{"id":336,"date":"2010-11-19T03:24:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T07:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2010-11-19T03:29:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T07:29:33","slug":"lennies-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"LENNIE’S PROGRESS REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I watched Lennie walk out of the airport I felt a pain in my heart as the tears welled in my eyes.\u00a0 I was finally leaving to go back to Canada and I was going without him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week Lennie got more blood tests.\u00a0 His iron count is still way too low and his CEA marker has gone up almost 3 points to 20.9.\u00a0 We were of course hoping that it had gone down, although I tell him that a slight rise makes sense.\u00a0 The oral forms of the Laetrile are a lot less potent (only about 25%) than the IV form which was being ‘mainlined’ directly into his veins and bypassing his digestive tract.\u00a0 It stands to reason that the steep drop in numbers would taper off – and even rise a bit – before leveling off and then gradually start a slower decline in the numbers.\u00a0 I hope that I am right about this.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0diet that I have\u00a0him on is\u00a0for the most part macrobiotic –\u00a0 mainly fresh vegetables and fruit, nuts, seeds and whole grains\u00a0with a bit of fish and yogurt, but without any soy as it contains phytoestrogens which are usually conta-indicated with cancer.\u00a0 I have just started to add some Ezekiel bread back into his diet since his weight had dropped to 2o9; it is now\u00a0steady at 212.\u00a0 I told him that I wanted him to lose 30 pounds last year, but never thought that it would be like this.\u00a0 His total weight loss since Christmas has been 55 lbs.\u00a0 He is currently at his perfect weight.\u00a0 He jokes that he now looks better than he feels due to fatigue.<\/p>\n

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MALIA<\/p><\/div>\n

He is in good hands right now.\u00a0 A week ago his daughter Malia arrived with her boyfriend to look after him for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 It’s at times like this that you realize how important it is to have family or a social network of friends that you can count on in times of crisis.\u00a0 It was time for me to ‘pass the flag’ as I need a break from all of the hats that I have been wearing:\u00a0 friend, protector, nurse, nutritionist, property manager, housekeeper to name a few.\u00a0 My friends here say I have aged in the past few months.\u00a0 I need some time for rejuvenating both my body and my spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since Christmas is only about 6 weeks away here is a thought for any of you who know someone who is the main caregiver of an unwell or elderly person.\u00a0 Give them the gift of your time.\u00a0 There are many things that you can give to them that don’t cost a fortune.\u00a0 Offer them some home made food items; some chores that you do for yourself, even something so simple as grocery shopping, you could perhaps also do for them at the same time.\u00a0 Or maybe even something festive and time-consuming such as offering to help with their Christmas decorating both inside and out.\u00a0 These thoughtful gifts will be well received and will give these over burdened people something even more precious – the gift of time to just be able to relax for a little while.<\/p>\n

Me ka ‘oia’i’o,<\/em><\/p>\n

Kathryn<\/em><\/p>\n

www.kathrynsmith.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I watched Lennie walk out of the airport I felt a pain in my heart as the tears welled in my eyes.\u00a0 I was finally leaving to go back to Canada and I was going without him.\u00a0 Last week Lennie got more blood tests.\u00a0 His iron count is still way too low and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-lennie-and-kathryn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}