About My Cancer Healing

In  November 2019 I had surgery on my right jaw removing two fairly large cancerous tumors and one lymph node, but had found three smaller tumors on my right lung during the process.  Removing them would require a much longer surgery & recovery, risking more damage to my already ailing heart which was only working at 30-35% due to its’ lower chamber not working at all. Having only one heart beat and it being irregular, I opted to just wait & watch.

 

In April 2022 after 18 moths of tests, consultations and evaluations my family Dr. sat me down for the dreaded news. The tumors were growing faster now and a different type of tumor and lymph node showed up glowing brightly in my left lung, probably spreading cancer to who knows where. Without treatment I was now deemed terminal. “Oh well, things are the way the are. Deal with it.”  That’s just the way I always thought. This was no different.

 

I already had a feeling things were leaning that way and already begun the year before slowly sorting things.  Rearranging assets, liquidating distractions, remastering old music I still retained the rights to, recording what I had put off for a better offer. My daily naps had increased and the effects of the pain meds slowed those studio sessions to a crawl. Also, I began spending a lot of time researching questions of eternity as well. 

I stuck with what I was most familiar with, Christianity. I read, listened and consulted priests, reverends and historians. Books, podcasts and documentaries were sought out gathering nuggets of continuity I could put together later. The one vehicle they all seemed to hold in highest regard as their center piece of healing was Prayer.  

 

By 2023 my days started coming earlier, often starting at 3am. Sometimes with a weighted pain across my chest, sometimes by a sharp pain from my right lung. I didn’t panic, I knew it was just His way of waking me up with something to show me or listen to. I always got up quietly, went to the studio for my coffee & pain meds and began with my version of prayer. Sometimes I would listen to what I had remastered or recorded the day before while in the middle of these prayers. Blending these two seemed to help in healing my confidence with both. Unknowingly, with my cancer as well.

 

The first part of January 2025 I was trying to get over another lung infection when late one night my heart began racing out of control. From 37 to 127 bpm my breathing was more than erratic. The ambulance took me to the local hospital where they calmed it down with a couple of shots of nitro and the Dr. on call ran a CAT-Scan checking for a blood clot in my left lung. It was negative so I went home. My regular Dr. was out of the country then, but I got to see him four days later.  He came in smiling, which he had never done before. He said “I compared the CAT-scan we did in 2023 to the current one and guess what…the tumors in right lung have stabilized. No new growth at all. The larger tumor in my left lung which had become layered…has shrunk! 2mm. It’s never suppose to do that. No treatment, no therapy and it shrinks? Whatever you’ve been doing, keep doing it.” I just shrugged my shoulders. “OK” and left it at that.

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