10/18/2024
UPDATE FROM ME ❤️
Hello!
Quite a few of you have reached out desiring an update. First of all, thank you for caring for me and my family well and reaching out. I just noticed it's been 2 months since I've written...
Now here's my update...
I had my 3rd vaccine towards the end of August, and then home. Oh how lovely it felt to land one last time in Seattle. Sigh...
The purpose of doing dendritic Cell Treatment was to reprogram my immune system to fight the cancer, as cancer in all our bodies wants to hide. With any immune response there will be inflammation, fatigue and nausea. So yes, that's where I'm at today. I am so grateful to know my body, to have done the healing work years ago, and honor her. When she tells me to rest or sleep, as much as my brain wants to get one more thing done, I pause and rest. This is how our bodies heal. Recently the nausea picked up, but all this I carry a thought, "bring it one, if this is what heals me!" I am hopeful the nausea, fatigue and inflammation around my liver is due to the immune system responding well to the recent treatment. As we know, cancer rarely happens overnight. Same with the healing journey. I'm in it for the long haul with this type of healing. I believe my body was created to heal and that's where I'm headed. Full healing!
I have every other week blood work, and meet with my Metabolic Terrain Dr. monthly. Sometimes I check in with my Oncologist here in Wentachee, and my GI Oncologist at Fred Hutch, but mostly I'm living in the trust of the process. Yes, there are really hard days, emotionally. Fear creeps in, doubt hovers, and I see life and death with a new lens. But what I know is our thoughts create our feelings, our feelings change our behavior which shifts our results. Authentically, I'll keep showing up in hope and trust for full healing. Please join me as I meditate on this mantra...
"My body is well
My liver is healthy
I am cancer free"
I am learning suffering does produce healing. It's not the lesson I wanted to learn, but this is my lot and I'll carry it with authenticity, emotions, concern, reality, love, compassion and a never ending advocacy. I am hopeful my story will lend it's self to someone else's story of healing and freedom.
Did you know gratitude interrupts our amygdala, which drips cortisol, which is our stress hormone. Today, along with most days (not all), I find 1 thing to offer gratitude in, interrupting unnecessary stress, creating a sense of balance in my system. So today, I am deeply grateful for each of you, your generosity, and care for me, this healing journey and my sweet family. You have eased our load considerably!
Will I go back to Immunocine? Not sure. I'll get a CT Scan in Seattle on 11/15, finding results that day. This scan will determine next steps. For now...I'm in the waiting...
All my love!
Jill
Pic of me starting up IV Vit C again. This time w/B12. Learning I am a poor methallater, which can be carcinogenic…troubleshooting why cancer proliferated in my body.