Help us complete Vanessa’s cancer treatment
Six weeks ago, on the 27th of February, exactly six months after we got married, exactly five months after we unbelievingly heard the doctors describe the brain tumor diagnosis ( with the ensuing battle of standard treatments for this cancer - surgery twice, heavy radiotherapy, and two months of chemotherapy), our oncologists and brain surgeons ( including a prominent brain cancer researcher ), told us that there was no way to stop the brain tumor in Vanessa’s head, and all we could ( and should! ) do was to go home and try to enjoy the remaining weeks she had to live.
It is impossible for me to describe how terrifying this was, especially thinking about our two boys of 2 and 4 years old, losing the most important person in their lives. And it is very difficult to impress on you how insanely brave my Vanessa is: On the very next day, February 28, non other than the-love-of-my-life‘s 40th birthday, Vanessa literally charged out and pleaded to other doctors to help us start the adjuvant alternative treatments that we believed, and now know, could help us beat braincancer. Before her 40th birthday was over, she had convinced two doctors to help us start up treatments.
She is my warrior, and would not, will not, give up on herself, her two boys, or me in this battle, even if our hospital healthcare practitioners did. So from February 28, we have started up metabolic pathway treatments based on many promising scientific studies, all focused on improving the effectiveness of cancer cell death during chemotherapy. The result now, six weeks later, is that we turned a 50% tumor growth increase every 6-8 weeks during the five months of radiation and chemotherapy, into a 15% REDUCTION of tumor during the last six weeks of metabolic treatments in addition to chemotherapy.
Ironically enough, our “Best Healthcare System in the world” actively discourages these treatments, while they are readily supported and available by healthcare institutions and health insurances in most other countries like Germany, the UK and the US. In Norway, even the best private healthcare insurances don’t cover promising adjuvant metabolic treatments. This was a shock to us.
During these six months, helped by my yet-to-be-usefull bachelor in molecular biology, I learned how these metabolic pathway treatments focus on changing different metabolic processes in our bodies so that the tumor is as best possible starved of its nutrients for its defective extreme growth. This in turn, together with traditional chemotherapy, which in Vanessas case is Telozolomide which targets the DNA and replication processes, can double or triple the rate of cancer cell death. The difference in result can therefore “magically” leaps from just marginally slowing down tumor growth, to actually reducing the tumor! Certain death turns to continued life! It all makes sense in theory, and now that we see it works, it has turned our darkest moments of fear, into our bright hope of miraculously BEATING BRAINCANCER!
But unfortunately, these alternative treatments are expensive, and neither our government health care services, our social welfare system, nor our expensive health insurances, cover our expenses. The different treatments cost us approximately 15 000 NOK ( 1 500 USD ) per month, not including transport, parking, extra daycare help needed, and other indirect costs which from October last year amounts to over 100 000 NOK (10 000 USD ). When we do our accounts to see how we can cover the impact our current battle has had these past six months, and calculate continued treatments for at least the remainder of the year, we see that we are struggling hard. That is why I am asking for help. A small gift from many of you who know how bright my Vanessa has and will shine, can make all the difference in ensuring that the finest person in the world, the strongest woman I know, the most passionate mother I have ever witnessed, and the truly most Devine soul mate I could have imagined ( I hit the Jackpot! ) gets the treatment we now know works, for as long as it takes to give her the family life she deserves, and which gives us, her three boys, the best mother and partner the universe can conjure.
Please help us, any donation is love we will feel and cherish for the rest of our lives.
And when all the worst is over, we will pass on as much as we can, to all those others that don’t get help with proper adjuvant treatments, and hope that one day, all healthcare services around the world recognize the importance of streamlined metabolic pathway treatments to help kill cancer!