Guest guest Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Hi all, Well, my grandma came back from the hospital. She started out with pancratic cancer in '08. She got it cut out. But then earlier this year was told she had liver cancer. Now, just before she left the hospital last week, they said she shows signs of brain cancer and possibly lung cancer too. Needless to say, she's depressed. She was essentially sent home by all her doctors to die. She's on hospice care, now. My uncle and dad are crushed and having a hard time with this news. The main problem of course is that none of them, including my grandma, is comfortable with death. However, that's something I have to leave up to each person for themselves to resolve. In the meantime, I still have hope that she could recover...if she wants to! Problem for me right now is that she will never be able to do even half the program. She is currently immobile. Her immune system is shot (has been getting lots of recurring infections in past year). Her writing arm is extremely weak. And she has partial heart failure that just occurred recently (it might be the statin drugs she takes). And to top it all off, she really doesn't think much of alternative medicine. And yet, despite all this, I learned tonight that she was " not ready to go " . My aunt actually heard my grandma say that she was not ready to die. OK, so here's my question for you all. I've heard of low dose Natrexone, and her doctor actually agreed that it would be OK for her to try that. But do any of you have other suggestions that would help boost her immune system that are easy to administer and affordable? I heard that just boosting the immune system a good bit has caused stoppage or even reversal of cancers in people. I'd love to go full speed ahead on a program, but my grandma is so weak right now, she could never do it. It's funny I should ask this question because it's not exactly as if I'm unaware of a bunch of alternative treatments. But it's sometimes good to hear from people who really have personal experience with something and can remind me about it. If it's something that's relatively easy or simple, maybe I can get her to do it on the basis that " maybe it won't work, but it won't hurt to try " . -Ken Bagwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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