Let's SHRINK Travis' Brain Cancer!
Short version...
We got married on Thanksgiving and are fighting melanoma that has spread to Travis' brain. After two full rounds of complete brain radiation, we are now trying Cannabis Oil, and supplements and an alkaline diet to shrink the tumors and buy ourselves as much time as possible as we begin our little miracle of a marriage.
I have excellent health insurance as a school teacher but, unfortunately, none of the 90 day regimen will be covered.
Our beloved friends and family have asked how they can help. So we have taken your advice and are using gofundme to offset the cost of treatment.
Even $5 or $10 could really make a difference if lots of you contributed. Please join our cause and FIGHT against this horrible disease and our HOPE to have more time togther!
This ancient plant is being rediscovered in new and exciting ways that could change the face of cancer for us all!
LONGER VERSION
Our Love Story: A Brief History
Travis and I went to the same college, Pacific Christian College in Fullerton, Ca. I thought he was very cute and my roommate and I had a secret crush. We remet on Facebook in 2010, and even though he didn't remember me (despite my producing a picture of us together!) we hit it off and started a conversation that has lasted to this day. :)
We dated for 3 1/2 years before planning to go our separate ways in October of 2013, mostly because of outside circumstances, but even though he was my "ex" boyfriend, we spoke, messaged or texted almost daily and even said, "I love you" now and then. It was in October of last year, as he prepared to move back to Oregon, that he had one of several heart-attacks on my couch.
He was hospitalized on October 8th after the largest of them, and had a stent put in surgically to help with the blockage. It was then that his doctor looked at the angry mole that had been on his back for sometime.
It was melanoma. Last month (November 2014), my now ex-boyfriend went back for his four month PET scan on the day before his 47th birthday, and found the cancer that had been removed, along with several lymph nodes and then radiated on his side, and that had been ALL CLEAR at 3 months, was now back and in his brain. He had at least eight tumors with three that were quite large.
Six days later he went by ambulance to the hospital as one of the tumors began to bleed and they gave him hours to live. I drove all night from California to Oregon to say good bye, if I could make it in time...AND HE SURVIVED.
He started to wake up and in three days time he was taken off palliative care, then off hospice and then sent home to start two rounds of full brain radiation, all shocking to the doctors and his family and me!
I seemed unable to leave his side and through small and huge miracles we were given at first moments, and then hours, where I was able to say all the things I had hoped to on my 10 hour drive in the middle of the night.
You can imagine our shock and joy when Dr. Cook, the hospice doctor, reversed decisions and GIFTED us with the possibility of weeks or even months more by sending him home to begin radiation!
Four days after coming home from the hospital he proposed to me and we got married on Thanksgiving!
Today, December 21st, 2014, he arrived in California, and we begin not only our married life together, but a 90 regimen of Cannabis Oil to try and buy us even more time in our unlikely love story.
I will continue to add posts of our journey, but THANK YOU for taking the time to read this and helping in any way you can!
With HOPE and LOVE and JOY,
Lisa and Travis
