's no good here". Who the heck needs the stupid thing anyway!

What are you grateful for?

That's what it says on a plate my best friend gave me for my birthday. I had one of the best birthdays I've ever had. I am so grateful for the people I have in my life who help make every day on this earth special. It's amazing how when the chips are down some people just show up so incredibly for you that it takes your breath away. I feel so lucky and blessed to receive and return so much love.
I even took some new pictures so I can post one that actually looks like me. I've changed so much mentally over the last year or so that I figured I may as well reinvent myself physically as well. The best part is that I'm pretty happy with the new me and that's always a good thing!

Hooray for getting old!

I remember when my birthdays were a big deal. They were cause for a big, celebratory night on the town complete with the requisite post birthday hangover. I'm not quite sure when my birthdays themselves started getting old, but at some point they became something I didn't want to think about let alone celebrate.
Well thank you cancer for making me appreciate my birthdays again. I'm having another one this week and I'm not only looking forward to it, but I'm actually relishing it.
That's right, I'm grateful for getting older. I guess I've realized that the alternative is decidedly less attractive. So yeah, I'm gonna celebrate. I'll be rocking my family room dance floor. I'll drink my veggie juice from a martini glass, eat raw,organic birthday cake, and have a pajama party with my posse.
I'll put birthdays on the list of things I'm grateful for and on the list of things I won't take for granted. Every day is an opportunity to learn and grow, to mess up and get it right. Birthdays are like big, fat curtain calls for the year gone by.
It's all a journey and the ride's as important as the destination.
Happy birthday to me!

Life in the fast lane

I thought I would illustrate a typical day on my program.  This is during the 20 days each month that I'm on my enzymes and supplements and has been abridged to include only program-related tasks. Obviously, life still takes place somewhere between the lines (believe it or not).  

So hold onto your hats and send the kiddies under cover, cause this is not for the faint of heart! (kidding...Disney is more titallating than my life these days)

Wake up at 3:30AM- take 16 pancreatic enzymes. Roll over and pass out.

Wake up again at 7:20AM- Take 16 enzymes and 2 supplements.

9AM- juice carrots and greens, eat breakfast of raw 14 grain cereal with goji berries, blueberries and blackberries, take 24 supplements and 3 enzymes. 

Heat up coffee for morning enema-(made the previous night)

Dry brush skin

11:30AM- take 16 enzymes and 4 supplements

2PM- juice carrots and greens, prepare and eat raw veggie lunch take 1/2 tspn vital 10, 22 supplements, and 3 enzymes. 

3:30PM- take 16 enzymes and 4 supplements. Make coffee for afternoon enema.

4:30 afternoon enema

6:30- juice carrots and greens, prepare and eat (mostly) raw veggie dinner. Take 24 supplements and 3 enzymes.

8 PM- take 16 enzymes and 2 supplements. Prepare coffee for morning enema. Prepare raw 14 grain cereal to soak until morning.

9 PM- Salt and soda bath (2X per week), dry brush skin.

11PM- take 16 enzymes and 8 supplements. 

3:30AM- lather, rinse, repeat

Well, all that excitement has exhausted me. Goodnight.....

You are what you eat? I hope not!

After much ado, the alternative treatment winner is...enzyme therapy. The treatment is a nutritional one consisting of high doses of porcine (as in oink) pancreatic enzymes, supplements, coffee enemas, and a customized, organic diet.
I take pills around the clock. I actually set my alarm for 3:30 AM to down 16 pig pancreas pills (can you say that 5 times fast?) through a sleep deprived haze. The idea is to sock it to the cancer constantly. My life is like "beat the clock" because the enzymes need to be separated from food by at least one hour.
I'm not complaining, though, because I'm lucky to have these weapons in my arsenal. War is never easy, and cancer is a formidable foe. Plus, I get 5 days vacation from the pills every month. How lucky am I?