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I want to go into screaming fits every time I read or hear about someone young getting cancer. In fact,that is one of the prime reasons I can never accept that there is any such creature as a "kind and loving God".

I am glad you were able to survive,and sorry to hear you had to go through it.

@sneakypete oddly, I'm not sorry to have had to go through it.  You want to find happiness and meaning in life?  Reinforce your relationship with The Great Unknown?  Understand very clearly what is important and what isn't?  Find out what you're made of?  This is one way to do it.

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Wow! I never knew that.  Glad you beat it!

Thanks, and me too!

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@Sanguine I’m so glad you beat this
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@Sanguine I’m so glad you beat this

Thanks, Freya.  I'm lucky in many ways.

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@sneakypete oddly, I'm not sorry to have had to go through it.  You want to find happiness and meaning in life?  Reinforce your relationship with The Great Unknown?  Understand very clearly what is important and what isn't?  Find out what you're made of?  This is one way to do it.

@Sanguine

No question about that,but there are less painful ways to go about it.

I'm just glad you are here to write about it.
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@Sanguine

No question about that,but there are less painful ways to go about it.

I'm just glad you are here to write about it.

@sneakypete, some of us have to be hit over the head with a 2x4 before we pay attention.  I'm not sure I'm one of those people, but my attention was definitely gotten.

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Get hit with it, and it will seem like more than a 2 x 4.
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My Lymph Nodes are a twisted mess. When I had a Biopsy done this Feb for Prostate Cancer it was done topically (shaved slices of skin off the outside of the body) in the armpit and came back Positive.

Now a Similar condition with my Lymph Nodes has dogged me for 30 years, always with NO real diagnosis But the condition reverses itself and does Not become actually Cancerous.

THIS time, an Oncologist diagnosed me as having Stage 4 Castration Resistant Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

I remained awake through my last Biopsy. My 2 Doctors doing the biopsy Asked me if I I had Ever Had Cancer Before!

I said NO!

From what I can gather I have some black/blackish material between my Lymph Nodes and the surrounding tissue.

So far, my body has Stopped 2 global chemotherapeautic agents dead in their tracks: Zytiga and Oxytaxel. My Next chemo will be Bevnan (Cabrizataxel).

My Question is, has anyone Else run into these changes in Their body? Has anyone else had a Positive Identification of the material (blackish/brown) between Their Lymphatic Cells/Organs? Has it or has it Not been Med Lab Identified as Cancerous? 

If Not, has anyone Had this odd material and it's Condition actually Med Lab Identified?

It's more than an Academic question for me because my, uh, Team of Medical All Stars could Use a Direction to Look into, as I have run out of time.

So, Thanks very much to anyone with answers or guesses, they beat all hell out of just watching my own personal clock run even Farther out of bounds.


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My Lymph Nodes are a twisted mess. 

Now a Similar condition with my Lymph Nodes has dogged me for 30 years, always with NO real diagnosis But the condition reverses itself and does Not become actually Cancerous.

@To-Whose-Benefit?

This seems to be pretty common with lymphoma. I have it in the groin,stomach,and chest. Have had it since at least the early 1990's,when I suddenly went from 165 lbs or so,to around 230 lbs,and then a few years later bumped up to around 288 lbs.  The VA docs were the only ones I could afford to go to,and they kept telling me to quit drinking,eat a healthy diet,and get more exercise. It was,of course,my fault due to poor habits. Nothing to see here,folks.

This,despite me already being diagnosed and rated BY THE VA as an Agent Orange veteran,and lymphoma being the prime killer.

Finally,a few months ago my lungs filled up with water to the point I was having to have 2 quarts of fluid drained from them every 5 or 6 days to avoid drowning on dry land,and while in the CIVILIAN hospital being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat (24 beats per minute) that lead first to a stent being put in,and a couple of weeks later having a pacemaker put in. It was while I was in the hospital after the stent surgery and on a monitor that the heart surgeon noticed my procedures every few days to have my lung drained,and figured out I have lymphoma. Being a heart surgeon he wasn't qualified to make this diagnosis,but what he did was come to me and tell me he had a female doctor that was going to come and see me the next day,and to make sure to NOT leave the hospital until after she talked with me. Evidentially he shared some records with her because when she showed up at 7 AM the next morning she was ready to hit the ground running. She told me what I had and what she thought I needed to do about it,and had already made me an appointment to her clinic a few days later.

How this relates to you is the fact that it seems common for lymph gland cancer to live in your body and cause you problems for years while still remaining benign.

BUT......,when it turns malignant it means business because it is already well-rooted and has a head start with most people. I am only half-way though my initial treatment program,but so far I seem to have been one of the VERY lucky ones that caught it in time for the meds to really work well. IF everything continues to go well,it will be early August before my treatment is done. If it doesn't continue to go well,who knows how long it will continue? The surgeon ruled out a transplant right off the bat due to my age.

I am not a doctor and don't play one on teebee,but I think you need to contact a cancer clinic that has multiple doctors and offices. In other words,one big enough and professional enough to have a whole damn herd of cancer surgeons that can put their heads together at clinic meetings and discuss successful and unsuccessful treatments with each other.

This stuff is just too "big" at the stage you are to trust to a small practice .

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THIS time, an Oncologist diagnosed me as having Stage 4 Castration Resistant Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

Which,PLEASE NOTE,is NOT the form of cancer that I have,but it seems you also have lymph gland problems,so make DAMN SURE you get that checked out,also, Just because you may now have prostate cancer,doesn't mean you can't also have lymphoma.

Or some other diagnosed form of cancer that is making the primary cancer you are being treated for harder to treat.

 
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I remained awake through my last Biopsy. My 2 Doctors doing the biopsy Asked me if I I had Ever Had Cancer Before!

I said NO!

Rookie mistake. You NEVER answer a question like when asked by doctors with the word "NO!". You ain't filling out an insurance policy application. You are a patient with medical problems,and the doctors have reasons to ask this of you or they wouldn't have asked it. In cases like this the answer should ALWAYS be some form of "Not as far as I know,but I guess it is possible."

These people are clinic docs. When someone gives them a definitive "No",due to their professional experiences,tend to THINK that this means you have been tested in the recent past and diagnosed as being cancer-free. Make sure you clear up any little misunderstanding like that at the start by NEVER giving a straight,unadorned "No" answer to such an important question. Remember,for all these guys know,you were given a clean bill of health by the Mayo Clinic a month ago. They know NOTHING about your medical treatment in the past that you don't tell them.

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From what I can gather I have some black/blackish material between my Lymph Nodes and the surrounding tissue.

I don't even have a clue about this,but would suggest that maybe you do a google search using your symptoms as key words,and then look for discussion groups that have cancers that may be related. You may not find the perfect answer at a discussion group,but it is likely you can find an answer that will give you an idea about what questions you need to ask your surgeons.


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So far, my body has Stopped 2 global chemotherapeautic agents dead in their tracks: Zytiga and Oxytaxel. My Next chemo will be Bevnan (Cabrizataxel).

I don't understand that. MY understanding,and I CAN be wrong,is that these days they tailor-make patient-specific chemo blends for each patient,so how can your system be rejecting it?

This is WHY they tailor-make patient-specific and cancer-specific chemo brews.

 
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If Not, has anyone Had this odd material and it's Condition actually Med Lab Identified?

I didn't see it,but I was later told by the surgeon that I was leaking black pus from my scrotum when I got to the ER with flesh-eating bacteria. Scared them so badly they burned all my clothes. They never named it,though. Said it smelled "like a open grave" and scared them.

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It's more than an Academic question for me because my, uh, Team of Medical All Stars could Use a Direction to Look into, as I have run out of time.

IMHO,you need a new All Star team. See if you can get a consult appointment with the Mayo Clinic or some other major clinic. Get copies of all your lab reports and doctors reports and make copies of them to mail out or fax. Call the major hospitals in your state that have cancer centers and see if you can get them interested. Once again,have data to fax or mail to them immediately.

Get proactive on a state-wide level while trying to work major US cancer centers in the background. You can find them by doing a web search for "major cancer research hospitals".

Do this TODAY!

 
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Morning Pete.

Last Week (thanks to the 2nd chemo) I wound up down on one knee unable to stand without help. (1st time in over 50 years.)

10 days later I get Another HHA worker. Out of the blue. Wants to do a Speech Apptitude test.

Within 3 words I threw her out.

The 9 scariest words in the English Language?

"We're from the Govt and we're here to help."
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I noticed this thread, read through it, and thought I would contribute some lessons learned in my life.

1993 I was a Financial Planner, investments and insurance, etc, and I scheduled an appointment with a couple that were referred to me.  Met them at their house where when I first sat down with them the husband said, 'don't know who you are, don't care, just get the f out of my house.  I scheduled the appointment with the wife. 

His name was Al, and one month prior to meeting him, he was reaching for a glass out of the cubboard and snapped a bone in his arm.  He was diagnosed with two forms of terminal cancer, multiple myeloma, and the end stage of prostate cancer.  Doctors gave him 2-3 months to live.  They immediately started him on Chemo.

Al was a tough minded business man, so he started doing his own research.  He discovered that using mega doses of shark cartilage had an impact on 60% of those with soft tissue cancer.  So, he started the program.  In a very short period of time, his prostate cancer went away, and his multiple myeloma went into full remission.

Al lived 5.5 years longer, living a normal life, running his business, playing golf, etc, and when he died, it was due to a terrible fall he took which shattered his pelvis in multiple places.  During those years, he and his wife became like a second set of parents and close friends.  I dined with them regularly, and learned a great deal from him.  He had a major influence on me and my mindset regarding cancer.  And BTW, his oncologist would refer his patients to Al to explain the benefits of the cartilage.  His doctor could not EVER mention cartilage because it is not a recognized therapy by the AMA.  His doctor admitted it was the cartilage and not the chemo or radiation that worked on Al.

It was about three years after I met him that my own father was diagnosed with lung cancer.  When I first learned his condition, I told him, at Al's insistence about the shark cartilage, but my parents were the type of people that if the doctor did not tell them to do it, they ignored the advice.  So my father went through chemo and radiation, and six months later was given a clean bill of health from the good doctors.

Six months later, he developed a metastasized tumor in his esophogus.  He could no longer swallow food, not even his saliva without choking.  Doctors inserted a feeding tube in his abdomen, and they told him he had 2-3 months to live, that he was maxed out on chemo and radiation, and offered NOTHING therapeutically for my father.  They said, get your affairs in order, there is nothing we can do.

I then sat down with my parents, and I asked my father, do you want to live?  Of course he looked at me like I was an idiot, but he responded, absolutely.  So I said, are you ready to listen to me now?  He said, what do you want me to do?  I said, take the shark cartilage.  So, he agreed to do it.

My father lived two years taking the shark cartilage.  And then he stopped one day, because while he could not swallow, from his incessant coughing, he would regurgitate the content of his stomach, and he did not like the then fishy taste of the cartilage, so he stopped taking it.  My father was as finicky a person as I ever knew.  He would not eat guaccamoli because of the color, etc

In one month a tumor popped out on his leg, and doctors surgically removed it.  In one more month he was dead.  The cartilage halted the grow of the tumor in his esophogus and allowed him to continue to live his life.  And he did maintain a relatively normal life.  He was a rabid Steeler fan, and he and his best friend went to every home game.  The two of them and the wives were also rabid bridge players, playing bridge every week for roughly 35+ years of their lives together.  And of course, he got to enjoy his family, for we all at the time lived within 3 miles of one another.

Bottomline, I could go through a dozen case studies of people that I encouraged to take shark cartilage.  In every case, it was after there was no hope left from doctors and conventional medicine, and in every case, their lives were prolonged by years!

If you go online, you will see a number of articles that say it is all bullsh*t.  It is not.  Both my mother and mother-in-law benefited from the shark cartilage.  Both were survivors of prior bouts of cancer, both turning up with breast cancer, again!  In my mother's case, the doctor told her the chemo and radiaiton was not helping to shrink her tumor.  She also had breast cancer on her cleavage.

Now my mother was worse than my father about doing only what the doctor said, so it was not until he said his therapies were not working and my sister nagged her for hours each day that she relented.  She took the cartilage, and the cancer on her cleavage went away in one month.  When she went to the doctor, he all but fell out of his shoes in shock, according to her.  He said her tumor was shrinking, and she never mentioned she was using shark cartilage to him.  She was progressing to be free of cancer when she too took a tumble down a staircase, cracked her head open and died the next day.

So, not to bore all of you to death, there is a lot to know about cartilage and other things that greatly benefit those with cancer that doctors will never tell you.  Rather than bore you to death, I am happy to discuss what I know with anyone interested in talking further.  And by the way, my mother-in-law was a physician, a pathologist, and her life was prolonged two years as well.

Feel free to contact me.  My email is medpgh@gmail.com
And note, I am not selling anything, but I am always happy to help others, particularly against one of the ugliest diseases I know.
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What to expect.

Last week I went down on one knee in the kitchen, it wasn't a Fall but down on one knee and a cane without the strength to haul myself back up.

Against better advice I let someone call an Ambulance and take me to a hospital.

Once there I was put in an Anti Fall Unit, assigned a boundary buzzer bead, and given Crap crap ever time I Tried to go to to to the can (with a bad prostate to boot, every 20 minunets. "Don"t Do That!"

And as a suspected Sedative Seeker, ignored for pain meds. (Hell of a way to fight cancer.)

Anyway, hardly the 1st time I been treated like shit by a hospital. Ignored and left unwashed for 48 hrs in a wet Hsp bed.

With an open streak of Stinking racial animus


And Currently dealing with a possible broken shoulder from an over zealous ambulance crew.
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Anyone got 2 cents here?
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Anyone got 2 cents here?



For my 2 cents...I think you are a tough hombre that will over come this.  In spite of it all.

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For my 2 cents...I think you are a tough hombre that will over come this.  In spite of it all.

He is! I’m up visiting him and just gave him a much needed pedicure. ❤️🐱
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Hey @berdie

Thanks. Worst case is I die in the stinking Communist CT Hamlet I was dropped in, and be Buried there till the jackass town at Some point finds yet Another moronic penny grubbing excuse to invoke emminent domain, Again.


For my 2 cents...I think you are a tough hombre that will over come this.  In spite of it all.
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Very interesting and potentially helpful into about the shark cartilage, @jafo2010   Thanks.
btw, I'm also a yinzer!  :beer: (those are tiny IC lights, which I'd never drink but seem to exemplify da Burgh).
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 Hallmarks of Socialized Medicine; Racism/Class Warfare. All Free/All Equal/in this case, intake processing cubicles at street level on a wind protected Ally. So They sit outside as the sun falls and launch Marxist Insults in through the back windows, which of course upset the license holding Workers who, while sympathetic, have a real Check, and are despised for it.

So who do They take it out on?

You Betchum.

I got Stage 4 paperwork and DEA controlled meds to be ignored, . . .
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He is! I’m up visiting him and just gave him a much needed pedicure. ❤️🐱

Hahaha.

If the. nails had gone any longer they would have qualified in a Vampire Flick for some grisly trimming scene.

I'm only surprised they didn't bleed as it was.
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Thanks. Same for you.

No radiated pellets implanted?  More direct.pin pointed.   Best wishes . 

I had chemo & radiation.  I would NEVER do radiation again
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No radiated pellets implanted?  More direct.pin pointed.   Best wishes . 

I had chemo & radiation.  I would NEVER do radiation again


Sounds like my last go round with chemo.

Before This Crap, I had no trouble squatting a lousy 225lbs. Radiologist said hang it up you risking a bone/joint fracture.

Two weeks ago I couldn't hoist a lousy 210lbs/my own carcass weight on just ONE KNEE.

I Watched the chemo burn my muscles Off like napalm. Loose chunks of them!

Unfortunately it's Got to be chemo now (stage 4) to get At the Mets.

Radiation will at best give you a Precision Game of Whack a Mole. ( And hope you don't Miss any of them).
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No radiated pellets implanted?  More direct.pin pointed.   Best wishes . 

I had chemo & radiation.  I would NEVER do radiation again

I did 44 daily radiation treatments. Pretty standard I understand. About July 1st I do a PSA blood test. Then visit the oncologist, to learn if the radiation got all or most of it.


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I did 44 daily radiation treatments. Pretty standard I understand. About July 1st I do a PSA blod test. Then visit the oncologist, to learn if the radiation got all or most of it.

@truth_seeker

Here is hoping it works out for you as well as it did for my friend. He had radiation treatment 5 days a week for 9 weeks,plus a few weeks of once a week chemo,and when he went for his appraisal last Friday I was dreading the phone call from his wife because I just KNEW he was dying and there wasn't a thing they could do to stop it. His arms were less than half the size they had been before he got sick,and they were never big to start with.

Damned if they didn't tell him the tumor was gone!

You can never really tell by looking.

Yeah,he is still as weak as a kitten and most likely has several months to slowly and carefully try to build his strength back up before he is half of what he was,but the point is HE WILL BE HERE TO SLOWLY BUILD HIS STRENGTH BACK UP.
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Can't say exactly How @truth_seeker feels though I Expect, .  . . . We 're Both Real Appreciative of all the prayers and such are received on Both of our behalfs.

Ain't NO amount of money worth a beautiful sunrise with a beautiful lady. More the merrier, and only One place I Know to get them.

So @truth_seeker I'm setting up my God Box, and hoping there'll be Plenty of Kind Reminders in there for all of our Buddies here.

But why God, and not just science?

Count up all those years.

Too many other variables.

Not being a Scripture Hound I can tell you all, I Want to believe. But I can't tell you what Else I believe.

And I'd like to see all you Others who Want To Believe, get to Take that Journey.

Because Taking the Journey itself is the real prize. Not Holding the Deed, but taking the Trip!
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Know anything 'bout the discolored tissue abutting lymph nodes that @Sighlass is talking about Joe? Sounds like what I've hade for at least 25 years. Docs dunno so they all wanna put me in in freaking Hospice and write us us both off as incurable cancer patients. ???

I am also at a loss here TWB... I don't know the post  you are talking about. I don't remember talking about such.... Perhaps you can set me straight if I mislead you in any way.

That said, you are in my prayers sir. I wish I could do more and offer better advice. As is, I just sit here and remember that no matter how much I ache at times, there is those here that would trade places with me in a NY minute. That my sufferings are pale and I should be more thankful for what I have.

As I said, you are remembered in prayer here.
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How about some updates???????
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« Reply #78 on: September 20, 2019, 03:10:26 pm »
How about some updates???????

How about you first?  You were gone for a little while and I had to ask others about you.  Good to see you back, by the way. 

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How about you first?  You were gone for a little while and I had to ask others about you.  Good to see you back, by the way.

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In remission. Memory still sucks from chemo brain,but I am hoping to get more of it back before I am assigned a keeper.
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« Reply #80 on: September 22, 2019, 11:58:02 pm »
@Applewood

In remission. Memory still sucks from chemo brain,but I am hoping to get more of it back before I am assigned a keeper.

Pete, I’m glad you are in remission. I remember a few days before he died, TWB was asking about you. You are in my thoughts, my friend.
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« Reply #81 on: September 23, 2019, 01:19:22 am »
Pete, I’m glad you are in remission. I remember a few days before he died, TWB was asking about you. You are in my thoughts, my friend.

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In remission. Memory still sucks from chemo brain,but I am hoping to get more of it back before I am assigned a keeper.

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So glad to see you are in remission.  Good luck with the chemo brain.  I've read it's usually temporary.  Sure hope so.  My brain cells were scrambled 11 years ago thanks to a cardiac arrest (no oxygen to the brain).  However, most of my relatives and friends say they don't notice a difference.  LOL


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@sneakypete

So glad to see you are in remission.  Good luck with the chemo brain.  I've read it's usually temporary.  Sure hope so.  My brain cells were scrambled 11 years ago thanks to a cardiac arrest (no oxygen to the brain).  However, most of my relatives and friends say they don't notice a difference.  LOL

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Thanks for the good thoughts. I know I am getting better because I now have good memory days,and bad memory days. A month or so ago all I had were bad memory days.
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Very good to hear, Pete!
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« Reply #86 on: March 13, 2020, 02:27:09 pm »
It's about six months later, how are you feeling now Pete?

I don't know if I mentioned this story before on TBR before, but maybe this will help further for you or others.  In January, 1977, I was consulting to Classic Chemical in Camden, NJ, and flying Philly to Pittsburgh each week.  One Friday, I sat next to a woman, she said she was 49 years of age, and she started telling me her story.

Eighteen months prior, she was diagnosed with cancer in her vital organs in her abdomen, and told by doctors she has three months to live.  Now 15 years prior to this, she had cancer, went through chemo and radiation and given a clean bill of health.  So, again she has cancer, she made the conscience decision not to do chemo and radiation again, and decided to do the Layetril Diet(not sure of spelling).  For those of you old enough, you may remember this.  She explained it was mega doses of vitamins and minerals, restricted diet, no spicy food, no alcohol, coffee, tea or soda, and she was only allowed to drink distilled water or frozen concentrated juices with distilled water.  She also did other things too as part of the therapy.

In any case, her cancer went away completely.  She went on to say that she bought a water distiller to make her own water, and her whole family drank distilled water and found tap water offensive. 

End of 1978, I get married and move from Pittsburgh, PA, to Tampa, FL.  The water in Tampa is the worst in the country in my opinion.  Remembering what the woman above told me, I started buying distilled water off the shelf in the grocery store.  Did that for a year, bought my first house, and told my wife I am tired of lugging jugs of water from the grocery store.  Checked the yellow pages, and there was a couple listed selling distillers.  Bought one and have been drinking distilled water ever since.

I am a firm believer in drinking distilled water.  Why?  Chlorine and Flouride are extremely toxic and both are carcinogenic.
Also, municipalities add as many as 46 different chemicals to the water for treatment, which you would consume.  I consider tap water unsafe for long term living.  Look around at the people getting cancer.  It is no mystery to me why.

There is a lot to know about water, which is usually a boring subject for most.  My friend Al, who I mentioned further up the thread who used shark cartilage, I convinced him to also use only distilled water.  I believe with the many case studies I have witnessed, that distilled water helps purify the body, removing anything that does not belong. 

I believe firmly, I will never have a blocked artery, never have kidney or gall stones, never have arthritic deposits in my joints, etc.  There was a recent study published indicating that with virtually every Alzheimer patient, there was a buildup of a particular protein in the brain.  If this is true, I suspect I will never have that either.  Distilled water helps keep anything that does not belong to exit the body.  Bottomline, I believe one can extend their life ten years by drinking it.

For those that have cancer, I strongly recommend using distilled water.  If you look online, the detractors will say it leaches minerals out of the body.  Well, I have been drinking distilled water for 42 years, and I am in perfect health.  It is important to eat a balanced diet, and I also recommend taking a vitamin/mineral supplement daily.  If you have a poor diet, and eat junk, you will have a problem.  But then that is true regardless of drinking distilled water.

My closest roommate from college days was in good shape, athletic and active.  He was a sports reporter for a newspaper in Virginia, and he had chest pains at age 47 and was taken to a hospital and he died while they had him cracked open on the operating table.  He ate junk food every day for lunch, i.e. McDonalds, etc.

It is not only food that makes a difference going into your body.  Since your body is comprised of roughly 84% water, I believe the water you drink is just as important if not more so.


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« Reply #88 on: March 14, 2020, 12:16:16 am »
It's about six months later, how are you feeling now Pete?

I don't know if I mentioned this story before on TBR before, but maybe this will help further for you or others.  In January, 1977, I was consulting to Classic Chemical in Camden, NJ, and flying Philly to Pittsburgh each week.  One Friday, I sat next to a woman, she said she was 49 years of age, and she started telling me her story.

Eighteen months prior, she was diagnosed with cancer in her vital organs in her abdomen, and told by doctors she has three months to live.  Now 15 years prior to this, she had cancer, went through chemo and radiation and given a clean bill of health.  So, again she has cancer, she made the conscience decision not to do chemo and radiation again, and decided to do the Layetril Diet(not sure of spelling).  For those of you old enough, you may remember this.  She explained it was mega doses of vitamins and minerals, restricted diet, no spicy food, no alcohol, coffee, tea or soda, and she was only allowed to drink distilled water or frozen concentrated juices with distilled water.  She also did other things too as part of the therapy.

In any case, her cancer went away completely.  She went on to say that she bought a water distiller to make her own water, and her whole family drank distilled water and found tap water offensive. 

End of 1978, I get married and move from Pittsburgh, PA, to Tampa, FL.  The water in Tampa is the worst in the country in my opinion.  Remembering what the woman above told me, I started buying distilled water off the shelf in the grocery store.  Did that for a year, bought my first house, and told my wife I am tired of lugging jugs of water from the grocery store.  Checked the yellow pages, and there was a couple listed selling distillers.  Bought one and have been drinking distilled water ever since.

I am a firm believer in drinking distilled water.  Why?  Chlorine and Flouride are extremely toxic and both are carcinogenic.
Also, municipalities add as many as 46 different chemicals to the water for treatment, which you would consume.  I consider tap water unsafe for long term living.  Look around at the people getting cancer.  It is no mystery to me why.

There is a lot to know about water, which is usually a boring subject for most.  My friend Al, who I mentioned further up the thread who used shark cartilage, I convinced him to also use only distilled water.  I believe with the many case studies I have witnessed, that distilled water helps purify the body, removing anything that does not belong. 

I believe firmly, I will never have a blocked artery, never have kidney or gall stones, never have arthritic deposits in my joints, etc.  There was a recent study published indicating that with virtually every Alzheimer patient, there was a buildup of a particular protein in the brain.  If this is true, I suspect I will never have that either.  Distilled water helps keep anything that does not belong to exit the body.  Bottomline, I believe one can extend their life ten years by drinking it.

For those that have cancer, I strongly recommend using distilled water.  If you look online, the detractors will say it leaches minerals out of the body.  Well, I have been drinking distilled water for 42 years, and I am in perfect health.  It is important to eat a balanced diet, and I also recommend taking a vitamin/mineral supplement daily.  If you have a poor diet, and eat junk, you will have a problem.  But then that is true regardless of drinking distilled water.

My closest roommate from college days was in good shape, athletic and active.  He was a sports reporter for a newspaper in Virginia, and he had chest pains at age 47 and was taken to a hospital and he died while they had him cracked open on the operating table.  He ate junk food every day for lunch, i.e. McDonalds, etc.

It is not only food that makes a difference going into your body.  Since your body is comprised of roughly 84% water, I believe the water you drink is just as important if not more so.
I have been drinking distilled water for about 20 years. Sometimes bottled water, rarely soda, no alcohol. I have found that distilled water makes the best coffee. WHile we didn't do it for health reasons at first (at least not ours) we had found that tap water from the local water plant (which comes from the Missouri River before processing) had a muddy taste in the spring despite the clean test results sent out every year. Believing that pesticides and herbicides might be present, we filtered that for a year before finally switching to distilled. Mrs. Joe and I are on no medication, have no heart or other issues, and are reasonably healthy for our mid 60s.

My tussle with cancer was limited to a nickel sized basal cell carcinoma, and that right on the cheek where I held cell phones for years, with a  few thousand hours of phone time.  (I use the speaker phone, now).
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« Reply #89 on: March 14, 2020, 12:38:52 am »
I would think some contaminants that have a lower boiling point than water would pass right through the distillation process.

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« Reply #90 on: March 14, 2020, 01:22:41 pm »
I would think some contaminants that have a lower boiling point than water would pass right through the distillation process.
Sure, but you vent those, just like distilling diesel fuel from crude oil.
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« Reply #91 on: March 14, 2020, 03:04:58 pm »
Sure, but you vent those, just like distilling diesel fuel from crude oil.

Why wouldn't it condense with the water? (I'm not a chemistry dude...).

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« Reply #92 on: March 14, 2020, 04:29:11 pm »
Why wouldn't it condense with the water? (I'm not a chemistry dude...).
It would if you didn't vent it.

If it boils off at a lower temperature, you run up to just short of boiling water, vent the vapors, and that way those lighter ends go to atmosphere (unless you have a place or reason to capture them).  Distilling alcohol, you capture (selectively) the alcohol vapors and leave the water behind. Run through that a couple of times you can get up to 90-95% (Everclear) alcohol captured.
Moonshiners do it with pretty basic equipment.

If you switched to a different condenser and continued the the distillation process, with a mite more heat, you could boil the kettle dry and condense distilled water, too, but that isn't the product that pays the bills in a 'shine operation.

Similarly, I have seen video where Indonesians were distilling diesel from crude oil, about a barrel at a time, by smelling the vapor, capturing it and condensing it, leaving the heavier fractions in the pot, so to speak, and letting the lighter ones vent to atmosphere before capture.  It isn't the most environmentally system, but they made a marketable (locally) product on a small scale. It is pretty common in Nigeria, as well, despite being environmentally unfriendly and downright dangerous.
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« Reply #93 on: March 14, 2020, 04:30:56 pm »
Why wouldn't it condense with the water? (I'm not a chemistry dude...).

Because you let anything coming off before the top of the distillation tower reaches 212 degrees escape to the atmosphere.
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« Reply #94 on: March 14, 2020, 06:51:26 pm »
It would if you didn't vent it.

If it boils off at a lower temperature, you run up to just short of boiling water, vent the vapors, and that way those lighter ends go to atmosphere (unless you have a place or reason to capture them).  Distilling alcohol, you capture (selectively) the alcohol vapors and leave the water behind. Run through that a couple of times you can get up to 90-95% (Everclear) alcohol captured.
Moonshiners do it with pretty basic equipment.

If you switched to a different condenser and continued the the distillation process, with a mite more heat, you could boil the kettle dry and condense distilled water, too, but that isn't the product that pays the bills in a 'shine operation.

Similarly, I have seen video where Indonesians were distilling diesel from crude oil, about a barrel at a time, by smelling the vapor, capturing it and condensing it, leaving the heavier fractions in the pot, so to speak, and letting the lighter ones vent to atmosphere before capture.  It isn't the most environmentally system, but they made a marketable (locally) product on a small scale. It is pretty common in Nigeria, as well, despite being environmentally unfriendly and downright dangerous.
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Got it. So you raise the temperature to just below the water boiling point and keep it there long enough to boil off the lower boiling point contaminants. All before starting the actual water distillation.

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« Reply #95 on: March 14, 2020, 07:54:41 pm »
Got it. So you raise the temperature to just below the water boiling point and keep it there long enough to boil off the lower boiling point contaminants. All before starting the actual water distillation.
Precisely!

You can do similar things with any distillation, what changes are target temperatures for the cooking, or for the condenser. Check out Fractional Distillation, this of crude oil.
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« Reply #96 on: March 15, 2020, 04:26:00 pm »
SmokinJoe...you mentioned you like distilled water  because it makes the best coffee.  Bottomline, distilled water has no taste.  When people first drink it alone, they often comment, oh yuck, this taste terrible.  Fact is, it has no taste.  It has nothing in it to give it taste.  So, with your coffee, you are getting the pure coffee taste.  Everything taste better with distilled water.

When I was young in Pennsylvania,  I can remember going to a spring in the mountains, and you could drink the water coming out of the side of a mountain, and it was cold and it was delicious tasting.  Very refreshing.  The taste was the minerals in the water.  That was in the 1950s. 

In 1980 or 81, Newsweek magazine dedicated an entire issue to water.  The cover had a parched earth map of the USA.  In that magazine, it indicated Ohio was the most polluted, with Pennsylvania right behind it.  It also indicated the entire east coast was terribly polluted, and that the aquafier level of water unsafe to consume.  Farm runoff was the primary reason, pesticides and herbicides largely polluting the aquafier level. 

As I understand it, the human body cannot assimilate and process inorganic minerals.  So, if one consumes inorganic minerals, they build up in the body just like they would a hot water heater.  Over time, they cause problems in the body, contribute to blocked arteries, kidney or gall stones, deposits in the joints, etc.

The woman I bought my first distiller from, she had a severe case of arthritis with deposits in the joints, her hands had huge nubs and were extremely painful.  She started drinking distilled water, and her hands returned to normal.  No more pain, no more meds needed either.  She lived to be 103.

Every time I see someone with bottled water(non distilled), the thought goes through my head that they are shortening their life.  The irony is that if you read the label on a lot of these bottled waters, they put the water through some purifying process, then they turn around and add back minerals for taste.  Ugggh.  I consider this stuff to be almost as bad as tap water.  Then there is the occasional story where the bottled water is discovered to have things in it like benzene, as in Perrier Water.

Loma Linda hospital in California years ago did a study on the 25 leading bottled water companies sold in California and found only one met the quality claimed on the label.  Back then, nearly 30 years ago, 70%+ of the households in California had point of service purification to some level within the home.  Unlike meat, there is no inspection of water producing plants to verify they are producing what they claim.  The best way to know what you are drinking is to control the process within your own home.  Distilled water is the purest form of drinking water.  Reverse Osmosis is the second, but you will find it expensive to replace the filters and the membrane through the years.  Plus, the first drop of RO water is the purest from the system, but the quality declines with each passing gallon, as impurities build up on the filter beds.  Unlike RO, distilled water remains constant in the quality.

To answer questions above, there is a valve for inert gases to escape the process on a distiller, and there is also a post filter to capture anything should it make it that far.  And another consideration, every distiller I bought through the years, I sold for more money than I originally paid for it.  They run forever.  I went from distiller 1 to distiller 2 only to get one with advanced features.  My first one was semi automatic.  One needed to manually set it to how much water you wanted to make, it automatically shutoff.  The second, was fully automatic, with a demand pump, and I had a second faucet at the sink and had my refrigerator hooked up to make distilled ice cubes and chilled water.

If you have ice cubes that are real white or mostly white versus clear, that is the minerals in the water doing that.  Distilled ice cubes are clear. 

I am writing my first book on water to tell my story and some of the case studies of people whose life I influenced in drinking distilled water.  And it is never too late to start drinking distilled water. 

I wish I had before and after photos of my uncle that had a severe case of congestive heart failure.  He was green/gray in color, and his cardiologist told him he was one step away from dropping dead at any time.  He started drinking distilled water in 1992, and he lived another 20 years.  The green/gray look went away after one year of drinking distilled water.
 How many people do you know with extreme congestive heart failure living beyond five years?  Everyone else I knew usually died in five years.

Without exception, everyone I convinced to drink distilled water benefited noticeably with their health and wellbeing.


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« Reply #97 on: March 16, 2020, 12:20:54 am »
@jafo2010 What make/model of distiller do you use? (We have been buying it by the jug, and I'd bet we could pay for the unit in less than a couple of years).
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« Reply #98 on: March 24, 2020, 02:14:37 am »
Joe, Just saw this.

I have used a product by the same company since 1979.  They are the leader in the distiller market.  All our embassies use their product, and all the staff at their homes as well.

If you want to check out their product go to    www.mypurewater.com

They also picked up another brand they are marketing which is cheaper, but it is not the same quality.

If you are interested, I can save you a decent amount of money. 

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« Reply #99 on: March 24, 2020, 12:30:48 pm »
It's not as much fun as you might think it is.
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