[gawlerites] Re: The Gawler diet and our new oncologist
- From: "Lorraine Benson" <lbenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gawlerites@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:55:30 +1000
Dear Bruce and Debbie,
I'm so sorry to hear that Debbie is having further problems and I can
understand you questioning the value of continuing the Gawler diet and the
meditation. Patti's and Bec's advice sounds very helpful.
While I can't offer you anything in the way of oncologist's, etc., I do want
you to know that I have you both in my thoughts and wish Debbie a really good
outcome of the chemotherapy she's about to undertake.
Most sincerely,
Lorraine Benson.
----- Original Message -----
From: bja
To: gawlerites@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:10 PM
Subject: [gawlerites] The Gawler diet and our new oncologist
Hi Guys,
This is just a general query to see if anyone has had any success with the
diets and meditation so far.
Debbie meditates daily and has been sticking to the diet reasonably well (at
least 98% - she misses the occasional juice), but all her markers have been
going up and her recent PET and CT scans show she has numerous instances of new
growth along with additional growth in her previous tumours. As a result, she
will be starting her second batch of chemo soon (this time using Caelyx).
As such, the diet and meditation do not appear to be working for Deb so I
guess I am asking, is it worth continuing? Deb wants to but she is now down to
49kg so I am worried.
Also, we have been dissatisfied with our oncologist for some time (Geraldine
Goss) so we sought a second opinion from Patti's oncologist and he referred us
to a Prof. Michael Leyden at Maroondah hospital. We have now seen him twice and
he seems OK, but I am worried about 'changing ships during a storm'
particularly since we actually had a small ray of sunshine last Wednesday when
Goss was away for our clinic and the head of oncology at Monash, Peter Briggs,
saw us instead.
He seemed far more competent that Goss and it was actually he that
recommended the CT scan and Caelyx so maybe things are turning at Monash. This,
however, leaves us with a very difficult, and potentially life changing
decision as to whether to change oncologists or not. We can't keep having a
foot in both camps now that Deb is about to start chemo again.
As such, I would appreciate any advice if you know of these oncologists, or
the chemo day ward at Maroondah hospital etc.
TIA.
Cheers,
Bruce
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