September-Ocober 2011 -
Unexpected Health Challenges

September-October 2011 is the first time since Spring 2011, that our lives have been close to "normal" once again.

April brought so many unanticipated changes in my life that I totally forgot about writing Saving Supplement Solutions! I was definitely looking for them, but I didn't have time to write about them.

When I last wrote in early spring, I'd just found out we were needed on a late spring mission trip to Puerto Rico...

Five days before we were to leave, our plans were abruptly changed when my husband, Dennis, came down with pneumonia.

His sickness caused the last minute cancelling of our trip to Puerto Rico, and the time we would have spent in the tropics, was spent instead in doctor's offices, sleep centers, and hospitals.

Finally, Friday, the 27th of May, Dennis was operated on, and diagnosed with lung cancer. They took two thirds of his right lung in the operation, and staged the cancer at 1B. He was in the hospital from then until the following Wednesday, June 1st.

I always go with him when he has to be in the hospital, so we spent Memorial day there together this year.

At this point you'd think things had gotten about as bad as they could get, but you'd have been wrong.

Although he seemed to continue healing for two days after getting home, by Friday his temperature was rising again, and he was in severe pain within two hours after taking each dose of pain medicine.

They had sent him home with one drain still in his chest wall, and he thought that was causing the pain.

I did call the doctor to try to get them to take the drain out that Friday. Additionally, I was concerned because of the increasing fever and pain which made me suspect he was getting an infection.

But the nurse practitioner, from the surgeon's office, I talked with, didn't seem concerned. She scheduled an appointment for the following Monday to take the drain out, and suggested I piggy-back over the counter pain medication in between his prescriptions, to help with the pain. We did that, and I tried giving him a natural antibiotic, but...

It was a very long week-end!

On Monday, when they finally pulled the drain, they realized Dennis had a full blown MRSA infection. If you aren't familiar with that term, it is a hospital acquired, antibiotic resistant infection that is usually life-threatening.

The doctor immediately hospitalized him again, and they started giving him IV antibiotics around the clock. Finally, after another five days in the hospital, we went home for the last time, late on the night of June 10th.

Since then he has slowly been improving, although he had another setback about the middle of the summer when he passed a kidney stone. The kidney stone caused a urinary tract infection which took him another two weeks to get over.

After that problem, we decided he needed to add an immune system booster to the other treatments he was using to heal from the cancer. Since then it seems he has truly turned the corner, and is slowly, but steadily, recovering.

September-Ocober 2011
Lessons Recently Learned

I'm more convinced than ever that, although conventional medical treatments may at times be necessary, they are a threat to your health.

I'm thankful Dennis has survived the past six months, but apart from the miraculous healing of God, he will never have the health and strength he enjoyed before.

Was the operation necessary to save his life?

Maybe, he at least felt it was at the time, or he wouldn't have had it. I understood his concerns, and was willing to have the surgery as well, although I feared he would lose more of his lung than he expected. And my fears were well founded...

The surgeon had assured us even if the tumor were cancerous, he would only take the upper lobe of his right lung, but, as I mentioned above, when he came out of surgery, he had removed the upper two lobes of his right lung!

We couldn't say, "No we didn't want that done, put it back!"

It was too late.

Not surprisingly, he has struggled to breathe ever since the operation.

I've written a page about what causes cancer, but I've not yet written about how it can best be treated, and cured.

I do have some ideas about those topics, and I've been learning about them. But it is too soon to write about them with any assurance that my ideas are true and trustworthy. So I'm waiting, researching, learning, and practicing those things I'm learning, to prove their worth.

When I've had the time to be sure I know what I'm talking about, I promise to share the things I've learned, and am learning, with you all.

September-Ocober 2011
Other News

We took a week to go to Branson, MO with friends. And, although we had to post-pone it, we were able to take the nieces and a nephew to family camp, the first week of August.

So it's not surprising I didn't have much time to keep up with Saving Supplement Solutions during these past few months.

My plans to write every other month just never materialized. Instead, I struggled just to get a few pages written for the website.

Nonetheless, the time has been jam packed with opportunities to learn about the value of good health supplements, and how they can help you regain your health.

I will be sharing those lessons with you in the coming months.

In addition to my husband's cancer diagnosis, I've had close friends diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes as well.

So these are some of the health challenges I have been, and will be, addressing in the coming months. I also hope to share more on effective weight loss plans, effective, yet economical, detoxifying agents, and skin rejuvenating formulas as well.

September-Ocober 2011
No Chemotherapy!

They did everything their doctors told them to do, but the only result was they were miserably sick for the last several years of their lives.

Due to the size and type of his tumor, the doctors recommended chemotherapy.

I had chemotherapy after my cancer surgery, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

If your immune system is weak enough to allow cancer to develop, how does poisoning it further, enhance your chances for survival?

I asked my chemotherapy doctor that question, but I never got an answer that satisfied me from him at all!

I don't believe it does. I believe I survived my bout with cancer in spite of the chemotherapy, not because of it.

I definitely didn't want Dennis to have it, because after his bout with MRSA, I suspected chemotherapy might have killed him.

He didn't want it either.

So we've been treating his health with alternative treatments ever since he left the hospital and finished his prescription antibiotic.

I will share with you in the coming months the therapies we've used, why we chose them, and what the results have been for his health.

The doctors say this type of cancer will come back, it is just a matter of when...

I'm thankful I know the God who holds our lives in His hands, and I know my husband is immortal until God is through with him.

I'm trusting Him to show us the supplements we can use, and other things we can do, to help him regain, and keep, his health.

September-Ocober 2011
Looking Forward

Dennis is doing well, although he struggles with tiredness, and shortness of breath regularly.

However, he hasn't had to be on oxygen at all since leaving the hospital, although the doctors said he might need it for up to three months after the operation.

His health does seem to be improving, so I trust the Lord has led us to the right treatments to help him. Everyone here seems to be surprised by how well he is doing.

For the first time, this trip we bought an air card, so I can work in the apartment without having to walk to the library every day. Although it didn't work for the first few days, once we got it set up, it has been great, and enabled me to get a lot more done, since I can work at night, not just during the day time.

Please forgive me for the personal emphasis of this edition, and for failing to faithfully send out these e-zines.

I intend to do better in the future, but if life has taught me anything in the past few months, it is that I may not be able to fulfill my intentions.

Please do subscribe to my blog, as well as this e-zine, since it will keep you updated about the latest topics on the site. I have managed to write several pages, although I wasn't able to publish an e-zine issue.

A final lesson that has been reinforced by these past few months is, I made a wise decision when choosing to start this website in order to supplement our income.

If I'd been working any other type of job, I'd have had to quit, or been unable to be there, as I wanted to be, for my husband. Yet, I've been able to work on the website when I could fit it in my schedule, and it has continued to improve and grow in spite of being neglected at times.

I'm planning to dedicate a good deal more time to it for the foreseeable future.

September-Ocober 2011
Could you Use Some Extra Money?

If you have a passion you'd like to share with others, you can't find a better company to help you do it than the one that hosts my websites.

In fact, they are so sure of that fact, they are offering $50,000 if anyone can find a better web hosting package than what they offer.

If you are in the least interested, please check it out at SiteSell Facebook. When you get there, click on the "$50,000 Challenge" tab in the left margin.

When I first heard about this I thought they must be crazy, I mean, after all, it is a big web out there, but the more I though about it, the more it makes sense. I know there is a lot of noise about success on the web, but how many people do you know who are living off their websites?

As I understand it, this is the heart of the challenge according to SBI...

"If you can find documented proof that another product (or product that is a collection of information and tools), delivers everything that SBI! does (or more), at the price of SBI! (or less) AND that the product documents prove greater success (with the depth and documentation of our proof of success), we will pay that person $50,000."

I know there are a lot of products out there that claim to make internet businesses possible, but SiteSell does far more than make claims. They offer the tools you need to succeed, and they are willing to offer proof that if you follow their instructions you can build a successful internet business.

I'm pretty excited about the whole thing. It seems like a win-win situation to me. I'm thinking about entering the challenge, and doing a little research on my own.

I've only heard of one other company that sounded like it might be close, and I'm definitely going to check it out. If SBI isn't the best, that $50,000 would be a big help during this recession.

If, as I suspect, they are, then I'll be doubly convinced by the time I finish my research, and I'll be reminded that I got a great deal when I started this website with SBI.

If you have any interest in internet business at all, now's the time to check out the possibilities. You don't have a thing to lose, and at least $50,000 to gain.

Supplementing Wisely for Improving Health,

Sherilyn