Remission Has Begun!

Friday September 20th, 2013

I would like to thank you for your support and prayers.

The radiation treatment ended on August 6th. Everything went great and the doctors are not expecting any long term side effects from any of the treatments. My hair is growing back, but the radiation site on the left side of my neck may take a couple of months before the hair grows back.

I went back to the doctor on September 20th and I had a PET scan on Sept 9th. All signs of Lymphoma are gone and I can start my remission period over the next 3-5 years. In 5 years if there are still no signs of the lymphoma I can consider myself Cancer-Free.

This isn’t a joke and I’ve learned a lot from this experience. I hope that you have as well.

This disease doesn’t play around. During my second cycle of chemo I was told about a guy I used to work with that just found out he had cancer. He passed away before I finished my 3rd cycle of chemo. 

Sometimes we can catch these things early if we listen to our bodies and schedule routine doctor visits. Other times we aren’t so lucky. Cancers can be very aggressive and do a lot of damage in a short period of time that can greatly reduce the treatment options that may be available.

I know that there are some people that are mad at me for pushing them aside. It wasn’t something that I wanted to do, but it had to be done. This was a war, a battle and I chose to only have a few people closest to me during that time. This is what got me through with such ease.Thank you for your understanding and please accept my apologies if your feelings were hurt.

I would like to thank everyone at work that supported me and made working through treatment like it was just another day. Everyone that shared their story with me helped me better understand what I was going through and gave me more contrast to compare.

Now I’ll see my Oncologist every 3 months for up to 2 years. That may change if things change. 

I will continue to do Tong Ren with Tom Tam and improve my ability in Tai Chi Dao Yin and Pi-Gu. The key thing to Tong Ren and the Dao Yin that most people don’t understand is Bioelectricity. I know, not just because I understand electricity, but because I’ve felt the generation of my own bioelectricity during my Dao Yin and Pi-Gu exercises.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman has a great diet plan that I can make work to my advantage and slowly I can change my diet so it enables my body to fight disease better.

So, over the next 5 years I’ve got a lot of work to do to assure myself that health wise I don’t create more problems for my body to manage.

I’ll try to keep updating this blog as I go through the rest of this journey.

Anthony