At the cancer center last Wed.

[highplainsdem]

29. More prayers and healing vibes, and I hope you won't need a feeding tube. My mother suffered from a swallowing

disorder the last ten years of her life - achalasia, which the pamphlet the doctor gave us said affects only one in 120,000 people - and I had to use food processors for almost everything she ate (salads of romaine lettuce plus an apple, ground up with mayo added, for instance), and it still helped to have her drink a bit of warm water throughout meals, to help wash the food down. Her gastroenterologist said she was the only person with achalasia he'd ever seen who gained a bit of weight (she'd been underweight) instead of losing.

A relative of mine who won a battle with breast cancer ten years ago just had a suspicious lung nodule found on a CT scan and will now need a PET scan. She hated the chemo she needed to beat the breast cancer and is saying she doesn't want to do it again, but I told her that if it is cancer and her doctors say she needs chemo, she should have it. I'm a huge believer in using diet, supplements and exercise to maintain health as much as possible, rather than relying on allopathic (traditional) medicine entirely, but when allopathic treatment is needed I'm very grateful it's there.

And cancer treatment is so much better than it was when we were young.

Hoping you're feeling much better soon, as you fight this.