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"Plan on being an exceptional responder...." Glen Sabin who cured himself of incurable CLL

https://glennsabin.com/the-power-of-words-oncologists-attitudes-statistics-hope/ When I was originally diagnosed with incurable cancer 27 years ago, it was my primary care doc who—before HIPAA privacy was a thing in the U.S.—told my father that I, a newly married twenty-eight year old at that time, had six months to live. Six. Months. To. Live. Not five, not fifteen. Six. Brilliant mind; how did he know?  He could have said six months until death; the statement ends up meaning the same thing. Back then, it was common for physicians, especially treating oncologists, to assign a number or range on how long a patient had left on the planet.  In diagnosing an advanced or otherwise life-limiting, so-called terminal disease, they also became the deciders of life expectancy. Back in 2012, Sweden’s esteemed Karolinska Institutet  published a paper  that looked at a large amount of data, across a number of institutions comprising 500,000 newly diagnosed cancer patients. The study
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And I WILL Breathe

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Tonight I am reading about Platelets. I am remembering The dire stories I have read Over the years. People stumbling out of hospitals With their IV poles. -- I am reading about patients Who say Your way, Your energy Speaking of dance. Akron Porch Rokr Festival, Aug 2017 Your something Doesn't speak to me. Bye-Bye. - They go off on their own And they find Healing For things  said to be "incurable." - Maybe part of the antidote lies in stepping away. - I know this is part of my journey. - In my last poem, I talk about What will be, will be In this poem, I want it clear That I intend to Live to be in my 100s. - Only prob: life can't always be the Outcome. Too much focus on outcome Leaves one grasping too tight. Grasping is not good. But is leaning toward outcome OK? Still figuring this one out. Hm. It's an interesting Dance. -
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Steps to Raising Platelets

From the Platelet Disorder Association. I spoke the founder several years ago. She was on her deathbed several times. Walked out of the hospital and found the cure for herself. It was not drugs. https://www.pdsa.org/products-a-publications/diet-a-lifestyle-info.html Diet Information In our  Survey of Non-Traditional Treatments in ITP  about 40% of the responders reported some improvement in their bleeding symptoms and their platelet count with either the macrobiotic diet or the diet recommended in Eat Right for Your Type by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo. Less success was reported for the Atkins and Zone diets, high protein, low carbohydrate diets. The recommendations listed in this article are based on principals from the macrobiotic and “Eat Right” diet, general nutritional research and research linking the impact of diet changes on other diseases that have common features with ITP. If you would like to implement some of the diet changes listed in this article, please mak
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One person's story of getting platelets up

https://www.pdsa.org/join-the-community/personal-stories/item/130-meditation-breathing-diet--more.html I have always been a very healthy person. I’m one of those people who wildly loves the work I do. Of course, that means that I used to have trouble saying no to the great new opportunities and challenges that came my way…so I didn’t. I did much more than was genuinely healthy. I say all this because I feel that (even though my western doctors denied a relationship) it all lead up to what happened to me in June (2003). One day I was taking a large group of kids hiking (filling in for a friend on top of my own work and maxing myself out far too much)…and noticed when I got back that I was covered with small freckle like things all over my arms. I was confused by it at the time and basically I tried to deny being too alarmed, so I just wrote it off as “weird.” I had small bruises all around my shoulders under my backpack straps. I asked people what it was – was it chicken po
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Poems of Prayers and Presence March 15, 2018

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Going to the Oncologist Office, March 15, 2018 ——— Cold blue sky day Beautiful drive on back roads to West Akron Bundle of books with me Kim’s Mary Oliver Elizabeth’s book club book about slavery Thomas Merton’s book on Tao. Always the books, my companions. - And my cameras. I have my cameras   In case   An angel white cloud hovers over a church In just the right way. Or I see a Barn. - I have been in touch with my posse this morning.   Love and support accounted for. ~ And now here And it's a pretty building. And the secretary is kind, ah thank goodness. We make chit-chat about the flu Seidman Cancer Center, thank goodness a pretty and unassuming building , How her scanner attaches to her computer “When it works, it’s great." - The nurse calls me back. “Debra-Lynn,” she says. “Thank you for calling me Debra-Lynn!” “Well, there is the hyphen.” “Not everybody sees,” I say. - Kinda sterile Like a Holoca
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