Guest Post Courtesy of the Xtend-Life Blog
Last Monday a very dear friend of mine for more than 40 years died of a brain tumor. He was a special person and a real life example of how a life should be lived. He was also a successful self made businessman who achieved what he did with total honesty and caring for everyone he came into contact with. His staff loved him, and his wife of 40 years adored him as did his family…and with good reason. His life was full, but balanced. I’m still learning how to achieve the sort of balance that Russell achieved. Russell was diagnosed with a highly aggressive brain tumor almost two years ago. He was 3 days younger than me and although he was very fit and active (still running half marathons at 61 years) he had never been a believer in natural or alternative medicine. Within 3 days of the initial diagnosis he was operated on, followed by chemo and radiation. I floated the idea past him that he only agree to the radiation and consider alternatives to the chemo…but, as expected he followed the oncologist’s advice and had the full treatment. He felt he should do the course of this new chemo treatment and then after that he would work on building up his immune system to offset the effects of the chemo. Fortunately the type of chemo had relatively few side effects so he was able to still go regularly to his holiday home in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand and indulge in his passion of fishing. The chemo treatment was almost continuous and up until the beginning of this year he seemed to be doing quite well. I went fishing with him earlier this year. Not long after he went for a checkup and found that the tumor had grown back and was as big as it was previously. They immediately operated again and put him on another course of chemo and radiation. The operation was considered a success. Six weeks later he went back for another check up, and then the ‘bombshell’. It had grown back to even larger than before. The Doctors gave him 2 months to live and said there was nothing more they could do for him.
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