At 4 a.m. I awoke to the sounds of screaming. There was a doctor and a nurse in our room packing yards of gauze into Lennie’s rectum, trying to stop the bleeding. The screams were Lennie’s screams as he bit into his pillow, not being able to stand the pain…..
Earlier in the day Lennie was having his treatments and we were talking at how astonished we were that he was now pain free after his 2 1/2 hour surgery a week prior. It was only two days after surgery that Lennie was back at Hope4Cancer and Dr Jiminez was calling him ‘Miracle Man’. He was up and walking the day after surgery, and that morning was his last dose of pain medication. He has a catheter in his chest, a seven inch incision down the middle of his stomach, a colostomy with stitches inside and out and hemmorhoid surgery with numerous contusions and stitches. And no pain. Lennie was like a superhero with superpowers to be able to heal so quickly. Only in the wee hours of the morning did he usually have to call the nurses for some pain medication to ease the discomfort of the area where the colostomy bag now is. He was now able to eat solid food and he had just gotten off the scale, weighing 194 even after his 12 day liquid diet. He hypothesized that he was improving by about 2% per day.
Paul Beatty, the fatty acids expert, had told me that after surgery he would heal faster and have very little pain after being on the Efamol Evening Primrose Oil and Cod Liver Oil protocol. He was right. So here was ‘Miracle Man’ doing great. It was time to start adding some more treatments to his protocol so that we could leave for Hawai’i and implement our home regimen. We had decided against any rectal probe treatments and Dr Cedeno had said not to use Ozone for a while as the stitches were organic and the Ozone could dissolve them. I was still concerned about this, but somehow someone had said that he could now start the ozone treatment. I was not there when Lennie had the treatment, but the nurse came up and said that he needed cleaning up. This seemed like a good time to get him into another sitz bath as the surgeon had just checked his stitches about an hour earlier. After the sitz bath I saw that the water was full of blood. I called the doctor up to our room. He was bleeding from a small hemorrhoid on the outside where a stitch seemed to be broken. Oh no, I thought: the Ozone. The doctor wadded some gauze and poured Hydrogen Peroxide over it as he said that it was very useful at stopping small areas of bleeding. “Would it be better if we also applied pressure?”, I asked. “Yes it would.”, answered Dr Cantania. “Would you be able to hold your hand there for 10 minutes?” I kept my hand pressed tightly into Lennie’s anus for 15 minutes until the doctor came back into the room. I held the broken stitch on the outside tightly together and when I let go that small break had stopped bleeding. The gauze that the doctor had wadded inside was no longer oozing with blood. Lennie was instructed to just lie there and not move around. It wasn’t more than about 20 minutes when Lennie decided that he did not like his position and wanted to turn around in the bed. He struggled to sit up and change his position and get comfortable. It was about an hour later when I checked that I saw the pools of blood. I called the doctor and he wadded more gauze against the blood-soaked cloth. They started to give him Disynone to stop the bleeding. It was late at night by now when we thought that the bleeding had slowed down. I told the nurse that I would stay up and watch him. At about 2 a.m. I went to sleep and thought that it was stopping.
It took the doctor and nurse about an hour to pack Lennie’s rectum. It was now 5 a.m. and the surgeon was walking into our room. It had been a long and painful procedure with Lennie screaming out with the pain and begging the doctor to stop. Dr Suzanne Guilliame was wonderful with him, telling him that she knew he hated her right now, but that he was strong physically and mentally and could stand it. I am estimating that he lost about 2 pints of blood. I began to get worried when the nurse started to save all the blood soaked bandages and protective pads. 12 gauze bandages had been tied together like a rope. 9 of them had been stuffed in to apply pressure and it was after the 9th that the bandage stopped turning red. Mercifully it was over and the blood flow was stopping.
It is now 6:30 p.m. in Mexico and we are waiting for the surgeon to come here to take a look and perhaps remove the pressure bandage. If the bleeding starts up again he will have to go back in to surgery to have it stitched up. Hopefully it is only a dissolved stitch and not the actual tumor bleeding.
Today he has had 3 bags of plasma and 1 bag of his rare A negative blood, so he is feeling much better.
To be continued…..
Kathryn
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