John's Cancer Trip

  My friend Rita Ryan is going to laugh , point and say I told you so when I put this out there. Seems the best way to beat this is going vegan. No sugar, no red meat. So I'll have one last steak tonight and tomorrow be on vegie protein and iron. My mammoth hunting ancestors wouldn't understand, but considering my cousins and I have documented 200 years of cancer in the family, we must've been doing something wrong. Good thing beer is vegan   Family wants me to check with cancer dietician to see if organic is enough even including meat. https://mesothelioma.net/vegetarian-vegan-diets-cancer.../ From Rita Ryan Ha! Yes, finally! You need to cut out sugar/carbs too, they feed cancer. And beer has lot of carbs. But cannabis kills cancer! And cannabis is vegan, yay! Get the organic kind. I look forward to you falling in love with a plant based diet while enjoying medicinal marijuana. Please send pix!! Make sure you get enough plant-based protein. And stay away f...

Hard to watch one of my flawed heroes continue to slide. Jan Ullrich came in second three times to Lance and 3 times to earlier winners and won once. Generally the gaps between first and second are a minute or two. A little harder work in the off season, a change to pedalling style and he could have been one of the greats. But a habit of offseason partying had escalated to a difficult marriage and worse divorce and now this. Hope he gets the help he needs to turn his life around. [edit: Jan went into rehab and Lance went to help him and is bringing him to a center in Aspen] https://www.velonews.com/…/former-tour-de-france-champ-ullr One on my favorite cyclists and often called the best loved guy in the peleton, George Hincapie, on racing in Europe back in the day as a 19 year old, what a domestique really does besides get bottles of water from the team car, US Postal team, doping, proud moments, racing post doping and growing young riders.    https://youtu.be/MpeP...

From Facebook page Carol Roullard Art,  @CarolRoullardArt     Microcrystals made with chemicals (mostly household) and photographed through a microscope is her technique.       So we are all set for Ellie's first star gazing on Friday . via the telescope my daughter found online for 1/6th the price. We have a heck of a line up, and we will see how long Ellie lasts, but she will be wearing a red LED headlamp like Poppy, and she is so smart, that as long as we keep explaining and pointing out the meteors between planet and star sightings, she should maintain her attention. To the west of my daughter's house is just open range with low ridges about 2 m ... iles away, so we should not be bothered by glare from the Strip. Here is the lineup: Object, Time overhead,Time Set, Location at 7:35, Sun, noon, 7:35pm, West (for reference) Moon, noon, 7:09 pm, West - depending on Sunlight, may not be able to see Venus, 7pm,9:35pm, SW 36 degrees abov...

8/1 Here is the last time I am posting the Blog link. Any of the ones you have will still take you there. This is the short version and takes you to the top. https://johnscancertrip.blogspot.com/ If an old link takes you to a specific entry and you want the latest, click the arrow to the left of "John's Cancer Trip" ____ Been a busy day. I realized I had short term memory loss - was by myself and thought it was Alzheimers. I was very scared for 10 minutes. My mom died of Alzheimers at 62. Someone told me later that it was chemo fog.. Called Sunlife to find where my disablity check was in its travels, got FedEx tracking no at least, Found it could anytime till 8. Called Sun life and asked about benefits after i leave the company, took half hour and wrote down stuff buy had to ask each thin ... g 3 times and had trouble knowing which benefit she was talking about. Spent 2 hours with Home Health Aide answering questions Wrote email to summarize the benefits ...

I said I was going to make this easier on myself, so no custom links, no nav to other pages no pictures generally, no update dates, etc.  Scrape what's in Facebook and put it in here once a week. 7/26 Best day ever since Mid Feb. No pain, no drugs (exc couple chemo infusions on Thurs). Given nondrug products from naturopath in AZ. Most of pain gone after daughter got me a special cushion for sleeping sitting up. 7/29 Decided to spend the night in the hospital because I miss it so much! Got a chemo fever, but it was gone before I got out of ER. Hemoglobin dropped from chemo so getting transfusion then go home. Best sleep in 2 months, 8 hours. Asked for and got earplugs. Guess I should have been eating steak every night since Thursday I cannot wait to tell my oncologist, "You're fired!" I met with him on Thursday and went over the CT report from Mayo. I had gotten it before him and knew the content inside out and backwards. He was citing things that were not ...