It has now been six months since I started this journey and almost everything in my life has changed. My diet and lifestyle are completely different: No meat, no dairy (other than occasional goat cheese and goat yogurt), no sugar, no white flour, limited amounts of fruit and high volumes of vegetables and fresh vegetable juice. In addition to taking exorbitant amounts of supplements, I’ve changed every product I use from shampoo to laundry detergent to avoid chemicals and carcinogens. I work very hard at getting eight hours of sleep each night, have become an avid runner and I read astronomical amounts of information about health and nutrition. I’m not even sure I recognize myself anymore!This is a picture of us with Dr. Simoncini. I received eight treatments from him while in Rome and need to wait two months to have another ultrasound to find out whether the treatments were successful. I’m scheduled to revisit my oncologist in late January. Until then, I am continuing on with a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Simoncini has been an oncologist for 30 years. He stopped administering chemotherapy and radiation many years ago as he watched the devastating toll it was taking on so many. He began treating cancer as a fungus with sodium bicarbonate nearly 20 years ago. He has had a 90% success rate. I found Dr. Simoncini to be a very wonderful man. He feels he is doing God’s work and tirelessly continues in the face of those who are trying to shut him down.
If you have found this blog because you’re wanting to receive treatment from Dr. Simoncini, my husband and I are putting together a packet of information to help others trying to navigate his direction. Leave me a comment with your email address and I’ll send it to you as well as try to answer any questions you may have.
Please pray for continued grace in this journey. Though I try and follow the advice of my nutritionist, I recently realized I have little understanding of the “whys” of all I’m doing. I’m trying to research each supplement I’m taking as well as the benefits of a vegan diet. Thank you so much for all of your love, support and prayers. Truly we feel very loved and abundantly blessed.
Beth you amaze me. Merry Christmas to you guys. Please tell Dave I said hello.
ReplyDeleteThere is a book called "Green for Life" that I think you would really enjoy. It has a lot of info on cancer and the power of leafy greens, also interesting info on juicing. I think you would REALLY learn alot from reading it! I did :) I am not sure if she is a christian, and there are some things I disagree with her about- but the nutritional info and cancer info is amazing and she really backs it up with science.
ReplyDeleteLet me know if you decide to read it and what you think!It changed the way we eat!
We are praying for you and we love you! May the Lord bless you and your family!!!
Lots of Love,
The Granicks
Thank you for keeping us updated!
ReplyDeleteBlessings to you and we pray for a great report in January.
Have a Merry Christmas and you are in our prayers!
your committment is astounding and inspiring.
ReplyDeleteis this the way we all should be living in order to avoid cancer altogether, or is this a more radical step for once you've been diagnosed?
have a very BLESSED and merry Christmas this year Beth and family.
wow... Beth, you astound me. I am not sure I could do what you are able to do right now.
ReplyDeleteYou bless me so much.
hey.. not sure I have your current address... could you email me?? shanygne.gullickson@gmail
Love you so much!
From Joy Bergstedt: Beth, I don't know you personally but I am mom to both Nate and Rachel Bergstedt...HA/Garden Valley, TX alumni. I am praying for you and your family. I would like to connect you with our friend Evey Lappi from either Champion, MI or the very small town next to Champion called Republic. Evey's husband is David. Sorry I don't have her ph. # at my fingertips. BUT...I wish to quote from her Christmas letter we just received on 12/24/08. To you who have been our "earth angels", we wish to give a heartfelt THANK YOU...for your prayers, support and gifts. It has been nearly five years since we received the diagnosis of my breast cancer. The medical community gave me, Evey, 3 months to 5 years with chemo and radiation, following surgery. However, with God's guidance we were led on an alternative path and chose natural healing instead. This was partly due to a weak immune system (WBC 2). Recently were were told by the doctor that Evey is in the TOP 1% of 2004 metastatic Breast Cancer survivors. We thank God for each new day of life and health.
ReplyDeleteBeth, I know Evey well and she has told me she'd be very happy to talk with any of my friends who are fighting the disease. Simply go to google and to white pages and you should be able to get their phone number. I hope you will feel free about calling Evey. You'll love a wonderful new Christian friend fighting the same fight. Just tell her Joy Bergstedt encouraged you to call. Know I am praying BELIEVING Jesus is still in the business of doing miracles. In Jesus' love, Joy B.
Beth, I am very interested in hearing about your visit to Dr. Simoncini. I have bladder cancer and am within a week of beginning conventional treatment. Would LOVE to hear from you about the sodium bicarbonate treatment.
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Many blessings,
Bill
Beth,
ReplyDeleteI just got your Christmas letter in the mail and it lead me here. This has so inspired me, I especially love the picture from Cole....it brought me to tears. You are continually in my prayers. Love, Nicole Bender
Wow! What an exciting two months for you & David. Who would've thought you would end up in Rome & treated there? God weaves His will for us in extraordinary ways, and the unfolding of your story is exciting for us who read about it. I got such a warm feeling inside for you and Jesus by reading your story. I'm sure I'm not the only one. It's also a reminder to tell our own God stories to those around us so that we can minister to others and also be ministered to. That's the gift of being part of the Body of Christ. I was thinking of how you were blessed by that couple in the restaurant...kinship in Christ at its best. Well, blessings to you & David, and to your children. I wonder what is going on in their minds as they watch and listen to you & David.
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If you could please send some information my way. My mom was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in May of 07. She was taken off of chemo in Feb of this year and has been on Femara. Her cancer has recently came back in fluid and she is awaiting to find out what the doctors want to do from here. Thank you for the information!! Email address: livingmemories@iw.net Sincerely, Erin Anderson (Noram)
ReplyDeleteBeth, we think of you frequently and are praying for you and the family. I will send you an update on Annette soon. We are excitedly anticipating your results and pray for stamina to continue in all your healthy decisions for as long as needed.
ReplyDeleteSo thankful for the update and so impressed and proud of you. And challenged as well. And wondering how you research the shampoos, etc to know what the good ones are and are not.
ReplyDeleteYou look lovely and healthy!
Much love to you!!
We seem to be "journeying" through observation and prayer for quite a few like you battling cancer. Your journey has been far different than the others I know.
ReplyDeleteYour choices are admiring and I pray an inspiration to many, both as treatment and preventative measures.
We continue to agree with you for the complete manifestation of your healing!
Dear Beth,
ReplyDeleteI should introduce myself my name is Anna Carnes I was an intern in 2003 and 3004, I worked for Dave in his office for a short time as one of my many ministry placements, he and your family have impacted my life in such a deep way, I’m still very good friends with Mellissa Lutton, and she gave me the link to your blog. I have been praying for you and your whole family as you have been in this battle, I have been reading your updates and I look forward to hearing a good report about the treatment you received in Rome from your holistic doctor.
I am a flight attendant for continental airlines… now living in New Jersey working out of the Newark airport and I was flying today, when I happened to notice a man eating extremely healthy sitting in first class, so I struck up a conversation with him, and then he started to tell me that he is a 2 time breast cancer survivor and has changed his heath and has taken drastic measures to eat healthy, and he said this recovery is about 90% as a result of his disciplined eating habits. I immediately thought of you and new I needed to get his information and tell you about him as an encouragement to you that what you are doing works and the power of God will help you everyday to stay on this hard track to heath.
He told me that he has gotten a lot of his nutritious advice from the book The China Study http://www.thechinastudy.com/about.html and he also did some treatment and received life changing heath tips from a place in West Palm Beach, FL called The Hippocrates Health Institute http://www.hippocratesinst.org/ I just had to share with you the advice and knowledge I received from this very nice man eating dry salad and avocado. I do know that his career is in the law as a judge and his first name is Tucker. He gave me his email leemel03@gmail .com I did tell him about you, and said I woulf give you his contact info if you were interested in contacting him…. he would be happy to share more with you. I gave him your name and you can jog his memory by telling him you are the lady that he heard about though the flight attended on the flight from New York to Huston.
Take care Beth! and please keep us up to date on your journey. I prayed for you today when God brought you to my mind through this man. Please take a look at these two sites and maybe you can find something you have not heard before. Tell dave i said hello.
God bless,
Anna
Dear Beth,
ReplyDeleteI should introduce myself my name is Anna Carnes I was an intern in 2003 and 3004, I worked for Dave in his office for a short time as one of my many ministry placements, he and your family have impacted my life in such a deep way, I’m still very good friends with Mellissa Lutton, and she gave me the link to your blog. I have been praying for you and your whole family as you have been in this battle, I have been reading your updates and I look forward to hearing a good report about the treatment you received in Rome from your holistic doctor.
I am a flight attendant for continental airlines… now living in New Jersey working out of the Newark airport and I was flying today, when I happened to notice a man eating extremely healthy sitting in first class, so I struck up a conversation with him, and then he started to tell me that he is a 2 time breast cancer survivor and has changed his heath and has taken drastic measures to eat healthy, and he said this recovery is about 90% as a result of his disciplined eating habits. I immediately thought of you and new I needed to get his information and tell you about him as an encouragement to you that what you are doing works and the power of God will help you everyday to stay on this hard track to heath.
He told me that he has gotten a lot of his nutritious advice from the book The China Study http://www.thechinastudy.com/about.html and he also did some treatment and received life changing heath tips from a place in West Palm Beach, FL called The Hippocrates Health Institute http://www.hippocratesinst.org/ I just had to share with you the advice and knowledge I received from this very nice man eating dry salad and avocado. I do know that his career is in the law as a judge and his first name is Tucker. He gave me his email leemel03@gmail .com I did tell him about you, and said I woulf give you his contact info if you were interested in contacting him…. he would be happy to share more with you. I gave him your name and you can jog his memory by telling him you are the lady that he heard about though the flight attended on the flight from New York to Huston.
Take care Beth! and please keep us up to date on your journey. I prayed for you today when God brought you to my mind through this man. Please take a look at these two sites and maybe you can find something you have not heard before.
God bless,
Anna