From: Andrew Johnson
Date: 2013-08-22 00:50:49
Attachments : More updates – as comprehensive and educational as ever – from Lloyd. Day #15 at Marinus—Hearing Those Ultrasound BluesToday, Monday, marks exactly two weeks that I’ve been here. When my tumor was discovered and measured by CAT scan in Destin, FL, on July 11 it was 13 x 10 centimeters (5.11 x 3.9 inches), the size of a softball. When I arrived here and started treatments on August 6, 26 days after first measuring it, it was reduced down to 10.2 x 6.8 cm (4.0 x 2.67 in.). That reduction was due to my “home brew” remedies such as bicarbonate of soda and maple syrup, high-dose vitamin C, colloidal silver, and nano-particle curcumin, among others.One week after arrival, which included my first round of “low dose” chemo (60% of usual), the shrinkage was dramatic, down to 7.7 x 4.1 cm (3.0 x 1.6 in.), which made it the size of a lemon. Now, today, one week after that measurement, it has reduced more, down to 5.5 x 3.2 cm (2.16 x 1.26 in.), the size of an apricot. This means that in the five weeks since its discovery, my tumor has lost roughly 65% of its original intimidating size!!! Furthermore, in every test so far my lymph nodes in my armpits and on both sides of my groin remain clear of dispersal from the main tumor. Needless to say, this is all extremely good news. The bad news is that I’m running out of time here, at least for my first 3-week session, and Dr. Weber wants to send me out with the proverbial bang. He says that I definitely need at least one more round of chemo, but because I have responded so well to the first round of “low dose,” he feels comfortable offering me Round Two at an even more reduced level, down to 40% of normal. He thinks that will create an impact roughly equivalent to a dose of 60% because in every measurement they can make for my body, it is humming like the proverbial ten-penny finishing nail hit with a greasy ballpeen hammer. The theory—and it’s only a theory—is that because my internal organs are in such outstanding shape, maybe their “sludge free” quality allowed the 60% chemo to hit me extra hard, maybe equivalent to 80%, in that range. So now he’s comfortable with 40% as a dose that will work well for me and still attack my tumor very hard. And I know you’re wondering, as I was, what is the lowest possible dose of chemo? He said below 30% would be a waste of effort. Thus, it looks like Thursday night I’ll be driving the porcelain bus again, but apparently for a good cause and with good reason. As long as I can feel it’s necessary to achieve total remission, I can tolerate having to go through it again.I was not the only person today to get a fateful ultrasound. Richard, whom I discussed in a previous blog, was diagnosed with multiple tumors throughout the vital organs in his torso. Like Brian, who I also discussed in a previous blog, he was handed a death sentence by mainstream U.S. doctors at two of the most prestigious cancer centers we have. In Richard’s case, he was given 18 months, max. He is now in his 15th month, and for the second time his cancer is undetectable via ultrasound, which is reliable down to a few millimeters. But this does not mean he is finished with his treatment.Richard will continue to blast his liver’s tumor area with hyperthermia (heat treatment) until he leaves next Monday, the same day I leave. He said he doesn’t care if the heat burns a hole in his liver, he wants to make sure that cancer spot is vanished, vaporized, vamoosed forever. And while I’m at it, let me explain the varying scales of heat on the hyperthermia machine. We all discuss and compare our “numbers.” Richard takes a very high dose at 110 watts, because he’s a veteran and can tolerate it. I started as most people do, at 30, and the staff gradually works you up as your body adjusts. I’m up to 60 today and will tack another 5 points on it the next time. I’ll end next Monday at around 80, return to where I’m staying in London for three weeks, then come back here for the last week in September to establish where my tumor is at that point (hopefully vanished, vaporized, vamoosed forever!), and to decide if I need a third round of “extra-low-dose” chemo to wipe out all vestiges of the Monster.It’s a long, twisting road full of bumps and jostles, but I remain confident I’ll arrive safely in the end.Lloyd PyeKlinik MarinusBrannenburg, GermanyAugust 19, 2013 Day #16 at Marinus—A Day Here In A Bit Of DetailIn blogs #2 and #3, I discussed some of the routine here. Unfortunately, everything came at me so fast, and it was all so new to me, I was unable to describe it as clearly as I can now, so I’m going to take another run at it. In this one I’ll tell you what the experience of a day here at Marinus is like.First, some background. The Klinik is owned and operated by Herr Doctor Axel Weber and his wife, Frau Doctor Petra Weber (seen in the photo with a patient). Vivienne says he reminds her of a cross between Peter Ustinov and Benny Hill, which I think is fair. He’s certainly a marvelous character who, everyone on the staff agrees, is extremely fortunate to have a Frau like Petra. Her quietly unassuming manner is as integral to the smooth functioning of this place as is his cheerful exuberance. The Klinik was a “Gasthaus” (guesthouse, or small hotel) renovated in 2000. After 13 years of full-time use, everything in it presents a feeling of new and sparkling. In typical German fashion, the staff keeps everything tidy, and the way they all handle the medical equipment in the treatment rooms projects supreme competence and control. The patient rooms where we stay are immaculate and cleaned every day, and the dining room is flawlessly maintained. The food is invariably topnotch, though not what many patients would be eating at home.Vegetables and salads dominate, though meats, carbohydrates, and even sweets are never absent. You’re allowed to choose how much or little you wish to eat of most things at each meal. Menus are printed daily for lunch and dinner in the language of every patient (the staff keeps track), so we all know what is available at any meal. If the menu has nothing you like, you can make special orders like scrambled eggs on toast, or a sandwich of some kind. The chefs are as accommodating as possible. Lunch always has a meat offering and a vegetarian offering, which you choose at lunch the previous day. Lunch is the “big” meal here. Breakfast is fairly light, and dinner is equally light. Much of what is served here comes directly from the adjacent farm owned by the Klinik. All of our eggs are from chickens there, as is the milk, raw and directly from the cows. Tonight we had Greek salads for dinner, and one wag quipped that the feta cheese must surely have come directly from the fetas living at the farm. And, of course, the occasional waft of distinctive farm odors must be dealt with, but that’s a small price to pay for proximity to such healthy organic foods and herbs.A note about breakfast: We are urged—but not required—to eat a small portion of “The Budwig Protocol” daily. Developed by a German biochemist named Johanna Budwig, it does not sound appetizing. It is a combination of small-curd cottage cheese and top quality flaxseed oil blended into a mix that can easily be read about if you Google her name. It is supposed to supercharge every cell in your body to make it function as it should. Most people here do take it, and I am no exception. I have come to enjoy it very much because it can be mixed with chopped fruit and sprinkled with finely chopped nuts. Not too far from starting your day with an ice cream sundae. Yummm!When it comes to treatments, shots come first. Thymus shots are every day, so get used to that. Every other day we get various loads of vitamins and mistletoe. Invariably at night as you prepare for bed, you’ll remove your clothes and find small shot-covering bandages still on your arm or cheeks. The good news is that every nurse here is A+, and they care for every patient as if we were a friend or relative. Either Dr. Weber chooses his staff for this trait of caring, or they are very well trained to present cheerful smiling faces and attitudes at all times. The staff here is as good as it can be.After shots you can figure out the best way to do the “flexible” daily treatments. If you see an open slot at any of them, you ask if you can take it. If you can, you begin. All of them are 20 minutes at a pop, except the liver packs, which are hot packs that stay on for a half-hour, and hyperthermia, which runs for an hour and which is always tightly scheduled in your “blue book.” As I’ve said before, you’re never late for hyperthermia because they keep to the schedule for it, and we all consider it far and away the most important treatment we get here. We know it is.Another important treatment, “infusions,” is also scheduled but not as tightly because the process can’t be held to a timer. You lay on one of three adjacent beds and a nurse “sticks” a vein in your arm, from which your blood will flow through a thin plastic tube into a pint-sized bottle. When the bottle is about half full, it is infused with ozone and oxygen, then the bottle is hung up on a pole beside your bed and your oxygenated/ozonated blood drains back into you in about 10 minutes. When that finishes, a pint bottle of liquid vitamin C, or a combination of other vitamins, is hung up on the pole and another 10 minutes or so passes as that drains into you.These two treatments are every other day, as are two others of less importance—massages and detox foot baths. You keep track of your treatments by consulting the “blue book” you’re given when you arrive. It has a schedule for every day of the three weeks you’ll be here, and every day shows which treatments you should have, and when (if they are scheduled). Everything else is catch-as-catch-can.Magnetic field is a plum-sized delivery device that pulses magnetic waves into your tumor(s) for 20 minutes. It is supposed to disrupt the tumor’s metabolism, which is different from normal cells that are not impacted by the magnetic waves. To get this treatment you sit upright in a chair while the device is adjusted to be held directly above your tumor, or your worst tumor if you have several. You feel nothing while this is happening. Mostly I read during it. Your next stop might be the bio-mat, which is a bed designed to help align the magnetic fields of your body. (Don’t laugh, these are absolutely proven to be there and are responsive to positive realignments.) While on this bed you also have a one-use-only plastic tube put into your nose so you can breathe pure oxygen for another 20 minutes. Before you can lay on it, though, you have to take all metal off your body. It’s very much like going through the screening process at an airport.Next comes what I immediately dubbed “the jiggle belt,” which they call “undulating massage.” It’s a table you lie on that has heating and jiggling pads under your calves, heating and jiggling pads just below your shoulder blades, and a big fat ovoid jiggling belt cinched across your abdomen. All three areas can vibrate in various ways and at various speeds, depending on what your needs might be. I have lymphoma cancer, so I get the full Monty, with vibrations in the belt, under my calves, and in the upper part of my back, all meant to stir my lymph system into action. Another 20 minutes of reading is normal during this.Those are the trio that, like the shots, we all do every day—magnetic field, bio-mat with oxygen, and jiggle belt. Then you might also have a half-hour massage (mostly back massages to get your lymph moving and to help move dying cancer cells out of your body), or sometimes, if you are interested, some foot reflexology, which is surprisingly effective in finding “problem” areas in your body. I had it done and am glad I did. The “liver pack” is another daily treatment, usually taken in your room, but sometimes as you lay on one of the tables in the treatment rooms. It’s just a large hot-pack placed across your abdomen for 30 minutes, all part of the heat therapy Germany cancer clinics are known for. And last are the 20-minute detox foot baths, which I still doubt are all they’re cracked up to be, but I do them when my blue book calls for it. For all I know it actually does work as advertised….but I’m not convinced.The Big Kahuna here is hyperthermia, which I’ve talked about extensively already, so that concludes our day in the life of a patient at Klinik Marinus. I do hope if anyone reading this ever gets a cancer diagnosis, you’ll keep this place in mind, or places like it, and know that you have extremely viable options that can easily save your life without the devastating side-effects of mainstream treatments.Tomorrow we’ll discuss costs for these treatments…..Lloyd PyeKlinik MarinusBranenburg, GermanyAugust 20, 2013 Day #17 at Marinus—How Much Does Cancer Cost?Today I want to discuss the finances of alternative versus traditional treatment of cancer. First, though, I should add another good report regarding my condition. In an earlier blog I mentioned that my “free radical” count was waaayyy out of line from what it should be, meaning my blood was not nearly as oxygenated as it should be. We’ve been working on that since I got here, and today’s results were promising. My first reading the day I started treatments was 394, with over 400 being not where anyone needs to be, though a nurse told me they have seen readings in the high hundreds. Below 230 is good, and 231 to 310 is average. Today my reading was 302, meaning on the high side of average. Not nearly as good as I’d like it to be, though I intend to keep moving it downward. Still, going from 394 to 302 in 16 days is definitely an achievement worth noting. I also received my blood-work report in anticipation of tomorrow’s second round of chemo (40% of the usual mainstream dose). Everything still shows the effects of the first round of chemo, all of the numbers are a bit lower than they should be, though perfectly understandable and acceptable at this point. The object is to kill the cancer and then let my other body systems and organs recover at their own pace. Not the way I’d choose to have this working out, but it’s the best I can hope for right now.Now let’s discuss the cost of this kind of alternative treatment versus mainstream treatment at the hands of Big Cancer and Big Pharma. When all is said and done, my expenses to get to and from here and do what has to be done will be right at $25,000 USD. This is why I needed donations to be here. I live on the proverbial shoestring that never accounts for sudden needs the size of this one.If I were to be treated at home in Florida, my first round of chemotherapy treatments would have totaled in the range of $80,000. I was slated for 6 to 8 rounds of what is called “R-CHOP,” which is an acronym for the five—yes, count ‘em, five—chemo drugs I would have received per treatment. (Here I’m given only three of those five.) The “R” part of the “R-CHOP” supposedly costs $5,000 per dose, so I would have been looking at $30,000 to $40,000 with that one drug alone. The good news for me is that I’m eligible for Medicare as of this year, so for me this cancer could not have appeared at a more ideal time. If it had appeared two years ago, before I was eligible for Medicare, I would have been as blowed-up as a blowed-up peckerwood can be. I had NO health insurance (how many of us do?), and even if I did have it, I’m sure it would have been a life-and-death struggle to squeeze full payments out of my insurance company. Maybe some of you reading this have gone through the insurance nightmare, or know someone who has.Okay, so let’s say my total bill for my first 6 to 8 rounds of chemotherapy in the U.S. had indeed been $80,000. If so, then my 20% Medicare co-payment would have left me with a bill of $16,000 out of my pocket, which hasn’t seen $16,000 of daylight since I worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood back in the 1980s, before I went full-time with my career in Alternative Knowledge. (And now I’m adding another genre of knowledge to go along with aliens, UFOs, hominoids, and Intervention Theory!)Seen in that light, $16,000 is a lot cheaper than $25,000. However, if I hadn’t been eligible for Medicare the $25,000 I’m spending here would be a tremendous bargain against $80,000. But now we come to where the proverbial rubber meets the road. It’s very likely I’ll have to make only two or three visits here to Klinik Marinus before I’m cleared for good, and each of those follow-ups can be for one week, two weeks, or three weeks, depending on how I’m doing. Three of the sharpest people I’ve met here are all back for their second round of three weeks—Richard, Brian, and Berezina, whom I haven’t mentioned before but who is another survivor of “Big Cancer” in the U.S., coming here as a last resort and finally digging her way out of the deep hole of despair they put her in. Same with Brian and Richard, both of whom were given no chance to live. When it comes to your life, $50,000 seems cheap at twice the price, doesn’t it? It does to them.As happens with most mainstream patients, I’m highly confident my cancer would have returned at some point after my initial treatment. That’s what cancer treatment in the U.S. does. It gives you a degree of extended time in which your cancer is SUPPRESSED, but it is almost never ELIMINATED. Why? Because mainstream treatment does NOTHING to “fix” what went wrong with your body to allow the cancer to set up in it and take root. They never “drain the swamp,” so to speak.What’s the point of removing cancer down to the nub it grew from when, like a living tree stump, it can send out new shoots and flourish in other places around the body? It is devastatingly destructive to the vast majority of cancer victims, but we must never forget that the core purpose of Big Cancer and Big Pharma is TO AVOID HEALING! Their business model requires the yearly harvesting of a new crop of about 500,000 souls in the U.S., and 7,000,000 souls around the world, or they can’t stay as fat and happy as they are by pretending what they’re doing is actually GOOD for you instead of an almost guaranteed trip to the cemetery in the next few years.How many separate rounds of treatment—sometimes years apart—will they need to kill you? Always hard to say, but three to four is average. After three to four rounds of heavy chemo and/or radiation, you might as well be dead. Your immune system is totally shot to hell, so you’re then much more likely to die from new illnesses related to the “cure” than from the original disease. And how much has it cost you? Three times $80,000 is $240,000 and four times is $320,000. So now we reach the bottom line for this evening’s discussion.You can pay a facility like Klinik Marinus $25,000 or even $50,000 out of pocket—or the pockets of family and friends if, like me, you need a lot of help in a genuine crisis situation—and they have a very good chance to cure you relatively quickly and easily, as you’re seeing in my case. But if I had gone through the Big Cancer/Big Pharma catastrophe prior to coming here, my odds of quick and easy success would have been greatly diminished.If instead you sign up for the full mainstream cancer treatment, they will soak you (or, ideally from their perspective, Medicare or Medicaid because the government ALWAYS pays its bills) for about $250,000 more or less, before it takes your life. And I’m not being callous here, or deliberately one-sided. Check the statistics for yourself. This IS how dismally horrible the mainstream results tend to be. Not in every case, we have to acknowledge that, but in the MAJORITY of cases, and perhaps even in the VAST majority of cases, the results are a long bout of continuing physical debilitation until death gets you off the hooks flayed into you by Big Cancer and Big Pharma.Lloyd PyeKlinik MarinusBrannenburg, GermanyAugust 21, 2013
