Remember to include a cardiologist on your team- get your heart screened by a cardiologist at least as often as you would change the oil in your car.
I've written a few messages is regards to my Mom's 11 year off and on battle with metastatic breast cancer. over 7 years were cancer free. her nutritional regimen is listed in those messages, I hope it helps someone. I have only received one reply, but she was thrilled that I was posting an account of her success. July 30th all blood work and CT scan showed no cancer anywhere in her body.
August 12th at 10:45 pm My stepfather called me , my mom was struggling to breathe in the background. I told him not to wait for me call 911!. I live down the street and arrived in just 3 minutes. My Mother was talking but very anxious that she could not get a full breath. The 3 of us thought it was an anxiety attack, her first.
When the local fire rescue EMT and one paramedic arrived, the world became surreal. They were at my Mom's house 40 minutes, never taking her vitals- except for pulse rate 240. No one took charge, I called her doctor 3x hoping to get someone to direct the paramedic. They kept badgering her to conrtol herself & her breathing, she would tell them she was trying. The EMT & Paramedic stood about five feet away chit chating and joking.
Suddenly, 38 minutes into the call for EMS, Mom turned to me on her left side, she looked at me closed her eyes halfway and dropped into unconscienousness. I kind of yelled for whoever has medical training to get over here this isn't normal. When the f...ing jerks decided to take the situation seriously, they put a monitor & leds on her chest, pulse rate 30bpm. It was chaos, the EMT stopped using the ambu bag to breathe for her while he fiddled with straps on the backboard. I picked up the ambu bag and lokked at the paramedic asking what the hell while I breathed for her. There were 10 documented fire rescue people in Mother's bedroom, too many. They never gave her O2 while going from the bed to the rescue truck. We picked this medium sized town because the hospital is just 1.5 mile away. I put my dad in the front cab of the rescue truck and followed in my car. I had her registered at emergency room at least 4 minutes before they brought her from the ambulance through the doors. Paramedic riding on the gurney doing CPR - NO Oxygen!. 2 minutes later they let me in the treatment room. The doctor said CPR's been done for 15 minutes, we can't bring her back to the way she was. My beautiful, lively mother and friend was gone- onto glory! With victory over cancer, her heart had been affected. We had a really fun day shopping that Sunday & having lunch, & making plans.
Please, please realize that the treatments have side effects, her oncologist & my sister the nurse reckon she started throwing bloodclots in the last 24 hours. Please include a regular checkup with a cardiologist to track your heart's health. think of it like a mamogram. If you're undergoing chemo infusion (even hormone inhibitor), radiation fractions, or have undergone these things to fight cancer, just imagine what stress is being added to your daily life and body. Remember the heart!!!!!! AND LUNGS!!
Meanwhile, as my whole family grieves from the shock of losing such a courageous cancer survivor, remember there are nutritional choices to help compliment the conventional treatments and defeat the cancer.
Next week when we receive the death certificates, well lets just say, I 've got legitimate reasons to demand the firing of the paramedic and on scene commander. I want to reduce the chances of another woman's physical cardiac arrest symptoms being reduced by discrimination and disparate judgements as another anxious, over emotional woman. Thank you Jesus for taking her so calmly to eternity.