Guest guest Posted October 2, 1999 Report Share Posted October 2, 1999 Dear Bill, she followed a hyper fractionated radiation therapy, which meant to go to the hospital here in Bern, Switzerland, 66 times, once in the morning, once in the late afternoon, 5 days a week, over a period of almost 7 weeks. The therapy ended last week and she is recuperating somewhat. Unfortunately the diagnosed tumor is of a diffuse type (brain stem astrocytoma) and causes substantial symptoms: she has lost her balance, her fine movements are only possible with a lot of concentration and her right arm is affected as well. Her eyesight is also affected. The target of the therapy: to stop the further growth of the tumor. We will have a comparing MRI by the end of October, to see what the result is. The therapy, accompanied by a cortisone treatment made her loose aprox 15 percent of her body weight with a substantial muscle shrinking, although she never lacked of apetite and we changed completely our diet: no animal fat, no heavily treated goods, no sugar, no alcohol nor coffeine etc. Before the symptoms became acute (June 6th) she was a keen sportswoman, doing lots of aerobics, joggind, biking, hiking, snowboarding and skiing. She is now gaining some lb's back. This however I attribute to the dietary change we underwent when the tumor was diagnosed through biopsy on July 6th. We largely followed the book by Quillin/:Beating Cancer with Nutrition; however, no concentrated or pill type nutritional supplementation. If you feel like telling us more about your BT and how you survived, we would greatly apreciate a response... Step to next step >, > Did I understand your message correctly: your wife has had 66 radiation >treatments? > >2 questions: >1. How is she? >2. What, if anything, if she taking in the way of nutrtional >supplementation (vitamins, herbs, minerals, etc.)? > >Bill > >Bill Asenjo, bt survivor, PhD candidate, CRC >http://www.tell-us-your-story.com/_disc68b/00000005.htm#ARCHIVES >Add your story at http://www.tell-us-your-story.com >Finding What We Have in Common One Story at a Time Trust & Respect Vuichard SCOTT Sports S.A. Route du Crochet 17 CH-1762 GIVISIEZ Switzerland Tel. +41 26 460 16 21 Fax. +41 26 460 16 01 e-mail: dvuichard@... daniel@... http//:www.scottusa.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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