About this time my wife and I decided to attend the Ballard
Seafest Event: food, fun, music, crafts, and all manner of new things to explore.
Have you ever read “The Celestine Prophecy”? I bring that up because one of the ‘Insights’ talks about how everyone we meet has some
important message to impart to us. Not just serendipity, there is a reason for
the meeting, and a message to be shared that will bring about some form of
mutual benefit. Life can be really fun and interesting when one is open to this
philosophy. Who knew at the time the Ballard Seafest would open a door to alternative
healing. During the Ballard Seafest, as if guided, we found ourselves in front
of a Bastyr University booth. Wonders
of wonders, those in the booth were passing out coupons for a Free Naturopathic
Clinic Visit. They explained further that because of our age, we already qualified
for their $15 normal visit charge at the teaching side of their clinic. Yahoo! We
were thrilled not only because this opened another option for exploring the
potential Prostate Cancer, but because each of us had chronic concerns that
needed to be addressed.
My first visit to Bastyr’s Natural Health Clinic shortly thereafter was a rewarding experience. The
students, nearly ND’s in their own right and guided by Dr. Jones, were helpful and professional.
There approached my issues as a team and were supervised by a Licensed Naturopathic
Physician. Let me step aside from the Prostate Cancer for a moment to share an immediate
success story from my first visit.
For over ten years, I had been plagued by a debilitating
feeling of a burning sensation in my skin. This was much like the sensation one
experiences coming inside from the snowy cold and warming up too fast. The
skin as it warms starts to tingle, then builds into a crescendo of fiery
pricking pain. This appeared various places
throughout my body seemingly at random. It was affecting my concentration, my
sleep, and at times all I could do was lay down hoping it would pass. Over the
years I had seen all manner of ‘medical’ doctors without success. They prescribed
everything from B12 shots to serious addictive drugs that would only mask the
pain not resolve the problem. I had blood tests, leaky gut test, even a CAT
scan to find a solution. Nothing worked. My most recent physician for this
condition was a Neurologist at Group Health who told me I was healthy, there
was nothing he or I could do, learn to live with it, and then charged me an
outrageous fee for his less than helpful opinion.
During my appointment at Bastyr, after really listening to my medical history, they suggested I have a Food
Antibody Standard Food Panel IgG/IgE Assessment from US BioTek Laboratories. We did the blood draw at Bastyr and shortly
thereafter I received results. Much to my surprise I was Highly Allergic
to all forms of Dairy including Eggs. I
also had serious allergies to Beef, Sugar Cane, Bananas, Cranberries, Pineapple,
Almonds, Hazelnuts, Asparagus, and Onions. At the time, cheese was a major part
of my diet. With this information I immediately removed Dairy, and any other allergic
foods I was still eating. Shortly thereafter the symptoms that had plagued
me for over a decade disappeared! You can’t believe how this felt. It’s like
winning the lottery and well worth every minute spent at Bastyr and the
reasonable cost of the testing from US BioTek Laboratories. Later I
found out that Dairy, along with certain other foods, could well be a prime
trigger for Prostate Cancer. (More on
this to follow)
Of course the main reason I came to Bastyr was to see what
form of Naturopathic Treatment for Prostate Cancer was available. You should have seen the looks on
their faces when I first mentioned possible Prostate Cancer. From their
expressions you would think I had used a four-letter word. Before I said
anything else they immediately informed me that they could not treat any Cancer
condition unless I was first under the active care of a licensed medical
physician. Seems it’s the Law. Now I know at some obscure level this may be for
our society’s general good, but it’s my body, and let’s face it except for
broken bones and urgent surgeries in the past, the standard medical care in
this Country leaves much to be desired. Shows you how truly screwed up we are
when it comes to real health, government over-regulation, lack of personal
responsibility, and frivolous lawsuits. What we are missing is a holistic
approach to medicine, opening up all possible alternatives for healing. Medical
doctors all too often have tunnel vision and can’t begin to think
outside the box. But I digress. We decided on a plan to improve my overall immune
functioning and they strongly recommended I see a medical physician for the
potential Prostate Cancer. My immediate fear was that a medical physician would
probably want me to do just one thing… a Prostate Biopsy.
Next installment: Decision for the Prostate Biopsy Step Two
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