After five months there has been multiple tests but no treatment from the medical system.   By phone, I agreed to 30 days of combined radiation and chemo.  Treatment to begin sometime in March in Victoria and last for 30 days.   Initial side effects are expected to last for an additional 30 days with a 20% risk of long term adverse effects.  Less than 10% chance for a cure.

In December I began self treatment by beginning a (much) stricter ketogenetic (low carb) weight loss diet.  To date I have lost 20 pounds.  I have practiced intermittent fasting and short term 2-3 day water fasts but have been cheating with keto deserts after the evening meal.   I followed a ketogenetic diet in 2017 and lost 50 pounds (270 to 220), regaining 20, which I have now lost. 

All cancer cells share a common weakness referred to the Warburg effect: In oncology, the Warburg effect is a form of metabolism found in cancer cells which favors fermentation over the pathway used by healthy cells.  Cancer cells are addicted to sugar.  When you are in ketosis, cancer cells begin to starve and become apparent to t-cell defenses produced in the gut.  This is referred to as starving cancer.  and is considered an adjunct therapy.

Diagnostic and treatment process that a clinician should follow for a certain type of patient, illness, or clinical circumstance. 

I am scheduled for chemotherapy and radiation therapy phone consultations.

Most people need 4 to 6 cycles of treatment over 3 to 6 months of chemotherapy

People having conventional radical radiotherapy are likely to have 20 to 32 treatment sessions. Radical radiotherapy is usually given 5 days a week, with a break at weekends. Each session of radiotherapy lasts 10 to 15 minutes and the course usually lasts 4 to 7 weeks.

To-Be-Determined

Immunotherapy. This uses drugs to rally your body’s own immune system to fight the cancer. Your doctor may use immunotherapy as a first treatment if surgery isn’t a good choice, or use it after chemoradiation.

A dangerous condition, ARDS—or wet lung—happens when the lungs are damaged by illness or injury and fill with fluid instead of air. This interferes with air flow in the lungs and oxygen transfer to the rest of the body. Organ failure and, in some cases, death can result.

It doesn't matter what you want.  It matters what you get.   I start immunotherapy in two weeks.  That means that I am doing well.  Things don't look any worst and some things look better.  The standard of care treatments may kill you, but the cancer will for sure if you don't find your way through the process.  Most people find out too late and the cancer has already spread throughout their bodies making survival much harder.  I was lucky and continue to be except for the fact that I have lung cancer.  

Today I learned that my lungs will always look bad after treatment, and that immunotherapy can trigger a considerable list of immune responses that can kill you quite quickly but that the most likely is a skin rash.

Three days after my last treatment I purchased a OneFinity CNC 

see fluxPoint meditation benches at  FLYBYcnc.ca.

The question of purpose.  It has now been 10 months since the initial x-ray and almost 4 months since I began treatment.  First you collect as much information as possible, then you go into meditation, a path appears before you and you follow that path.   While following the path you monitor your progress.  

At this point I have not felt well for 4 months.  The side effects of 6 weeks of radiation and chemotherapy followed by immunotherapy combined to the point where I wondered if I was going to continue at all much less then to the next scan in December 2022, still four months away.

I told Susan that regardless of the outcome of the scan, I doubted that I would continue treatment after that point.   

Its a 12 step sort of deal as you go through the physical ups and downs and at every step you must reconsider whether what you are going through is worth the effort.  Today was my third immunotherapy session and everything went quite well (six hours later), but that may change.  A woman in her 40's suffered a panic attack and refused treatment.  You mind your own business in the therapy room but the entire staff clustered around her and escorted her out of the room.    This is not an adult only all inclusive!  There are children and young mothers being treated. 

Ah! What a relief! 

I can continue as if nothing has changed!

Discovery October 2022 

Six weeks of radiation 5 days per week

Six weeks of chemo 1 day per week

12 months of immunotherapy once per month

Non-progressive scan August 2023