Whilst all the medics have been poking and prodding, scanning and MRIing we in the background have been researching to find out what things we can be doing to help to get through this ordeal as affectively as possible.
I decided quite early on to ignore what stage I am and what the prognosis is because in the end the only stat that matters is the John Gotley stat. That stat is going to be ‘success’ because of all the things I am doing and will continue to do that will help me succeed.
I have been having acupuncture from Sally Connelly in Cheltenham who is a superstar. At the end of one of the sessions she asked if we had watched ‘Heal’. It is a Netflix documentary that interviews a number of people that deploy techniques to help cancer sufferers heal. It is American so don’t be too surprised that the God Conduit and the Music Wizard didn’t resonate with me! It is fair that they have their role with some but it is difficult to see the science in what they do. To be clear, for me to believe, I need to see the path is scientifically based and makes common sense. NO running naked through fields smoking wacky backy. (maybe 35 years ago but not now!)
Two people did resonate with me more that the rest and they are certainly part of my plan.
The first person is Dr David Hamilton. He was a chemist who worked for a big pharmaceutical company designing and testing new cancer treatments. When they did the trials they were getting c75% success but extraordinarily the placebo group were achieving 40-65% success rates, this is what started to interest him. He left and has spent the last 15 years developing and refining the placebo effect. This is a methodology which harnessing the mind to help the body cure many different types of disease. He has developed a series of 28 short lectures that explain his solution. They are on his website under Placebo School. www.drdavidhamilton.com
You can see a number of his lectures on YouTube that give a pretty good idea as well
The second is a book by Kelly Turner, PhD who is the New York Times bestselling author of Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds which summarises her research into the radical remission of cancer – when someone heals from cancer without Western medicine or after Western medicine has failed.. Over the past decade, she has conducted research in 10 different countries and analysed over 1,500 cases of radical remission. In each of the cases that she talks about, these people did many things to try and stop the seemingly inevitable. There were 9 things though that were common to the vast majority of them. Her book goes through them one by one. In addition she has a series of lectures on line www.Kelly-Turner.com that you can buy if the book resonates. Her website has the course and you can buy the book on Amazon.
These are two of the protagonists in my story however the best is yet to come…..!
A journey along the gotley canal! 
When I am doing prayers at church on Easter Sunday I’ll include you as “a general sufferer and sick note” but not by name !! You never know the prayers from Poulton’s congregation may be as useful as the Placebo route !!
Hopefully see you Mon pm @ The Daneway. S
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