Update from North Carolina

Greetings from beautiful North Carolina,

It's been an emotional & stressful couple of weeks. Tom had to have drains put in both of his lungs so that we could drain the fluid from his lungs when they needed to be drained instead of going to the hospital & dealing with ER doctors who didn't believe us when we said what needed to be done. It was always the same story, blood work, chest xray to see if that "really" needed to be done. He's had 2 over night stays & many hours waiting in the ER & in the imaging waiting room. You know you've spent to many hours in the waiting room when the staff knows who you are with even tho you didn't come into the room with them.

To see the drain system we are working with here at the hotel. Here is a link to a video showing how it works. Its very emotional on me to see those plastic tubes coming out of his chest on either side. The first time I saw them the saying......We are the borg, you will be assimilated came to mind. (You know I'm a trekkie) But in all seriousness, it's good that we can do this. Bandaging him back up afterwords is a bit of a trick with the special tape but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. We bought some surgical dressing bandages from Walgreens just in case we need them. We are hoping by the end of next month the drains won't be needed.

The first time he had his left lung drained was the day after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic cancer. They took 2 liters off this lung. Next time you go to a grocery store, take a look at a 2 liter bottle of soda. Imagine that much fluid sitting on one side of your chest area. There isn't that much room! We are averaging 1.1 liters drained off the left lung every 3-4 days & 1.2 liters off the right lung every 2-3 days.

His red blood count & his iron levels are low. We've already told the clinic that if he needs blood, we aren't taking it from the general population. Too many people have donated that are vaccinated & we don't want spike proteins floating around in his body & replicating. We both have the same blood type, so he will take mine. Funny thing about him & I, we both have the same blood type, we both have the same back deformity & we both have an allergy to Cephalexin, although the reaction is different. We need to get his iron count up higher so that they can chelate out any heavy metals that have contributed to this. Currently, they are saying he isn't strong enough to chelate.

He officially starts treatment on Monday. He'll be getting hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatment, food grade peroxide, ozone treatment to his blood, Vit. C & glutathione IV's. Also a Palt treatment which is supposed to prevent uncontrolled cellular proliferation. Basically, reverse the spread of metastatic cancer. Cancer can't survive in an oxygen rich environment. We are making the cancer very unhappy right now. It's probably wondering what happened to its happy home of 20 plus years. We have given it it's walking papers.

We'll be out in the Huntersville/Mooresville, NC area at least thru the end of March. Then we get to go home for 4 weeks. Then we come back out for another 4 weeks of treatments. We were given new hope yesterday. One of the doctors who works at the clinic had lung cancer. She went thru 3 rounds of treatments at Dr. Buttar's clinic. She was cured of the cancer. We'll be spending our wedding anniversary out here. Hopefully, he'll up to a few hours out in public then. Right now, all he has the strength for is to leave our hotel room, go to the clinic & back to the hotel room again.

We did have a pleasant surprise during his second stay. One of his nurses (who shall remain nameless to protect her) is completely anti-vax. She had no clue about Dr. Buttar. We spent a lot of time talking & comparing notes. I gave her Dr. Buttar's website info & his phone number. I also gave her the link for this blog. I hope you are reading this blog entry, a big shout out to you. Thank you for the great nursing care that you did for my husband. I hope we can touch base again in about 6 months when we have this thing beat. My husbands story of how we just round out less than a month ago about this has made the rounds at the hospital. People who I don't know who they are come up & ask how he is doing.

We established a primary physician out here for him. She was more than willing to take him on, willing to make procedure appointments if needed & prescribe pain meds as needed. The ones that Tom's oncologist prescribed back in Ames wasn't strong enough in her eyes. So she prescribed him something a bit stronger. It takes awhile to kick in but does work. We go back to her the last Friday of March for a follow up. Dr. Buttar's office doesn't prescribe pain meds, they prefer that they use alternative forms of pain meds like CBD oil or Arnica. Those work to a point but sometimes something a bit stronger is needed.

This is by far the hardest thing that I've ever had to go thru. All the B.S. I went thru as a kid & the stress of 3 year ago is nothing in comparison to this. Watching a loved one fight cancer that has spread from his prostate to his liver, both lungs, spine & pelvis is heart breaking. He has dropped 25 lbs. He looks like a holocaust survivor. He doesn't have 25 lbs. to lose. We've both have shed many tears together. I shed tears in the shower nightly. Please keep our family in your prayers, this battle is only in the beginning stages & we are determined to win with God's help. All healing comes from him, Dr Buttar & his team are only the tools to make it happen.

Until next time,

Lori