Hi Everyone,

The side story of Aqa Aakhu’s experience at the Oasis of Hope has been diagnosing the cause of the hemolytic anemia and dehydration side effects of the treatment. When we arrived at the hospital the pre-treatment hemoglobin level was normal, about 12.3 grams. During this trip, with each treatment her hemoglobin count dropped about 2 grams and this is after the menadione was removed, the Vitamin C reduced and the ozone modified. Our primary oncologist there, Dr. Carbajal, came up with an excellent idea. He would test Aqa Aakhu’s blood with each element of the in-hospital treatment individually: Ozone, Perftec (blood oxygen carrier), Vit C and Menadione. Surprisingly, the menadione had very little effect. The ozone had even less. The vit C was the culprit. The hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) reaction caused by the high dose vitamin C was causing Aqa Aakhu’s red blood cells to break apart. Her red blood cells at least, seem to be low in catalase and/or glutathione making them unable to detoxify the H2O2 reaction.

This was proven later by one of the trademark effects of hemolysis, dark urine. Aqa Aakhu’s urine became as dark as Coca Cola everytime she received treatment at the Oasis of Hope. During the previous 2 trips there, her urine as completely dark by day 3 accompanied by vomiting, weakness and lack of appetite. With the modifications made to the treatment, her urine didn’t become completely dark until day 6 and 3 vit C treatments. She was eating, active and without nausea during the first 5 and a half days. Once Aqa Aakhu’s hemoglobin level reached 8 grams, we decided to discontinue the treatment while she was still feeling well. This was Monday morning, her last treatment was Sunday night. (It was after the second trip to Oasis that AqaAakhu passed out on the plane with a hemoglobin level of 4. She left NYU hospital after her hemoglobin level went over 7 grams, so we felt it was best to stay above that number.) Throughout all of this Aqa Aakhu was feeling well. We thought we had made all of the appropriate adjustments to limit the side effects and were planning to leave the hospital Monday night.

By late afternoon Monday Aqa Aakhu was beginning to feel weak and by the evening she was feeling nauseous. The doctors had left for the day so we decided to stay the night and see how she felt in the morning. I also ordered some IV protein for her to take that night. The IV protein had helped Aqa Aakhu tremendously during the first trip. By morning the nauseousness was gone and Aqa Aakhu felt stronger. However, we discovered that after being active for 20-30 minutes she would begin to feel light-headed. We had already made arrangements to stay in a hotel Tuesday night and were planning for her to rest prior to flying out of San Diego. Tuesday afternoon we left the hospital.

Now if you have never crossed the US/Mexico border coming back into the United States let me tell you about it. You get in a line of cars that moves at a snail’s pace and eventually becomes a ten lane or so wide field of hundreds of cars belching carbon monoxide (CO). Of course, carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas. The housing code now requires landlords to install carbon monoxide detectors b/c it kills silently. Carbon monoxide enters the blood faster than oxygen. That’s part of what makes it so deadly. To top it all off, we were in the bus lane. There’s only one bus lane and it moves 10x slower that the car lanes. The border patrol agents require that everyone get off the bus so that they can personally search the vehicle, including the engine. Crossing the border like this you can spend 2-4 hours in line. You can imagine that someone with a decreased ability to carry oxygen in their blood, i.e., low hemoglobin level, would have a particularly hard time getting through this environment. There were other people in the van with us and I can tell you that everyone felt its effects. No one was talking. The line of buses was completely stopped, the van was in park and the driver was reading the newspaper. I was kind of slipping in and out of consciousness myself.

At that point Aqa Aakhu said she felt like she was going to pass out. It was GO TIME!  Oh $%^#, here we go. how will I get her out of this line? will I have to carry her inside to get oxygen? will she last that long before she’s unconscious?  I called her name and she was unresponsive. I looked at her face for the signs seen before when this happened on the plane. Fortunately, her eyes weren’t bulging and her teeth weren’t locked together. An extra 30 seconds. There was a wheelchair in the back of the van, belonged to one of the other patients (the ancestors provide). Pulled that out and lifted her out of the van into the chair. I wheeled her inside and got her on oxygen as fast as I could, soon she was fine. Long story short, we ended up in the Sharp Chula Vista hospital where she received fluids. Turned out that she was dehydrated the same as last time!  I had believed the dehydration was caused by the vomiting, turns out that it was frequent urination as well. Even I was frequently urinating at the hospital so we missed that one as an additional source of dehydration. When she received the IV nutrition it was in saline so I thought both side effects were covered, red blood cell regeneration and dehydration. Apparently it wasn’t enough to deal with crossing the border at high noon.

We made it back to NYC safely, but the rest of the details will have to wait…

Ankhner/Khalfani Mothudi, signing off!

Hi Everyone,

This is Ankhner Khikessa Mothudi, reporting to you live from Tijuana, MX!

Our first goal after arriving was to finish our conversation with the doctors concerning what went wrong the last time we were here and what to do about it. Knowing that Thurs. morning all of the doctors have a meeting and review each patient’s records and modify their treatment plan if necessary, I prepared a letter to inform them of what we felt the problem was and what we felt should be done to correct it. The night before I prayed and meditated to focus my energy on Aqa Aakhu’s treatment and what needed to be changed to make it work even better.  Let’s be really honest here. The passing out on the plane was scary and dangerous, but doesn’t compare to the dangers of chemotherapy as commonly given in the US. Often times, aggressive chemotherapy leads to a faster death that doing nothing. Once cancer metastasizes, conventional US medicine often doesn’t have any good answer, only timetables for your demise.

So Thursday morning comes and I’m writing the letter. I’m starting and stopping as I work my mind around the last 2 months, what Aqa Aakhu and I have discussed, the doctors at NYU, knowledge of the Oasis of Hope program. As often happens when meditation and prayer are involved, the ancestors/deities place a thought into your head. If you follow the thought, it leads you to wonderful places. The thought was simple. Look at the color-coded treatment plan they gave her the night before. Having prayed and meditated, I was sensitized to not let that single thought pass unheeded. As soon as I looked at the Plan, a single word leaped off the page. Menadione. The vitamin supplement formerly known as K3.

Menadione is so powerful that it’s medical use with cancer spawned a new term for cell death, Autoschizis. If you’ve never heard of it, see the links below.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12866647 
http://www.denvernaturopathic.com/autoschizis.html

Once I saw Menadione on the page, I felt and feel confident that it is the main culprit in Aqa Aakhu’s red blood cells (RBCs) dying in great numbers. Further research that morning revealed more details about what can happen with menadione and it enhancing effect on Vit C and the production of H2O2, hydrogen peroxide, and the destruction of cancer cells. A simple Google/Wikipedia search,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menadione, yields the both a description of what happened and some potential answers why. Can you say hemolytic anemia due to G6PD deficiency? More simply, hemolytic anemia means something killed your red blood cells and now you don’t have enough oxygen in your blood stream to be fully functional. We don’t know if Aqa Aakhu has the G6PD issue, but right now it is more important that we matched menadione with a description of what happened. Why is much more elusive. Even a recessive sickle cell trait could be a causitive factor.

The second issue is the hydrogen peroxide generation due to high intravenous doses of Vit C. H2O2 is known to cause RBC death if the RBCs are low in catalase and glutathione. Combined with the Menadione enhancement, the hydrogen peroxide interaction may also be the cause of Aqa Aakhu’s hemolytic anemia. The letter was one paragraph long, but took about 3 hours to write all told.

Basically, the doctors said ditto. The menadione is completely removed from the Plan, the Vit C dosage has been lowered and Aqa Aakhu’s ozone treatment has been modified for good measure. Her blood test on arrival showed normal RBC levels and tomorrow morning she’ll have a follow up test to see if there has been any negative effects on the red blood cell count so far. One of the primary effects of hemolysis, red blood cell death, is very dark brown urine. So far, we haven’t seen any so we are hopeful that the changes are going well. Also, Aqa Aakhu’s nausea and energy depletion normally occurred on the third day in conjunction with the administration of the Vit C/menadione mix. Today is the 3rd day, Friday the 13th, and with no menadione her energy was still high today. Walked around the town and bought a sweater since it’s colder in Tijauna, Mexico that it is in New York City!! 70s and overcast folks, this is just a sad sorry display of June weather in Mexico.

Khalfani/ Ankhner Mothudi

Greetings Everyone,

I know it’s been a while since I last blogged, but I’m still recuping from my last trip to Mexico.  During the last trip, I became ill again during my stay.  Unfortunately since I was only there for 6 days instead of 12 days like the first visit, I didn’t have a chance to fully recover from the treatment.  Similar to the first trip, I began feeling sick on day 3 of the treatment protocol.  When I arrived to the hospital, my doctor and I had agreed that I would not start off taking all the nutriceuticals.  I had been taking the 5 main supplements during the home treatment, so the doctor recommended that each day I was there at the hospital, that I add one more until I was taking all of them.  By day 3, I was vomiting, weak and generally miserable.  I increased my protein intake, I stopped taking all the supplements, but still day 4 came and went and day 5 came and went and I was still sick.  I figured I just needed to get the supplements out of my system.  I had mentioned to my doctor that I wasn’t feeling well and that I couldn’t keep food down, but he agreed that I probably needed to get the supplements out of my system.  Though it crossed my mind to stay a few extra days at the hospital, I was eager to get home to my babies, so we stuck to the original schedule.  I left the hospital feeling HORRIBLE!!  I was too weak to even walk to the van that took us to the airport.  That should have given us a clue that I wasn’t strong enough to travel, but I was determined to get home.

While on the plane home, I became so light-headed that I passed out.  We were blessed to have not 1, but 2 doctors aboard the plane.  Ankhner immediately had the flight attendant bring me oxygen and the doctors proceeded to check my vital signs.  It was quite a scary moment.  While unconscious, I was drawn to a brilliant light.  I recall having a conversation in my mind about going towards the light.  In a split instant I recalled that during meditations in Ausar Auset, we were instructed to guide people who are transitioning into the light.  But I wasn’t transitioning, so why was I going toward the light??  This was my conversation to myself.  Oh snap, I thought.  I’ve been watching too much television.  I can’t go towards that light.  I have to go back to my family.  I could hear my husbands voice and I was was trying to respond, but he couldn’t hear me.  At some point, I must have gone back to my body because within minutes I was conscious again and Ankhner was right there.  The doctors hooked me up to an IV for the remaining 3 hour flight.  They assumed, as did I that I was severly dehydrated.  I had not been able to consume food for several days.

When the plane arrived in New York, paramedics met me and offered to take me to a nearby emergency room.  I declined and opted instead for my husband and mother-in-law to take me to Manhattan to the NYU Medical Center.  I stayed there for the next 4 days.  They prodded and poked and tested and did more testing to find out why this had happened.  I saw a nephrologist (kidney doctor), hemotologist (blood doctor), oncologist (cancer doctor); I had several EKG tests, MRI of the brain, chest x-ray, sonogram, echocardiogram, a plethora of blood tests and was encouraged to have a blood transfusion.  I allowed them to take the tests, but I declined having a blood transfusion.  They said that somehow my red blood count was dangerously low.  They gave me three possibilities:  I was bleeding internally, my body has stopped producing red blood cells, or something was destroying the red blood cells.  After reviewing my protocol in Mexico, the doctors at NYU concluded that the Ozone Therapy was destroying my red blood cells.  I was slightly anemic and needed to take large doses of iron and folic acid.   I believed that since my body was producing red blood cells and that they had just been destroyed by the ozone — or something else in the protocol — that my body just needed a few days to build back up, so I stayed a few extra days in the hospital for monitoring and evaluation.  By the time I left the hospital, there was a marked improvement.

I’m feeling much, much better now and have discussed with Oasis of Hope what precautions we could take next time.  They recommeded that we disconinue the Ozone Therapy or lessen the amount.  I will be closely monitored during this next stay and will be under the personal care of the Head Doctor of Oncology at Oasis.  Quite honestly, destroying some of the red blood cells can’t be any worse than the effects the chemo has on the body.  While I’d rather not get sick, I’m looking at the long-term benefits of the complete treatment. 

On a sad note, the mother of one my daughters former classmates passed away this week.  She had been diagnosed with breast cancer in October of 2007, but found out in December that her cancer had metastesized to her liver and bones.  I had reached out to her on several ocassions, but she didn’t seem receptive.  I am most saddened by the fact that her 8-year-old daughter will now have to grow up without her mom.  Her daughter and family are in my prayers.

Ankhner and I will be headed to Oasis on the 10th of June for another 6 days.

Until next time……….. 

Aqa Aakhu

Hello Everyone.

Thanks to you we are here in Mexico to continue my wife’s healing journey. It’s still Wed. 4/9 here. After 3 days Aqa Aakhu is not feeling sick at all. While we were in NYC she had gotten sick again taking all of the neutraceuticals. Our doctor here, Dr. Carbajal, recommended that she cut back to the 5 most important supplements and add back one every few days until we discover which was making her ill. I am happy to report that she has added back in all but one, the boswellic acids, and hasn’t had and nausea or weakness. Today was her first day back on salsalate and there were no side effects, so we’ll give it one more day before we add the boswellic acids. The salsalate is an anti-inflammatory; cancer often inflames the tissue around the tumor and other locations in its effort to build new blood vessels and expand into new tissues. The boswellic acids are also anti-inflammatory and also have an effect on reducing the nuclear factor kappa B (NF kB) resistance of cancer to chemotherapy.
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/280/7/6170

The doctors here are also considering tamoxifen for Aqa Aakhu, which we are against unless God intervenes. Studies have shown that breast cancer is more aggressive in pre-menopausal women. The doctors feel that it may be best as a precaution for her to take tamoxifen, which will push her into early menopause. We feel that this is too extreme at this stage and intend to see how the current treatments are working before we consider taking that path.  Too often we’ve seen the fear of cancer drive people into fast and radical decisions. Even we were guilty of that. After the first surgery, we should have come to the Oasis of Hope. Instead Aqa Aakhu began taking Herceptin, which did nothing against the cancer ( it grew back to half it pre-surgery size in 6 months) AND weakened her heart. So she had a 2nd surgery in December 07. Do not make hasty decisions out of fear of cancer and death. There are quality of life issues that have to be considered after your cancer treatment is over. It’s one of the things I like best about the Oasis of Hope that this is one of their primary considerations. Check further down for the blog called “Details, Details” for more on this.

We are also reading a book recommended by Maitefa Angaza called “Radical Forgiveness”. This book is wonderful and it brings you back to viewing the difficulties in your life from a different perspective. Touches on some Maat/Sekert things if you’re familiar. Stop seeing yourself as a victim of your life (not that I do that (-:). The challenges are really opportunities to heal yourself and others.

The food is wonderful and overflowing. Have you ever had fresh strawberry juice? Get cancer, come to the Oasis of Hope and you too, and your companion of choice, can have fresh strawberry juice!  The atmosphere here is wonderfully supportive. We feel like old pros now and we’re giving out advice to the newly arrived patients and companions. Met a couple from Mauritius, off the coast of Madagascar, North Carolina, Canada. Some of our other friends from last time are here: John and Jenny from London are here this week and another couple, Larry and Suzanne, from Florida left Tuesday.

Tomorrow there is a Q&A with the doctors so I’m looking forward to that.  We were in the discussion with Dr. Contreras on monday and he mentioned that there are some expansion plans in the works. The hospital is looking to open some clinics in the US, Europe and possibly Australia.  I don’t know if they’ll include all the food and lodging, but I look forward to hearing more about it when we return in June. It’s now after 11pm local time, signing off.

Ankhner/Khalfani

Hello Everyone,

Firstly, Aqa Aakhu is doing well. We’re adjusting to being back in NYC and the fast pace that comes with it. We’re both feeling a little sluggish after 2 weeks in Mexico.  Ready? GO!!

Aqa Aakhu and I arrived back in NYC on Saturday, March 1, at about 9:30am. The following day was the funeral for a friend of ours, Ur Auat Menetert, simultaneously with dance class for a performance later this month and lastly a family of our friends, Asadullah and Akilah et al, were having a going away party b/c they are moving to New Orleans to live. By then it was Monday, time to get back to work. Aqa Aakhu didn’t really stop working while we were in Tijuana, but there was still more to do as there always is. Daycare, school, work. Suddenly it was Friday. Due to another family situation, Friday night I was on my way to Buffalo, NY with my brother Kamau headed into the Blizzard of 2008. It was only a blizzard up there by the lakes. About 18 inches of snow in 24 hours, it was like that.

Monday, Week 2 began with a car accident involving my mother and 2 youngest children in my car. Thank the Ancestors and Thank the Supreme Being that no one was hurt, including in the other car. The short story is that the offending driver was speeding in the bike lane on Bedford Ave and caused the accident when my mother was making a left turn off of Bedford Ave. I left work early and didn’t get home until almost 11pm last night. Here it is 11pm again. Still have errands to run, but I wanted to make sure folks know that we’re back in Brooklyn. Next post I’ll get back to talking about medicine and health and all that.

Ankhner/Khalfani

Hi Everyone.

If you have or know anyone taking chemotherapy, ask the oncologist if anything is being done to address the nuclear factor kappa B (NF kB) aspect of the cancer’s growing resistance to the chemotherapy. NF kB is also implicated in tumor growth through causing inflammation in the tissue surrounding the tumor. Cox-2 inhibitors have also been found to have a limiting effect on the inflammation related to cancer growth.

Selenium and aged garlic extract both act as antioxidants, but perhaps MORE importantly, they are involved in stage 2 detoxification of carcinogenic substances in the body. Meaning that once a carcinogenic substance enters the body it has to be transformed into a substance that can be excreted in the urine to get rid of it. This happens in 2 stages. Stage 1 often makes the carcinogen even more reactive before stage 2 where it is neutralized into a substance(s) that can safely travel the bloodstream and be excreted. This paragraph is moreso for people who don’t have cancer already as a preventative mechanism.

One of the biggest areas of research is the use of naturopathic compounds alongside chemotherapy and radiotherapy agents to increase their effectiveness. Below is a link that includes references to studies done internationally on the combination of therapies.
http://www.denvernaturopathic.com/news/glioblastoma.html#_edn8

Next up is a link to the Oasis of Hope Hospital’s website. This shows the fundamental aspects of the therapies used here. It is quite amazing the amount of information freely shared by the doctors. They have weekly Q&A sessions with all the patients with the Head of Research and the doctor that supervises the other doctors. They answer detailed medical questions about their therapies, about individual patients when the patient asks about his/herself, detailed explanations of each element of their system among other things.
http://oasisofhope.com/cancerhospital/clinical-services/irt.html

To close this out, I want to point out one element of a discussion had with Dr. Contreras, President of the Hospital, and all of the patients.
Dr. Contreras wanted to make a point about what is considered success in the battle with cancer and the importance of the Oasis of Hope’s philosophy of treating the patient, not treating the cancer.  Oasis of Hope Hospital currently has patients that have had cancer for over 20 years. Meaning that they have achieved a state of stabilization with the cancer within their body where the cancer is not spreading and isn’t causing any organ systems to malfunction or fail. The patients live full lives unhindered by the cancer outside of certain lifestyle changes required to achieve this effect. This is unheard of. In the US, the goal rests solely on being able to destroy the cancer. There is nothing in the conventional repertoire that is designed to or can achieve such a state.

The Hospital has found that often times efforts to kill the cancer often kill the patient as well. There are 2 philosophy statements that guide treatment here:
1. Do the body no harm.
2. Treat the patient as yourself.
This means that quality of life during and after treatment are integral parts of the treatment program. If the quality of life for the remainder of the patient’s life is severely diminished or the patient dies as a result of the cancer treatments, then the treatment has not been successful. In conventional cancer treatments this is a common result. Oftentimes, the cancer treatments themselves shorten the patients life more than the cancer alone would have. Thus, stabilization is the primary goal in the cancer treatments here. With this as the goal, most often the cancer is eliminated as well. If it is not eliminated, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. How many cancer patients would love to hear from their doctors that they have 20 years to beat the cancer that they have. Imagine how much has changed in the treatement of cancer over the last 20 years, conventional or alternative. How much more can change in the next 20 years? We don’t know, but if you have cancer wouldn’t you love to find out?

Ankhner/Khalfani

It’s been several days since I’ve felt up to blogging.  There were a few rough days there wherein I just wanted to get on a plane and come home.  I was weak, dizzy and vomiting up every meal.  We couldn’t figure out what was wrong.  They fed me intravenously and I felt a little better.  That was Saturday, but Sunday morning I woke up vomiting more.  It seemed as though I was able to keep the carrot juice down. 

Early Monday morning, Ankhner recommended that we ask the kitchen to make me a protein drink.  Later in the morning after speaking with the naturopath at University of Bridgeport to get advise on what to do, she concurred that the protein was a must.  She asked if I were continuing the regimen she had me on prior to coming to the hospital.  I informed her of the daily treatments I had been given (ozone therapy, UV radiation, Vit C, Laetrile, etc) and the neutraceuticals I was taking.  Several of the neutraceuticals she had prescribed, I was taking here at Oasis.  She thought the Laetrile was making me ill.  She recommended that I cut back on some of the neutraceuticals because perhaps my body was not processing them adequately with the other things I was doing.  

Ankhner went straight away and brought me a protein drink.  Within minutes I was feeling better.  By mid afternoon on Monday, I felt my strength slowly returning and by dinner time, I was moving around normally.  WOW!! What a world of difference a little protein made.  HUGS and KISSES for my husband!! Good looking out!

Aqa Aakhu

10am local time

Aqa Aakhu continues to feel weak, however, the nauseousness has subsided. Her doctor lowered the supplement load today, that will help if she decides to take any at all! After 4 days of this, feeling better is a high priority. The other patients and companions are asking how she’s doing every day. All the patients have good and bad days. Most of the patients have been on chemotherapy at some point in their treatment prior to coming to the Oasis of Hope. Among the companions, mostly spouses, this experience is much better than what was experienced under chemo. Not the least of the considerations is seeing the patient get better even though they feel tired or nauseous or moody. Several of the patients don’t want to eat at various points in their treatment. Yesterday we noticed that carrot juice and oatmeal stayed down. The doctors gave Aqa Aakhu some intravenous nutrition last night to make up for it. It took 8 hours for it to get into her system! Dang! Thankfully she has a port, otherwise Aqa Aakhu would be more pincushion than patient. When you come here, get your port in the US before you leave and bring 3-4 of the special “port” needles. They’re $40 here.
Ps. Ports aren’t usually good for drawing blood so expect to get pricked a few times nonetheless.

Most of my time is spent tending to Aqa Aakhu, the internet, talking with the other companions and meditating. I brought books and our mancala game too. Haven’t played yet and finished one book so far. My spanish is getting a little better now that I’m using it regularly.

Ankhner / Khalfani

Aqa Aakhu has been feeling tired the last couple of days.  She taking a lot of vitamins, nutraceuticals (powdered herbs), anti-inflammatory drugs, kemdalin, megadoses of Vit C with K3, ozone, UV light and organic food all day long.  There are just a lot of things happening in her system right now.  She just went back to sleep at 1:30pm local time. All this is very good for Aqa Aakhu. If you know her, she’s constantly movinabd rest is always prescribed for Aqa Aakhu in my book.  She’s still answering an occasional call from her clients too. Fortunately, the weekend only has nutraceuticals; hopefully this will give her system time to recover.
I’m encouraging her to walk whenever she’s feeling up to it to keep the lymphatic system moving, not to mention she’s getting breakfast, lunch and/or dinner in bed upon request. I may find out later she’s doing jumping jacks whenever I leave the room, but for now I’m the maitre di, waiter & busboy.

The Oasis of Hope held a question and answer period yesterday that was very insightful. While we are here in Tijuana, the therapy has a very strong component of super-oxidation. They noted in giving a detailed response to a question that in low doses oxidation supports cancer growth, but at high doses oxidation promotes cancer death. When we return to NY the at-home protocol is anti-oxidant based along with dietary changes. The head of research here said that for breast cancer patients, optimally there would be no meat of any kind (no fish or chicken) in their diet and packaged food is bad as a general rule. The no meat is related to the bodies response to its presence. Having a high concentration of protein introduced into the body causes the body to release a host of growth factors to make use of the protein available, which of course simultaneously benefits the cancer.

Based on the Oasis of Hope’s comments in regard to the high oxidation in Tijuana/ anti-oxidant at-home therapy protocol, I asked a question.  When we return home we have access to high dosage vit. C and ozone therapies, would it be beneficial for us to continue those protocols in some manner when we return?  (I had already made some preliminary arrangements for vit. C treatments.) Their response was 2-fold. First the head of research said probably not and not often if you do. It’s contradictory to the home program and most places that give high doses of vit. C don’t do so at a fast enough rate to achieve the superoxidation therapy level. Less important is the 50-100 gram dosage than the speed at which it is introduced.  Secondly, the Oasis of Hope has had great success with breast cancer. They consider it one of the easier cancers to treat.

An example was given of a woman treated here who had metastatic disease and was given days to live by conventional doctors in the US. She was flown to San Diego and driven to Oasis of Hope by ambulance. She could not walk or situp and came in by stretcher. When she left the initial treatment cycle she was able to situp in a wheelchair. When she returned from the home regimen, she was walking. The Oasis of Hope has great confidence in their history defeating breast cancer and advised us to follow the protocol.

Normally, I would’ve taken this as a sigh of great hubris. However, in previous sessions and discussions with other patients and their companions, there have been several instances where the Oasis of Hope has sent patients home with instructions for further conventional treatment prior to their return. In some cases the patients were advised to return home for chemotherapy treatments not because they couldn’t be done here, but because in the US the insurance will cover such treatments without cost to the patient.  In most cases I have found the Oasis of Hope to be confident, but also selfeffacing at times. Their consideration of how a client can tolerate the expense of the treatment, at times to the financial detriment to the hospital, is quite refreshing and gave me confidence that when they suggested following the at-home protocol without additions their answer was based on prior medical experience and not egomaniacal posturing.

Ankhner / Khalfani

I arose this morning nauseated and weak.  Perhaps much like my mate, I ate too much food.  He and I OD’d on this great food and similar to goldfish……..we just didn’t know when to stop eating!! :-)  I also believe that with all this delicious fresh squeezed juice, I didn’t drink enough water.  I corrected that as the day passed.

Another doctor who I later found out would be my medical treatment doctor arrived to share the treatment plan for the day.  He reviewed with me a nice color-coded chart of the weekly schedule.  Today I had Ozone Therapy, UV Radiation Therapy, Mega Vit C, Laetrile and Perftec.  The Ozone/UV therapy was the most intriguing.  First they withdrew about a quart of blood from my body, exposed it to ozone (concentrated oxygen), and then ran the blood through a UV channel on its way back into my body.  That’s the short of it.  Pretty neat!  So what does this do?  This procedure improves circulation and oxygen delivery on the capillary level, inhibiting the production of new blood vessels inside tumors, which results in tumor growth decrease.  Additionally, it helps the body produce antioxidant enzymes in normal tissue protecting against oxidative stress generated by tumors.

Dr. Contreras gave a talk on the various treatment protocols here at Oasis of Hope Hospital.  I found the doctor to be extremely down-to-earth and personable.  He answered questions very clearly and in terms that we all could understand — no technical jargon.  He was up to date on pretty much every patients case and was able to answer questions specifically about our individual treatment programs. 

For me, he shared that while the sarcoidosis would not interfere with the treatment, he was unsure how exactly it would respond to treatment.  He had not seen enough cases to make any determinations.  He did state that after looking at the petscans, it appears as though the sarcoid in the chest cavity had been there for a long time.  He said it had already begun to calcify, something, he said, takes a long time to do (years).

Dr. Contreras also recommended that I take tamoxafin or some other hormone blocker to keep the estrogen production at bay.  For general health –which was directed at everyone listening — he recommended no less that 4 hours per week of strenuous exercise (where you sweat) and a healthy, nutritious diet inclusive of “Synerpax.” (nutriceuticals).

On another interesting note, Dr. Contreras spoke of the need to utilize every available means of treatment in order to treat the whole patient.  There were patients who had come to the hospital to avoid toxic chemotherapy and were dismayed by the recommendation of Oasis doctors to administer such drugs.  Dr. Contreras spoke about the need to treat the whole patient and that it is sometimes medically  necessary to level the playing field.  If an aggressive type of cancer has spread to parts of the body like the liver or lungs (prognosis for life greatly reduced), then administering certain chemotherapy drugs that will bring the tumor under control would be necessary.  However, simultaneous to the drug, Oasis doctors would strengthen the patient’s body with ozone, uv, vit C, etc. so that his/her body could tolerate the harsh drug.  Additionally, they might localize the chemo drug as opposed to exposing the entire body to the chemical.  For us as patients, this sound rationalization and holistic approach to healing plays an invaluable role in uplifting our mind, body and spirit while addressing our quality of life concerns.

So as you can see, it was a full day.  Stay tuned……………..

Aqa Aakhu