Well Guys, It does seem as if my recent heart episode has left me with a bit of a problem. My Exercise Stress Test on Thursday produced an unwelcome result. Although I was treading better than I expected the exercise was stopped when I developed chest pain. The preliminary diagnosis is for “Ischemia”, in other words, a blockage to the heart. I am now awaiting the heart specialist’s determination as to the next step for me. The attending doctor considered a requirement for an ‘angiogram’ but before that, it could well be an computerised tomography (CT) scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) though only the angiogram is likely to produce definitive results.

I must say that I find this heart business more than just a little disappointing because several of the herbal preparations I am taking are said to help negate blocked arteries and such. Although, ‘help’ is perhaps the operative word here and if one were to look at it from a positive viewpoint, they may well have prevented a far worse scenario. Who can tell, huh?

My hypertension, vis-a-vis my high blood pressure, shows definite improvement since the Easter week-end. Maybe it’s the dark chocolate, yeh?

The Frank Haematurea experienced over a 24 hour period around the 8/9th of this month, has thankfully abated but for how long I can’t say. It pop’s up every now and again and has done so for three years or more. It is an inconvenience but of no great concern. Two urologists’ haven’t come up with an answer to it, but I am quite sure it is my prostate that is bleeding, nothing else. As far as I am concerned, the more rubbish removed from that little nut and expunged from my body, the better. Hopefully, it is taking away dead cancer cells.

Talking of which, my aggressive, non-operable prostate cancer was diagnosed some eleven months ago now, and with a dire warning that urgent action was deemed prudent. Having chosen to conduct the “Watchful - Waiting” game I am pleased to say that, apart from the hiccup’s mentioned above, which have not incidentally affected my general wellbeing, I am feeling very positive and on top of the world. That is to say, my cancer has not caused me any obvious problems and the battle royal continues, with me assaulting it at every opportunity using my extensive armory of herbal and natural therapies.

Am I winning? I’d say so - and cheerfully so. I can’t imagine what condition I’d be in now had I taken the conventional medicine route, my body full of radiation, chemo’, and other poisons. As I have said before, the quality of my life is far more important to me for the time that I am here than is the promise of a few months more, totally debilitated, filled with poisons and most important, a severely inhibited immune system.

Today’s Quote:

“Medicine is only palliative, for back of diseases lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach.” Wier Mitchell, M.D.

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