barryboomer

I love your sarcasm. No apologies necessary for ranting!! Thanks for answering my questions. Angela

Thanks! I do talk to his RN who is due to come today and she makes sure he gets the Morphine. I so hate to see him in any pain be it physical or mental. But my husband and I don't have the POA medically or legally but I go every day to check on him.
I am worried that if he doesn't get the med right then well it might make him go to a nursing home.

Please help me with getting on a nutritional eating and supplements. I don't get all the stuff from chrisbeatcancer but would appreciate your help. aw silverstar ya hoo com. If you put the words together and put the dots in you can forward information. I want to start this now. I got to heal from this. No one in my family has this and I want to survive it. Chemo has been horrible and radiation has fried me. I can't take it anymore.

Thanks Barry...I will keep you and your journey in my thoughts. I am sending healing thoughts and wish you well...

Hi boomer. I read something you wrote a short while back where you said you had some sort of rash or itchies. You need to adjust your food intake to address this issue, if you will allow me to suggest. Add fermented foods. Try kimchi or unpasteurized sauerkraut or a portion of natto. You can simply eat more cabbage which acts to increase the good gut bacteria whether you juice it, chop it up raw, or make a soup out of it. Cabbage simply doesn't much care what you do to it just as long as you eat it. Also please add more sprouts. In with good flora which pushes back and crowds out the not so good bacteria from your guts. Best wishes

How are you doing? I know you give us advice on juicing and the like and you care a lot. Are you cancer free? Your advice is golden.

Barry, I don't always agree with you, but I like you--you're honest and have good sense. Me, I push people away in many ways.

Great ideas - thanks for the suggestions!

Been considering a Bullet for my Mom so that she can start drinking fruit, vegetable and supplement smoothies. My husband and I have a NutriBullet and it's Awesome. Wish we would have started sooner for her and myself but better late than never, I guess. Thanks Barry :-)

Hi Barry - I was told you know a lot about chinese herbs? Do you have any experience with solanum incanum, astragalus, ganoderma, cordonopsis or golden root? We have tried some herbs from Taiwan to help my husband recover from chemotherapy. Any help would be great thanks and god bless. MM

Hi Barry. I saw that you posted in answer to another question about having a PET scan. . .how did you make out? I know they were following some hot spots with you. I'm hoping everything is good and that plant diet is making a difference

will you post smoothie drinks for those who dont eat breakfast

Thanks! That's an excellent idea, so simple yet I never thought of it.

Thanks for the wall message. Wish I could try your diet but I have trouble with bowel obstruction and raw food is a no-no. You do have me thinking though about other ways I could improve my diet. I've definitely been eating crappy food. So, thanks again. And, BTW, I love Sebring, FL!

Hi barryboomer ... I listened to your song when you posted it a while ago ... I enjoyed it very much .... I'm a songwriter also.

Hi Barry, I went to the dentist yesterday. He really checked my mouth. U know how they advertise these calcium supplements where you get it through IVs once a year? He says that it causes necrosis of the lower jaw. There have been more than a few women here that had to have their lower jaws sawed off. He was curious, because I'm not showing any calcium problems-and he thought I might be doing that. Anyway- I told him a bone scan before radiation showed density and brittleness to be like a 36- 44 year-old woman- I'm 72 and lift weights- There's a lot to be said for weight bearing exercises. You talk a lot to people about food and things that help a person, so I wanted to share this with you. a 90 year old woman in a wheelchair can work with a one pound weight,

Hi BB.Ty for the message.Well im sure its a combo of everything i went thru and well im sure it will get better with time.Take care and hope all is well with you

I got the book so will take a.look. yes, my B12 was so low I had daily injections now I get them weekly. I thought going vegan would make me feel better. It did not! So when the doctor expressed concern about not enough protein I went back to eating mostly chicken. I do eat nuts and seeds bit did not tolerate whey protein. Good luck to you. I am glad you found what works for you.

Hi, Glad to hear you are doing so well. Very interesting information you are passing on to others. Best of luck

Question Barry . . . . How do you get enough protein? I do eat lots of fruits and veggies but eat cheese, yogurt and eggs for the protein. I did a stint as a vegan for a bit but after blood work my doctor said my protein was not sufficient. I don't do red meet but will eat chicken, Turkey and on rare ocassions fish.

Thank you for the info Barryboomer! We will give it a try (this after eating a big breakfast at the Lumber Inn of eggs, toast, and everything else that is bad for us). How did you know what things to take when? Does any of this come from a book or a health food store? Don't know if this can help my husband's brain mets, but boosting his immune system is bound to be good for him.

Thanks, barryboomer! Well, I guess we'll have to stop the political talk on this site. It is, after all, a cancer-related site. I'll just gnash my teeth and swear against the mofos on OTHER (FB) sites! Hang in there! Best, Carool

Hi Barry, Are you under the care of a holistic Dr also? ? I know you're big on plant based. . .my Dr swears by Dynamic Greens and just wanted to share with you.

I totally agree with you on the horrible health care situation here in US. It is such a shame that some going through cancer also face financial devastation.

Barry, evidence of cancer has been found in fossils. Cancer cells are brilliant at evading the human immune system. I am sceptical about the worth of anti-cancer supplements - for me, that is; I'm not saying that they may be good, but I wouldn't trust them to eradicate cancer inside me. For that, I would seek traditional, Western-medical help (which I did). Should I ever get metastases of my breast cancer, and should traditional medical help be fruitless, I might explore other ways. Best to you, Barry - Carool

should say "had not"

barryboomer I'm not offended by your post. Five years ago the drops were exactly what we did for my mom who was in the last days of her life after a long battle with breast cancer (IBC). Then the last few hours I was directed to give more. I have to say, it took me years to get over the notion that I had killed my mom. But I know my dad was waiting for her and God finally took her.

I saw a comment you made regarding nutritional choices you've made since your cancer experience. What kinds of things do you eat to improve your immune system?

Barry: Did little writing this cold winter morning in Wisconsin and wanted to share. -Regards, Robert


“Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to go now”, sings Kenny Chesney. We spend most of our lives avoiding direct thoughts of our own passing, let alone that of others. The wonder of our existence, the miracle that we are here, feeling so alive; we have a hard time accepting that it will end. But, as we all know, our life as we know it here will end.
It seems quite natural that we, who are diagnosed with a fatal disease, have difficulty dealing with our finite existence. But why should we? What did we expect? How much time do we think we deserve? Everyone wants more of everything they enjoy. But ‘more’ is not always on the menu.
The miracle of our existence is our greatest innate pleasure. It’s natural not to want to lose it. Many of us don’t have to deal with the eminent. We kiss a bus or fall off a cliff or take a path, which unknowingly and abruptly takes us from this place without any thought at all. We raise horses. Any day, a hoof from a 1200 pound animal could end my existence. As morbid as those thoughts may be, they feel like a blessing to those of us facing imminent death from our diagnosed illness. The subject of our own demise is something we wake up thinking about every day. God bless those who haven’t had to deal with this and God bless those of us that do, even more…please.
I have terminal lung cancer. It will kill me, if I live that long. I could still kiss a bus. Having to face this fact of our finite existence is difficult at best but do able. What we are faced with are our decisions, given the facts of our diagnosis. The co-existing, eminent fact is we are still here, alive, creating, producing, loving, and being loved.
We, the terminally diagnosed, can choose how we deal with our reality. We can feel cheated that our time will fall short of our expectations. We can feel sad for all the experiences we wish we had but won’t. We can be devastated by our inability to continue caring for those we love and will leave behind to fend for their selves. The one common factor between all of those thoughts and dealings is they are debilitating to our being alive, creating, producing, and loving. In my opinion, any of these or other negative thoughts we employ will hasten our demise.
I believe the road to extending what time we have remaining and making the best of it lies within our maintaining a positive attitude. Granted, it may not extend our time. Who knows? I don’t know if you and I exist on the same plane of consciousness, so I surely don’t have any answers beyond my opinions and educated guesses. But I surmise that not focusing on our imminent demise and carrying on with a positive and aggressive lifestyle will best serve the quality of our remaining time in this existence.
The question has been raised as to how we deal with the emotional pain, sorrow, and disappointment of the reality of our shortened life. We deal with it through the choices we are in command of. When I was first told of my death sentence from SCLC, I cried and cried; thinking in a rapid blur about all that I wanted to do in this life but haven’t accomplished yet; thinking of all those loved ones I will leave behind, no longer able to try and add to their lives and try to help ease their burdens. For me, that crying only lasted for one day. Granted, I have revisited my negative thoughts at times. But each time I do, it is a much smaller amount of time than I had spent on it before.
I woke up the second day after diagnosis immersed in the joy that today arrived. I left my self-pity behind with yesterday. I chose not to waste my time remaining by debilitating myself. I am still faced with all I would like to do before I go; but instead of allowing that to cripple me, I choose to make the best of my time here. I now deal more with a sense of urgency for my future actions and having to deal with the greater weight of the priorities I will choose. This is troublesome; but not debilitating; in fact, inspiring.
The simplest things can be the hardest to deal with; the simple fact that I’m dying, the simple fact that everyone else is dying, the simple fact that “that’s just the way it is” (Bruce Hornsby). And my feeling bad about it isn’t going to change a thing. That simple fact, I know.
Will having a positive attitude and doing all I can to get the best out of myself in what time I have left extend my time here? I doubt it. But I’m pretty sure it won’t shorten it. I’ve always found that choosing an option that at the very least will break even and even possibly win is far better than choosing a loser.
As I see it, we have every reason to keep positive, active, creative, producing, loving, and being loved. We have every reason for waking each day with praise for its arrival. We were never promised anything more than we have gotten. We aren’t owed anything. If we feel life has fallen short for us, we need to realize that that thought is self-fabricated and has little warrant. We might just as soon presume we should be dead by now, for all the missed directions we’ve taken, all the mistakes we’ve made, and all the errors we were responsible for. Given the latter, I’m amazed and thankful for being allowed the time to write this article, live today, and accomplish something more before I go.
The simple fact is, we know today is here. We can only remember the events of time past; not do anything to change them. We can only guess at the events that will take place in time future. We can anticipate potential possibilities but do nothing to guarantee events will occur in a specific manner. There are no guarantees. The only thing we know we have complete control over is how we think and act now, in the present. Only what we choose to do now will affect how we and others around us feel now.
My life depends on the choices I make. Your life depends on the choices you make. We do ourselves a disservice, if we waste our remaining time in disappointment of life’s imminent end; just because we, the diagnosed, have been given a “head’s up”. We can only gain by trying to get the most out of each day that comes. My advice is don’t debilitate or destroy your remaining life with the negative. Leave your regrets of past events in that same time zone. Instead, think about all the positive possibilities in your time remaining. And more importantly, act on them today…and tomorrow if it comes…and the day after that; possibly “ad infinitum”, if you choose to be as positive as, I believe, we can.

well said!