Brett's Blog
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Five years

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My final blog and thoughts... It was five years ago today, August 25, 2007, that I was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer. Six doctors...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

The chemo question

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The last eleven cancer patients who have contacted me have all said the same thing. They don't want to do chemotherapy. I don't bla...
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Monday, January 3, 2011

I had "new" cancer test three years ago

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Blood test to spot cancer gets big boost from J&J Associated Press/AP Online By MARILYNN MARCHIONE BOSTON - A blood test so sensitive...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Maintenance and Michael Douglas

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Long time no blog. I've been taking some new holistic medicine. It's called Agaricus Phalloides D4. It's extract from a poisono...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

CV247

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There’s a new cancer medicine called CV247. It stops the spread and growth of tumors. It was developed by Dr. John Carter, a veterinary sur...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

I must still be here for a reason

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I was scanned last Thursday and everything was clear.  So now I have another scan in October and one in January.  When those are clear then...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Health care bill for dummies

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Healthcare reform... Where? I started to read the health care bill and found a lot of it is written in "Lawyer" (Shakespeare was...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

I think cancer is scared to death of me

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I finally had the port removed from my chest. The port was a small medical device beneath the skin, through which drugs and chemo could be...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Laugh, pray, hope

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I was scanned today. It's so good to hear your doctor say, "I'll go over the scan with you if you want, but there's nothi...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Awesome news

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I met with my doctor from Germany yesterday. I never thought I would or could get excited about anything that has to do with medicine or t...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

I'm 80% out of the woods

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It'll be two years Friday-- January 8, 2010-- since I was CyberKnifed in Germany.  According to a number of cancer specialists, I'...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Gene therapy

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A friend of mine is on the list to go to Manchester, England for gene therapy. The results in the gene testing testing period were pretty ...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Cancer dream

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Last night I had a cancer dream.  I've had a couple in the past, but this one was seemingly so real. I woke up at 3:30 this morning in...
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Monday, December 14, 2009

Another fine mess

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It's one thing to listen to the news and watch all the Sunday morning political chat shows; it’s another to actually read and digest t...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Where's the reform?

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I’ve started to read portions of the 2,100 page healthcare reform bill. A half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts, 400 billion dollars in...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

How to pay for healthcare

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I have an idea. I've already sent several emails to elected officials. I suggested that "we the people" get the same insur...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Politics as usual

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If you’re following “The Great Healthcare Debate," read between the lines and you’ll realize it has little to do with healthcare at a...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Attitude is the best medicine

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With all the talk about medicines and costs, pharmaceutical companies and health care reform, I realized this morning that I’d overlooked ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Greedy drug makers

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I read an article in The New York Times yesterday that is, as far as I’m concerned, the "writing on the wall." The article sa...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Death card

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I was talking to my brother Bill on the phone a couple of days ago about something that I think should be addressed in this great healthca...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

All clear!

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I got scanned on Tuesday. I was supposed to get the results on Thursday but didn't. My brother Bill was over the house today asking ab...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Finished with thalidomide

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I really didn't have much to blog about because I was taking the thalidomide to remove the micro tumor cells found in my blood and doi...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Feeling good

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Four more weeks of thalidomide and then I send off another twelve vials of blood to Greece to see if the low-level micro tumor cells that ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

It was two years ago today

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It was two years ago today that I was diagnosed with stage four throat cancer. On that day, two doctors told me that if I didn't get a...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

“Uh-huh, oh... mmm, okay”

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It's never easy. After my scan, the doctor comes in and says that everything was fine, the lymph node is normal and my entire body is ...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Year 2

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I  get scanned again on Thursday. I always get anxious before a scan because I hate going in that tube. Being claustrophobic is no fun.  I...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Patrick Swayze

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I read an article in the Daily Mail newspaper from London about Patrick Swayze and his cancer battle. He looks much better than he did thr...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

England gets the CyberKnife

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England has finally gotten is first CyberKnife. It was reported yesterday in the UK Mirror: CyberKnife gives cancer cure hope 13/07/2...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

No, I don't have cancer

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Since I posted that last entry about the micro tumor cells in my blood, I’ve gotten lots of e-mails and phone calls from other cancer surv...
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Micro tumor cells

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I got the results of my blood test for micro tumor cells back from Greece. There are still some remaining tumor cells in my blood-- but a ...
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Saturday, July 4, 2009

I forgot to eat last night

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I got on the scale this morning. I've gained five pounds in six months. And I’ve been fighting hard to keep those five pounds on. I ne...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Farrah's legacy: "Keep fighting"

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I went to say goodbye to my friend Farrah yesterday. Her funeral service was beautiful. Her son Redmond read Lamentations 3:17-26, Ryan O...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Billions in profits, millions of lives

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Having lived in Canada for a year and a half and in England for almost two years, I can tell you firsthand that National Health Care or go...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

What runs downhill

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I'm posting on my iPhone from my doctor’s office while getting maintenance treatments: one IV drip of Vitamin C and another of an anti...
Monday, May 25, 2009

NOT alternative

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Many of you know that I appeared on the syndicated television show Extra last week, talking about Farrah and my own experience being treat...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Real health care reform

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                                                    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama predicted travails ahead for                     ...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Follow-up

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After my scope and scans were clear, my American doctors told me I was all done, to go home and they would see me in three months for anot...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Farrah's real story

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It was really tough for me to watch Farrah's Story on NBC the other night. Farrah Fawcett is my friend. I pray that she's comfor...
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