Round Three with Sutent Friday, July 12, 2013
Ok I can breathe better now.
Six hours of activity is enough to make me have to stop and rest. Hence the terseness of the last post.
The new oncologist says there is no obvious growth of the tumors, that
the cancer is held at bay, and that my blood work shows I’m stable. He said there was no better alternative to
continuing with Sutent.
My bet that there would be no dealing with my symptoms
proved true. I’ll have to take them
elsewhere. In other words, I still have no symptoms of kidney cancer. Strange, isn't it. My symptoms are classified under less than optimal living habits plus all the side effects of the drugs.
I asked if there were any new alternatives. He said there were 8 drugs available. I asked “are they for papillary RCC?” and he
said, no, none are particularly designed for the papillary type. The tests are all done on the broader category
RCC, or should I say, RCCs? So it is still a crap shoot.
There is no denying that I was hoping for a better
alternative. So this time I’m going to
make one: I’m going to try my own home-brew of complementary medicines and exercises. I’ll see what naturopaths, chiros, et c., I
can get thru my Group Health. I’ll beef
up the percentage of raw plant food. And
so on.
This tendency has a long history with me, all the way back
to the diet of “water and pulses” from my childhood stories. I’m pretty sure it is in the Daniel stories.
A friend loaned my Andrew Weil’s Integrative Oncology
early in this cancerous phase of life and from it I learned that he was
suggesting that healthy living options were the best options. And at the time I was only looking for someone
who had options for “papillary renal cell carcinoma” and he didn't, so I didn't
follow his advice. But in a sense, my
“complementary option” is the same thing.
Will it help? Will it matter? Time will tell.
Thanks for listening.
Aloha.
Thaller Vale
7/12/2013 7:05 PM
