Logan Treatment Begins

The commencement of treatment felt like an experiment, and that’s a humbling feeling.  Any scientist knows all too well that an experiment is conducted because you don’t know the answer.  You don’t have a solution to the problem.  If you knew the solution, you wouldn’t have a need to conduct the experiment.  In the experiment, you surrender control and your next moves are guided by the outcomes of the test.  It’s turning over the wheel of the car.  It’s a realization that every day, we all turn over the wheel of the car in one way or another.

I started Logan’s  treatment with the materials I had in hand, which were the 3 day of tick homeopathic remedy and the Boswellia carterii.  Amazingly, he perked up over those 3 days.  He had more energy, and with each burst of excitement he showed my hope grew that perhaps this path could fend off the inevitable, for just a while longer. 

Then the milk thistle and melatonin arrived.  After the first dose of melatonin, Logan seemed sluggish the following morning.  Then came the soft stools from the milk thistle.  I felt discouraged and sent Patti the oncologist death letter with a defeatist position that maybe Logan was too advanced for this course of action.  Patti, however, asked me to call her.  She sympathized with my concern that I was causing Logan harm and conveyed a principle of Chinese Medicine whereby this initial treatment is designed to move things through Logan’s system and restore him.  In other words, one should expect things to get a little worse before they get better.  Yet, in the context of the report, she recommended pulling back on the milk thistle until Logan re-stabilized.  In the interim, she said she would be sending out another homeopathic treatment (Chelidonium) that Logan would take over 3 days.  Thereafter, I would resume the milk thistle.

Once again, Patti was right.  After 3 days of the homeopathic treatment, Logan  began to flourish again One night while fixing dinner he got so excited he chased his tail, moving rapidly in circles with boundless joy.