Follow-up on recent posts: Fasting

Also as a follow-up to my recent post about fasting, I fasted again yesterday and it went well (it’s not fun to be hungry, of course, but it’s survivable). I’ve decided to fast regularly on Thursdays. The reason, if you missed that post, is because fasting can help kill cancer cells. And don’t worry about me missing a day’s worth of food. I think I already made up the calories today! Fruit-cabbage-carrot smoothie, yogurt, eggs, bacon, and waffles for breakfast, pizza and sweet potato fries for lunch, and John’s got spaghetti and meatballs and more vegetables cooking for dinner! I’m not going to starve, that’s for sure.

I’m not out of the woods yet with the cancer. My white blood cell count had declined when we checked it toward the end of last week, so I assume they’ll have to check it again soon. Down is not the direction we want it to be going. It means something is stressing my immune system. Hopefully the stressor is just a bit of a mild virus or the fact that I’m still recovering from chemo or something, and not the cancer coming back. I don’t feel sick like with a cold or anything, but I have been tired.

On the other hand, my CEA is low, which is good. CEA is a cancer marker, so that one we want to be low.

I also had a CT scan on Tuesday and I don’t have those results yet. I should hear about that next week and I’ll let you know. I also have a new doctor in Tucson, and I’ll be seeing him in early November.

On a more upbeat note, here’s a rose. That’s just a snapshot I took in my backyard with an older iphone. I didn’t do anything to make the background black like that. It’s just because the flower was lit by sunlight and the surroundings behind it weren’t.

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