UPDATE JANAUARY 2009

Hello again,

It is now a year since my diagnosis and slightly more since the lump discovered me….and I am still here and well.

A year ago I thought of going to the Paracelsus clinic in Switzerland and they gave me an appointment for august last year. After having spoken to a few people about their experience there I decided that it was not for me. The feedback was not very positive. Anyway by that time I was well into my treatment with Dr Trefzer and I liked my weekly trips to his clinic. The staff was always impeccable and chatting to the other patients was a source of information and knowledge. Now that I have stopped treatment there I am thinking of going to see them just to keep in touch.

At first I gave myself 6months to try out an alternative approach to cancer, which I then extended to one year. Now that I have reached a year this has become a lifetime approach. I feel well and certainly better than a year ago. I am tired (have gone back to work) but am careful to rest as much as I can. The alternative approach for me is an overhaul of my life. All the changes I am making are long term; there is no quick fix.

Following is a list of the things I have done and am still doing.

What I have been doing to improve my health:

ü      Diet.

I am on an almost vegan diet, with the occasional fish, organic chicken and egg thrown in. I try to eat as much as I can raw, but still some way to go. I buy organic as much as I can afford it. This will improve because now I am the proud owner of an allotment.

Almost no salt

Still no sugar, diary or soya

Low fruit intake (because of the natural sugar). This is a hard one because I love fruit, but I can feel a difference for the better, by not eating it.

Supplements

My aim is to go raw eventually and to do green juicing, but for this I need to buy a good juicer first.

Eventually I would like to go to the Hippocrates Institute in Florida for their 3week-healing program.

http://www.hippocratesinst.org/About-Us.aspx

ü      Exercising.

I struggle with this the most. I don’t mind doing outdoor things, but going to the gym or spending time concentrating on one regime is tedious. I have joined a yoga class and I do love that. I do try to do my exercises everyday at home, but am not very consistent at the moment. Again the allotment will come in handy – all the digging and weeding.

ü      Treatments.

Cancer: have stopped the vitamin C infusions for now, as my veins kept collapsing and I was in pain for weeks afterwards. So have decided to stop for a while to give my veins a chance of recovering. But also I have run out of money and can’t afford it for now.

What I have started doing is injecting Iscador (homeopathic mistletoe). I self-inject 3 times a week and for now it’s going well. I have also looked at Park Attwood clinic and the treatments they offer there. What they do is inject the mistletoe directly into the tumor. This has been widely used in Europe for the past 80 years. I am planning to go for treatment as soon as I have raised the money needed. The first 4 days as an in-patient are £1300 and then £250-300 for each subsequent treatment. http://www.parkattwood.org/

Dental: I have taken out the offending tooth and started taking out all the amalgam from my mouth. Still a long way to go thought. But I do feel more energetic and positive. The great thing is that I am not in contiuous pain any longer. Gone are the head and neck pain. I am actually enjoying the cold weather. Before I used to be in agony during the winter months. This is thanks to my brilliant cranial osteopath as well. He has noticed a great improvement in my health too.

ü      Well-being.

Am re-evaluating my life and this is actually the hardest thing of all, because where do I go from here? What is the cancer teaching me? what changes do I need to make to be heard? How much time have I got left? What is really, really important? The strange thing is that I do not fear death. What I fear is dying not having lived fully.

still….

Yoga helps me to be in tune with my body and now I need to learn to meditate to be in tune with my heart. Shamanic journeying helps me stay in tune with my healing. While I sit here and write this I can think of so many things I still need and want to do.

ü      Healing.

I feel I am on a journey and somehow I am reconnecting to who I am truly. I feel excited and positive. People are coming into my life again after many years and others are falling away. And all the time I am asking

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Hello!

For those who don’t know me my name is Elisabetta Fumagalli. I am 48 years old. I am a mother to a teenager, home educator and work for a charity as a support worker for children and families. I am involved with my local community and help organise a yearly arts festival. When my energy allows me to I also make artwork and exhibit.

This has happened less and less over the past few years, since I have been feeling rundown and exhausted. Visits to my GP where fruitless as my symptoms where attributed to me getting older! (great)
In October 2007 my left breast suddenly swelled up and when it receded I noticed a large lump. My GP sent me to my local hospital, where it was decided that it was nothing to worry about. The lump persisted and in January 2008 I went back to my GP. This time she sent me to a large teaching hospital for a 2nd opinion.
Two weeks later on my 48th birthday it was confirmed I had cancer and was offered chemotherapy, followed by surgery (lumpectomy), radiotherapy and hormone treatment for the following 5 years.
After several tests the hospital decided a mastectomy was necessary and possibly a double mastectomy, since the right breast seems to be affected too. After recovering from the initial shock and doing my research I decided there are less invasive ways of dealing with cancer.

I contacted Yes to Life, who put me in touch with Cancer Options, who give consultation to people with cancer about all the treatments available and not just what is available on the NHS. They were great in pointing me in the right direction. They suggested I see Dr Trefzer, who runs the High Tree clinic in Uckfield.
They also said that my history of feeling unwell and run down is a typical sign of my immune system not working. Not least because of a tooth infection with which I have been battling since the mid 80s. This has become so bad now that when I am in pain I am unable to function. I have seen a number of NHS and private dentists. None of which have been able to establish the source of the infection. Several courses of antibiotics have made no difference. I need to address this health problem as well as the cancer, since it will continue to impair and deplete my immune system and my body will not be strong enough to fight the cancer and stay healthy once the cancer has gone.
Also as Cancer Options pointed out, going through chemotherapy would leave me worse off in the end, since this would further damage my immune system.

Dr Trefzer suggested I go for treatment to the Paracelsus Clinic in Switzerland, which is a specialist clinic for chronic and acute illnesses, including cancer, and has a dedicated biological dental department. I would kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. Their success rate with breast cancer is 95%, whereas conventional treatment would offer me only 80%. Dr Trefzer would be able to support the treatment here in England.

I have sent a request to the Paracelsus clinic and in the meantime have started treatment with Dr Trefzer at the High Tree clinic in Uckfield. This suits me well at the moment as my son is doing his GCSE’s now.

Some web links for your information:

http://www.pbmn.org/inner/clinics_lustmuhle.html

http://www.new-cancer-treatments.org/Articles/RootCanals.html

http://www.drwolfe.com/energy_medicine/teeth_relationships.html

http://www.whale.to/d/root2.html

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Elisabetta