Those that have followed my trip down cancer highway are aware that I spent better than 6 weeks in the hospital during July and Aug. I had 2 bladder surgery‘s ,Gall Bladder surgery and a yeast infection in my chest . This was all brought about by side effects from the chemo treatments, I had in Feb March and April. I also got a VRE infection while hospitalized.

I was not able to do my cannabis oil while in the Hospital. When I was released on Sept. 1st I Immediately started the cannabis oil again. I have now been back on the oil for 25 days .( More on this below)

I now have all new Drs. at Lahey clinic my new oncologist is a specialist in MDS and Leukemia type Cancers. On Sept. 7th she called me and said my blood work was showing 23% blood blast ( blast are immature blood cells, any thing over 20% is considered full blown Leukemia.( Normal blast are 0 to 2%) This phone call was not completely unexpected as about 20% of MDS patients’ progress to AML ( Acute myeloid Leukemia) AML Kills in weeks to 3 or 4 months The only treatment is induction Chemo which is high doses of Chemo and Radiation therapy requiring several week in the hospital. This strips all of your bone marrow The hope is that the new bone marrow will be cancer free or has been lowered to a survivable % ,this is followed by a bone marrow transplant which is at least another month in the hospital. I gave it some thought and decided that was not for me. I was originally told I had a year to live at best so why waste anymore of my year in a hospital for a treatment that may or may not work. ( see chart below on chemo results)

The bottom line is "chemo kills more patients than it "cures". Most of those deaths are the result of liver or heart failure. As the below chart indicates, the five year survival rate due to chemo is only 2.1% (a similar study in Australia found the rate to be only 2.3%). Thus on average fewer than 3% of patients who who opted for chemo survived longer than did those who opted to not undergo chemo. But even that meager statistic is misleading in two key ways:

First of all, though survival rates are slightly higher for the first couple of years compared to those who opted out of chemo, after the third year the survival rate for those who opted out is greater than those who were treated with chemo and the gap widens significantly every year after that.

Secondly, and perhaps most important of all, the survival rates compare all of those who either undergo chemotherapy or decide against it. That includes the very large number of people who do little or nothing to address their cancer naturally and merely forego chemo. If chemo survival rates were compared with those of people who not only opted out of chemo, but also chose a non-invasive natural protocol to eliminate the toxins and other causes of cancer, to boost their immune systems and to attack the cancer naturally without inflicting damage to the rest of the body, there would surely be no comparison"

Today the Dr told me that my blood work taken by an outside Lab 2 days ago shows 6% blasts. The Dr. then said , she did not have confidents in that number and explained that blast counts are done by lab tech’s, not a machine ,she further explained that the blast counts at Lahey are done by a pathologist and the blood work I had an hour before I met with her showed 17% blast.
While that is down from the 23% it is far from being good.

I reminded her of what a summer I put in and told her that I was slowly getting back to where I was in June as I had started the cannabis oil again and My blood counts shows my Hemoglobin’s, White blood cells and platelets have held steady or improved, plus the last 3 test show my blasts dropping. After she thought about this we agreed something was happening I would just continue on the cannabis Oil and we would keep close watch on all the counts. Till push come to shove and we’ll decide what to do then.

As for me I have great confidence that the oil is working.

The chart showing cancer survival rates for those whom opt to try chemo can be found at this link