i got enough sleep before the meeting with the naturopath.<\/p>\n
basically it was kind of like therapy.\u00c2\u00a0 except from a cancer survivor.\u00c2\u00a0 whose whole deal is finding ways to win the mental war and compensate for the nastiness of the physical war in the body.<\/p>\n
he gave me B-12 vitamins.\u00c2\u00a0 b\/c I don’t eat meat, which is mostly true.\u00c2\u00a0 (did you know that pescatarian was added to the dictionary today? So was Fanboy!!! — http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/07\/07\/new.dictionary.words.ap\/index.html)\u00c2\u00a0 and it will also help my liver function<\/p>\n
and we talked a lot about goals and how i need to overcome this mentally.\u00c2\u00a0 it was a lot of information all at once. and it was just the same information as the last time, but more specific.\u00c2\u00a0 lets see if i can remember:<\/p>\n
1. I personally have to take on the mental battle.\u00c2\u00a0 The drs are doing the chemical stuff, but I have to win the mental battle.<\/p>\n
2. I need to set goals.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of the problem is that I am just reacting right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Reactionary.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel bad, I feel good.\u00c2\u00a0 I need to set short term and long term goals.\u00c2\u00a0 So I have something to aim for.\u00c2\u00a0 My long term goal is full quality of life during the 11 month treatment period.\u00c2\u00a0 My short term goal is to make it through the next week feeling good, with more energy, and more calmness.\u00c2\u00a0 And to have liver enzyme counts that allow me to finish up the drugs.<\/p>\n
To accomplish the next week’s goal he told me I need to eat more (whatever I can eat, whenever I can eat), continue to exercise, take my B-12, and I forget the rest.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, meditation.\u00c2\u00a0 Meditation.<\/p>\n
I said to him that meditation seemed to work, but I didn’t understand why. And he said something that was kind of stunning, but I kind of forget what it was.\u00c2\u00a0 maybe it was kind of mystical like ‘maybe you know more than you realize.’<\/p>\n
Anyway, it was really early in the morning, and it was so much information, but I forget.\u00c2\u00a0 The next meeting is after noon, so I’ll be in better shape.<\/p>\n
The other thing he kept saying is that I have to move through this.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t be passive.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to move through this, and arrive at a state where I am at peace with the cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 Because, as he says, I will never get to the point where the cancer is a non-issue.\u00c2\u00a0 He is 19 years out, and he still thinks about it.\u00c2\u00a0 As he says, this is now version 2.0 of my life.\u00c2\u00a0 And there is no going back.\u00c2\u00a0 But there is making peace.<\/p>\n
And if there is no making peace, then I play victim.\u00c2\u00a0 And that is lame.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t want to play victim.\u00c2\u00a0 Laaaame.<\/p>\n
i think there was a bunch more, but that is what i remember now, two hours later.<\/p>\n
now it is time to leave to get my Interferon.\u00c2\u00a0 week 3 begins.\u00c2\u00a0 hopefully this will go easy.\u00c2\u00a0 and my liver will stay happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
i got enough sleep before the meeting with the naturopath. basically it was kind of like therapy.\u00c2\u00a0 except from a cancer survivor.\u00c2\u00a0 whose whole deal is finding ways to win the mental war and compensate for the nastiness of the physical war in the body. he gave me B-12 vitamins.\u00c2\u00a0 b\/c I don’t eat meat, … Continue reading Naturopath 2.0: goals and strategies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,25,12,11,8,30,9],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-appetite","tag-fatigue","tag-fight","tag-interferon","tag-meditation","tag-portland","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}