Cancer Update Sept. 20

Ok, it has been 18 days since my last gamma ray treatment and I still haven't gotten my strength back. While the radiation treatment has stopped the turbo tumor from growing (or slowed it enough so my skin can keep up), the swollen lymph node is bigger than when the radiation treatments started. I'm growing skeptical of conventional treatments.

First the standardized from the front head shot. It's still less bad than when I started the monoclonal antibody treatments. The lymph node on the right front side of my neck which was making me look like the Toxic Avenger is still mostly shrunk.

Everywhere else, I have regressed. The original skin cancer tumor is regrowing. I have a lymph node under the right side of my jaw that is starting to swell. I have fresh bumps on the back of my neck and the lymph node under my armpit is nearing tennis ball size.

I think the radiation weakened my immune system to the point that everything not zapped got a free pass to grow. On the hopeful side, when I did an infusion on September 5^th, I ran a fever much of the day for several days. So it appears that I'm still responding to the monoclonal antibodies. With fuller recovery from the radiation I expect more mmph from next week's Libtayo infusion.

But I'm ready to add to the stack.

Time for Some Mad Science in the Kitchen

Fall has arrived, and that means green black walnuts are available for making homemade black walnut extract.

The walnuts above have been soaking in 100 proof vodka for close to two days. The walnuts were completely green when I started. They had been picked off a tree and sent to me by mail from Virginia. Had I done the soaking in the refrigerator, I think they would still be green.

Homemade black walnut tincture is WAY different from the black walnut hull extracts you can buy at the health food store. The latter look like brown sludge and taste like dirt. The extract I am making still retains some green and tastes like it has some scary interesting volatile chemicals.

Despite my being too lazy to make room in the refrigerator for the soaking, there is still green in the tincture and the flavor resembles the smell of the fresh green walnuts. I intend this afternoon to run this tincture through a coffee filter, bottle it, and store in the refrigerator.

So why am I making up this herbal tincture? Answer, it is part of Hulda Clark's parasite cleanse. (The other parts are wormwood and cloves.) Hulda Clark had the utterly absurd theory that all tumors were actually parasites which had moved to novel places in the body due to modern pollutants. If tumors were made of parasites, that fact would have been noticed by doctors doing biopsies and surgical removals a long long time ago. Yes, I can hear neck bearded Reddit readers laughing and screeching like monkeys from here.

It gets worse. Roughly thirty years ago I read a chunk of Hulda Clark's first book, The Cure for All Cancers. The experience was both hilarious and horrifying. Her pseudoscientific lab procedures were at the Gilligan's Island level. And I'm not talking about The Professor, or even Gilligan. I'm talking about the superstitious headhunters. She "detected" parasites by measuring skin impedance using electrical signals in the audio range. She "found" the resonant frequencies of parasites and toxins by measuring resonances of various samples outside the human body. Never did she confirm that any of her clients had the detected parasites using conventional measures. Never.

Utterly insane. But I did say I was doing Mad Science.

But why? The answer lies in why I read Hulda Clark back in the mid 1990s in the first place. My mother had a coworker who had been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer with less than six months to live. She had had lumps all over her body so that sounds like stage 4. She did the original version of Hulda Clark's anti parasite protocol and recovered completely. She would come by the farm each year to get some green black walnuts for her maintenance dose to keep the [imaginary?] liver flukes away. She gave my mother a copy and I read some of it.

OK, that is an N=1 case study with a person who was extra susceptible to the placebo effect. But complete remission from stage 4 liver cancer is a pretty big deal. Either the treatment works for some people or we are looking at Placebo Extra Strength.

For those who scoff at an N=1 unscientific case study, I refer you to the properly controlled clinical trials for the infusions I am currently taking. 47% of the patients saw some improvement. Relying just on the infusions is thus playing Russian Roulette with 3 rounds in the cylinder. Fortunately, I am responding. There was tumor shrinkage, but some of the tumors are growing back and I have new tumors. But consider the other part of the study: only 17% had complete tumor disappearance.

That was for squamous skin cancer. I have basal cell skin cancer. The clinical trials there were just 32% some success and 7% total remission. But that was with patients who were previously treated with a "hedgehog inhibitor" whatever that is.

Anyway, my oncologist took me straight to Libtayo. He has had great success with the drug.

But looking at the clinical trial results, doing a bit of mad science on the side doesn't seem so irrational.

BTW, I'm putting this on the public record now so ye readers get to see a non fudged case study -- for positive or negative. Do keep in mind that no professional scientist would dare risk his or her career trying to prove or disprove this protocol given the idiotic theory behind it. It would take a large number of positive sophisticated amateur case studies to make a professional scientist touch this with an eleven meter pole.

Now for the Ugly Pictures

Those of weak stomachs should leave now. I'll insert a peaceful picture to preserve your eyes.

First, the original skin cancer tumor:

It is growing back. Bummer.

And now for the bloated lymph gland that was zapped with gamma rays:

The lump is a less angry a shade of red. Most of the dead skin is gone because I scraped it off with my fingernails. Ever picked at a scab from a scraped knee a little bit too early? Similar sensation: painful but delightful. The surrounding burns are still angry.

I don't think the missing hair is from the gamma rays. The radiation techs asked me to shave the area around the lump. After experiencing hair stuck in medical tape a few times, I got kind of aggressive with the electric razor and beard trimmer. And I don't have a mirror arrangement that allows me to see the back of my head.

Now for a look at the new lumps:

See the new lumps further down the back of my neck, and the small bulge below and behind my chin. Worrisome.

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