All these things (posted by Janine)

Hey mom,

I have faith in your ability to recover fully and live beyond this, mom. Your grandkids and family need you around, so you're gonna beat the cancer and treat your body better than ever before. I know that all this hippy hokey pokey raw vegan stuff is met with a lot of skepticism, but I must say that over the last 7 years I have read many case studies of people who have completely taken a turn for the best after being diagnosed with terminal cancer or diabetes or other diseases. Once they decided to not let Western Medicine dictate how they would treat the cancer, and instead do things the natural way, as nature intended, the patients found themselves fully healed and thriving. So, mom, I think that you might want to be open-minded and give raw foods a shot. I can promise that there is no way it will do bad things to you... only possitive things. I've even heard of doctor's perscribing raw foods for their healing powers. to cancer patients. It's ofcourse all up to the patient in the end, and certainly the power of possitive thinking.

Please read some stories and case studies here (some uterine cancer specific ones):

http://www.gersonhawaii.us/articles/curedcancers2.html

http://www.hippocratesinst.org/Testimonials.aspx

http://www.thecancerblog.com/category/endometrial-cancer/

http://www.living-foods.com/articles/

The stories are inspiring and might make you look at your body's own natural ability to heal as being boundless. Sometimes you need to think outside of the constraints that Western Medicine has put on us and take a different path. But certainly, don't stop seeing a doctor. Just do your research and see if you can design the right diet for a healthy recovery. You can do this, mom. It's so much less about deprivation, then it is about giving yourself the most amazing gift. It actually makes me want to eat raw more just as a preventitive action.

Just take good care of your bosy mom. But the most important thing is to think happy thoughts and not let cancer define you, as Jessie said. Don't sumbit to feeling like you're a victim. You're not a victim. This is just one of lifes trials that you have the ability to beat. I fully believe that.

It's good to see everyone here supporting and helping one another. I have a bug or something that had me on the can every half hour of the night with terrible soup-ass. I'm not sure whether it was something I ate or if maybe mom's news triggered a physical response. I had a subway tuna wrap and other cooked foods yesterday, and I'm kind of laying some blame on that. Anyway, my guts feel awful. I'm back on raw foods today for certain after all this cancer talk. The prom was a total bore, by the way.

Off to get cleaned up and then heading in to the studio for some recording and also will be spending the weekend doing some music grant writing. C'mon glovernment. Cough up the dough!

love to you all,
neenie