My name is Andy, and I healed from stage-4 metastasized bladder cancer without invasive chemotherapy or radiation. I was diagnosed in May, 2014 and knew practically nothing about cancer. I believed I was in reasonably good health: I ate healthy food, exercised at the gym 3 times per week. I strived to live a balanced life physically, emotionally, socially, intellectually and spiritually. But I discovered through the process of healing from cancer that I was doing about 2/3 of everything well, but I needed to step that up to about 95%.
Perhaps my optimism about healing began in the late 1970s by attending a series of classes on Wellness which focuses on self-care, rather than remedies for sickness. I have had a "wellness attitude" ever since.
"I learned to listen to my body with an inner concentration like meditation to get guidance as to when to exercise and when to rest. I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate." - Rollo May
By learning as much as I could as I went along, keeping an open mind, and listening to the counsel of supportive friends and healing practitioners that I trusted, I put together a self-styled, integrated plan—without originally intending to do that!
When it was clear that I was on the way to a complete recovery by the end of 2015, my stepdaughter, Sarah, strongly suggested (and made me promise) to create this blog describing my experience to share the knowledge and insights about healing for the benefit of other people living with cancer. I completed the first version of this blog in Spring, 2016.
My passion is information organizing and people networking using integral consciousness. Professionally I’m an Internet pioneer both as a software developer and a network engineer. As my stepdaughter put it: “everything you learned up until now prepared you to be able to recover.”
I’m presenting the information here primarily in two different ways:
1) A summary of recommendations of what worked for me and why—plus references. This should help people who don’t want to read how I derived this information.
2) A chronological account (as separately dated postings) of how I pieced together a self-styled, integrated approach to healing as I proceeded through dozens of appointments with medical professionals both in Western and Eastern medicine. { Note: this is still pending as of 2024. }
Western medicine provided monitoring, measuring and testing. Eastern medicine provided holistic treatment for optimal energy balancing and natural healing. By the end of 2016, my Western doctors had variously described my healing as “the miracle recovery” and “the miracle patient”.
I employed acupuncture, extreme diet, non-dual meditation, detoxification, oxygenation, exercise, affirmations, etc. etc. Read on in the Summary...