Thinking About What I Wrote In 2007

My acquiescence of the early days didn't last long--it seemed so much like surrendering to the disease, like sitting around waiting to die. I won't say I've never been cowed into doing something I didn't want to do, but it's always  shamed me--even when I was little and was intimidated by my brutal father.

But what could I do? What I did was read everything I could find on what a layman could do to improve his chances of living through and getting past cancer. While none of my doctors supported my enthusiasm for what a change of diet could do for me, I cut back, almost to the point of elimination, on red meat and sugar, began to meditate regularly, ate lots of green veggies and drank green tea by the bucket. Three books: Anti Cancer, Foods That Fight Cancer and The China Study, I believe helped save my life. If nothing else changing my diet made me feel like I was doing something, that I had joined the battle.

By the way, I was diagnosed as stage IV by that summer which decreased considerably my chance of living 5 years. I read recently that the author of Anti Cancer, David Servan-Schreiber once answered the charge that he promoted false-hope by saying he was only trying not to promote false-hopelessness.

Dr. Servan-Schreiber died in June of 2011. But it took twenty years for the cancer get the best of him-- Twenty years for the brain cancer that ordinarily kills in about ten percent of that time. 

Anyway,  we have another day and we have to decide how to live it. I believe I can remain positive for the rest of today. Hope you can to.