Howdy all! I’ve started a new website. It’s still really under construction, but will have more information on the treatments I’ve done that have kept me on the planet. Today I posted the directions for Black Salve. Yesterday was another post about the main ingredient in Black Salve, Sanguinaria Canadensis also known as Bloodroot.
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I’ll keep posting here too. I love you all!
Love, gratitude and blessings
~Susan
Ever wonder where certain ideas we have come from? I remember a teacher in 5th grade asking “why can’t you be like everyone else?” She told another class she was going to have me taken out of the gifted program if I didn’t perform in her class the way she thought I should. She was the first teacher I remember despising. Why was it the business of another class what I was or wasn’t doing?
Fast forward a few years…one of my best friends told me she and her dad had been talking about me. He was explaining to her that just because I laugh a lot and act happy, doesn’t mean I’m really happy. Nobody is really like that. He told her I must be acting happy all the time to cover up that I was really hurting and sad. I wasn’t sad until she told me that. That may have been the beginning of trying to figure out who I really was. Questioning myself.
Next thing I’m remembering, was when I was a junior in high school. I had been active in the youth group since 8th grade. We met at someone’s house every Sunday night after church. Our leader, I’m not remembering his name, was singing a song. He had his hands in the air over his head, had a physically hurt look on his face and had tears streaming from his eyes. The more he sang, the more dramatic he got. Every time he belted out “Jesus” his face writhed with pain. He was probably about 2 minutes into the song when I snorted and busted out laughing. I’m doing it again now!!! I remembered! His name was Steve. All I could think about was if Jesus made him hurt so bad and look this miserable, why would I want to be a part of it? I’ve since realized, it was his interpretation I didn’t want to be a part of. He let me laugh for another 15 seconds until he stopped singing, yelled at me and told me to go outside. I did. I wondered how much trouble I was going to get into when my parents found out what I had done. He looked so stupid to me. I was not going to follow his lead and do what he was doing. I waited outside for what seemed like forever. He came outside to talk to me. He said “You don’t see anyone else acting like that” I was thinking…they wanted to, they just were too concerned with what everyone else would think…I actually felt bad. Why wasn’t I like everyone else? I didn’t fit in at school, now I had goofed up and wasn’t going to fit in at church either. I was bummed out. I kept going, but did a better job of filtering myself. I got better at making sarcastic remarks with a straight face, so people thought I was an “airhead” instead of being disrespectful and laughing. I regularly asked myself why I was so different. I saw it as being a bad thing. I thought it was bad to not fit in. I thought it was bad to not be a leader or a follower and just be me. It seemed to be a repeating pattern in my life.
Jump ahead again…several times, my first husband said similar things… “you’re not normal”, “why can’t you just do things like everyone else does”, “you don’t fit in no matter where you go”…What a blessing! It wasn’t until then, that my rebelliousness kicked in. I finally decided…I don’t care! Maybe it’s not such a bad thing to not fit in. It was only because I saw it as “bad”, that I was hurt when someone said something about it. I realized no matter what it is, if I think it’s bad…and someone associates me with it, then I’m likely to get offended by it. If I see it as being good…then I don’t care that someone calls me…rebellious or selfish. I see it as a good thing that I don’t accept authority to the point of not thinking for myself. When I’m not feeling good and someone asks me how I’m doing, my usual response is “I’m always good!…and sometimes I’m a liar” Is being a liar a bad thing? Most people think it is. I prefer to say I’m good, than to talk about what’s hurting.
Tonight, I had a friend say “you’re one strange character” It was the best thing anyone said to me all day! I don’t want to be like everyone else. I probably won’t ever fit into a box. I no longer want to.
It is my belief, that people only get offended by the things they think about themselves that they see as being bad. If it’s a good thing, they feel good about it and if they don’t think it applies at all, it doesn’t matter. We have the ability to change the way we see things or change our behavior to be what makes us feel better about ourselves. The only opinion that matters about me is my own. I’m always…no, most of the time…open to criticism about myself. In fact, someone told me to make lifestyle changes to improve my health a couple days ago. My first thought was “what?” “me?” Within 10 seconds, I shifted to “hmmm, what can I change to make my life better”. It’s way past my bedtime…I’ll read this tomorrow and see if it makes sense.
Love, gratitude and blessings!
Susan
Since my diet is mostly raw, I decided to buy a dehydrator. Now I can make things other than my usual green juice…I use a Green Star juicer if I want really strong juice, or the Vitamix if I’m short on time or want the fiber. Without really thinking what 80 liters looks like, I ordered the commercial dehydrator. It was only $20 more than the 40L of another brand. Long story short, it’s the size of my other oven. Not exactly going to fit on the countertop. Maybe on top of the dog crate, but pretty sure the rescue pup doesn’t want the machine living on top of his forever home either. Last night, I stayed up reading and cutting and mixing…I actually bought the dehydrator because I saw this recipe and wanted them…bad!!!
If you’re not eating raw, the ingredients are a lot cheaper.
Raw Coconut Chocolate Macaroons
3 cups dried, raw unsweetened coconut flakes
1 1/2 cups raw cacao powder
1 cup maple syrup – I used raw agave (low glycemic)
1/3 cup raw coconut butter – I’ve seen it at the co-op, Central Market and Whole Foods
1 TBSP vanilla extract
1/2 tsp Himalayan sea salt
In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients and stir well to combine. You can also use a standing mixer with the paddle attachment.
Using a small ice cream scoop, your hands or a big TBSP, spoon rounds of the dough onto dehydrator screens. If you are using your hands, it helps to refrigerate the mix a bit prior to forming the macaroons. Dehydrate the 115*F for 12 to 24 hours, or until crisp on the outside and nice and chewy on the inside.
For Blonde Macaroons: Replace the cacao powder in the recipe above with an equal amount of fine almond flour (soak almonds in water for at least 6 hours to overnight. Drain and rinse well and dehydrate for 12 hours. Pulse the almonds in a food processor for a fine consistency, be careful about mixing it too much or you will make almond butter)
The chocolate macaroons will be done at the same time as the almonds, so I can snack a little while mixing the Blonde ones. I altered both recipes a little, by cutting back on the agave and adding coconut oil. Even though the agave is low glycemic, it’s still sugar. The coconut oil seems to be holding together so far and not dripping out of the macaroons. I can hardly wait!
Sidenote…the dehydrator is running in the downstairs bedroom at 115 degrees. Apparently the thermostat is being affected and it’s freezing upstairs. Maybe I’ll nap in the sauna!
Love, gratitude and blessings
Susan
Filed under: alternative treatments, bodybuilding, cancer, coaching, colon cleansing, health, Hyperbaric Chamber, Inspiration, nutrition, sport specific training
I especially like the tan!
Many people make decisions at the beginning of a year to make changes in their lives. These changes are meant to improve their lives in some way. They want to lose weight, get in better shape, quit things like smoking or abusing alcohol, improve their finances, relationships, living situations (mine is eliminate clutter)…The lists are endless. My big question is always “Why”? Why do you want – whatever it is you want? What are you willing to give up for it? Is your “why” big enough to “deprive” yourself of the other?
Why are you thinking you are depriving yourself of something if eliminating it will make your life better? If you keep doing it, aren’t you depriving yourself of a better life?
Change is hard for most people. If it’s something you want bad enough, it’s a lot easier. The more specific it is, the easier it is. I’ve been told many times I have an “all or nothing” attitude. When it’s something really important to me, I do. Regarding the cancer: 7 years ago, medical treatment offered me less than 1% of hope for surviving a year. I had to rely on alternative sources of information in order to help myself to get well. All the information in the world, won’t help if I don’t get off my butt and implement it. I was going to say I have had more discipline for getting rid of the cancer than I’ve ever had, but that’s not exactly true. When I set a goal to compete in a bodybuilding competition, I do everything I know to do to prepare for the competition. My diet used to be exactly what my trainer told me to do, now it is exactly what I’ve learned to do based on past experience with my body and what I’ve learned from other sources. The competition gives me a date I have to accomplish my goal by. I know I don’t get an extra week. Once my diet, workouts, cardio and sleep schedule start, I know that regardless of the judges decisions, I’ve done my best. If I skip cardio, or “just onecookie” and I don’t do well at the show, I know I have no one to blame but me. If I don’t make the goal to compete, to get up on stage wearing an outfit that’s 6 inches at its widest point, I have no reason to push myself to that extent. Don’t misunderstand, my diet is probably cleaner than that of most competitors “pre-contest diet”, but immaculate when I’m “pre-contest”. I know that every time I compete, my body looks better after the show than it did before I started the process. I know that my confidence is improved, every time I get off the stage. I think I’m talking myself into something here. The goal is only the beginning. The end result – stage pictures – keeps me focused. I know I have to stay focused on my own, because few of my friends are going to call and say “what time are you going to the gym? I’ll meet you for an hour on the stair climber”. My kid probably isn’t going to say “no, mom, lets have raw eggs or a salad in the blender instead of pizza”. Being around people who aren’t supportive of what I’m trying to accomplish could blow my efforts. If I didn’t have the discipline I do, because my “why” is so important, my competition goal would be a lot more difficult.
Yes, my competing goal takes up a lot of time, which is why I haven’t made that decision yet. At this point, I have 20 minutes on the Body Vibe, an hour in hyperbaric chamber, an hour for Gerson coffee, oil pulling, dry brushing, hot/cold shower, food prep and getting myself ready all before work. After work, I fit in my workout, another hot/cold shower and 30-60 minutes in the sauna. I feel great and have no evidence of cancer, but since it’s only been a short time since the last tumor, still need to do it all.
I would love to get rid of the clutter in my house! I don’t know where to start. Maybe there’s someone out there wanting to lose weight. You can help me de-clutter and I’ll call you and say “meet me at the gym for an hour on the step mill”!
Make your why big enough and get up and make it happen!
Love, gratitude and blessings to you all
Susan Wonder Stone
Aside from the knowledge I’ve gained, if I knew 10 years ago what I know now, I would never have had the 1st melanoma biopsied! NEVER!!
Why? Melanoma, like other tumors, spreads when it is cut. When I brought that up to the nurse at my Dermatologist’s office, she said “It shouldn’t spread that much before we do the 2nd surgery”. That much? What could that possibly mean? How could anyone know how much it will spread after cutting into it? After breaking an egg yolk, how easy is it to keep it contained? What’s going to happen to your meringue if you get egg yolk in it? If the tumor has started growing roots, how long are they? Which direction do they go? What happens if the root gets cut? It spreads.
I believe cutting into the first melanoma is the reason it spread all over my skin and to other organs. I didn’t know then what I know now. If I had done nothing, it may have been worse. I do believe everything happens for a reason. I believe everything happens when it’s supposed to. I believe God doesn’t give us more than we can handle – which I’ve been told I took out of context – but if I believe it, I can overcome anything – right?
The cancer industry tells us there’s no cure. Maybe there isn’t. I’ve decided to look at it like diabetes. It’s something I live with. It’s something I manage. The things I do, the medical community calls old wives tales or quackery. The only place on line I’ve found anything about one of my doctors is quackery.com. He has more success stories than any oncologist I’ve known of. Barbara Bush’s thank you letter for her alternative cancer treatment was framed beside her picture with the doctor at the hospital I go to. Good luck finding information that she went to Mexico for cancer treatment. Our medical community would have us believe if we don’t do what they recommend, we will die from the cancer. They know what they do is only an attempt to buy time. They know the cancer will come back. They will do what they can when it comes back, if they find it in time.
The statistics for recurrent melanoma showed that 99.6% of patients are dead within a year, using the treatments “they” have decided will give you the best chance of survival. REALLY? Anyone else find this laugh out loud funny? It blows my mind to see people listening to that advice and following through with a treatment protocol with those odds! I decided to take a risk!
Side trip…my side yard always had a problem growing grass. The moss would get so thick I could hardly mow it. It was green from the street, but there was hardly any grass. Several years ago, my neighbor dug out the whole side yard. He brought in top soil, mixed in stuff to give it the right pH and then re-seeded it. Awesome neighbor, I know! Gary is my yard angel, sent directly from God! The grass came up. It filled in and was looking pretty good by the end of the summer. By the following spring when it was time to mow again, the moss had already taken over. 2/3 moss, 1/3 grass. What had happened? The giant pine tree at the corner of the house. I didn’t know the pine tree made the ground acidic. Moss loves the acidic pH. It went wild, once again, taking over the grass. Aside from making the soil acidic, the tree was supposedly blocking the peek a boo view of the Olympic Mountains and the Sound from the neighbor behind me. 2 years ago I had the tree cut down. Last year, Gary dug it out and reseeded again. Guess what? No moss. Given the pH it desired, the moss flourished. By removing the pine tree, the pH changed and was better for the growth of the grass.
My ex said I suck at analogies, but this makes sense to me. What if the things I’m thinking, eating, drinking, doing…are creating a perfect environment for the cancer to grow like the pine tree did for the moss? If I change the environment inside my body to be favorable for my healthy cells and my immune system, isn’t that going to give my body a better chance to take care of itself? We know cancer thrives on sugar – the medical community has known this since they discovered the PET scan. When given radioactive sugar, the increased metabolic activity of the cancer cells shows up on the scan, showing them where all the cancer is in the body. I know what causes my blood sugar to go up, so I don’t eat or drink it. If something is questionable, I check my blood sugar after I eat it. If it’s too high, whatever it was is no longer going in my mouth. It’s simple. I practice thoughts of gratitude, loving myself, saying it like it is – no more getting upset and holding it in, meditating, stretching and working out, feeding my body what it needs, pampering myself, luxurious sleep on my Nikken sleep system, lots of laughing and things that make me happy…still do the other “treatments” too. More about those later.
I don’t regret any of the decisions I made in the past. The mistakes taught me way more than the easy stuff did. The first biopsy gave me the original diagnosis. It was that diagnosis that got me on the greatest self discovery path I could have ever imagined. Knowing what I do now, I would never have done the first biopsy. Obviously things would be different. Not worse, not better, just different. Someday I’ll explain why I’ll NEVER have another mammogram…and I can tell you why I’ll NEVER have a colonoscopy. I better go to bed before I start talking about prostates.
Love, gratitude and blessings! ~Susan
Funny how many cool people get cancer
. Susan Stone – me, and Dee Cernile at Alternative cancer hospital – Natural Therapies and Spa in Tijuana, shortly before the 6.9 earthquake. And notice we both have hair…long hair. Cancer treatment doesn’t have to kill you! Let me know when you want information. Love you all!
Filed under: alternative treatments, cancer, Gratitude, health, Inspiration
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This is a short video Amanda from All About Hope and I put together. We still need more money. I leave tomorrow to go to the hospital. She’s continuing to raise money while I’m gone. I will be available via email if anyone has any questions. Thanks tons!!
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Love, gratitude and blessings!
Susan
I am courageous. I will not give up. Step by step my courage grows deeper and stronger. I embrace the new and unknown. My courage makes me brave. I explore what is possible without hesitation. The wisdom of others inspires me daily. I have the courage to let go of who I am for who I can become. Ever onward! ~ COURAGE ~ My strength and resolve run deep. I boldly ask for what I want. I surround myself with courageous and passionate people. I follow my heart. I give myself permission to be courageous. I act in spite of my fears. I choose to live filled with courage. I look ahead and go for it. I am no longer afraid. I choose to be powerful!
I’m packing for my trip to the hospital for more cancer treatment. I had some friends come over to fold and put away clean clothes mountain. They found things I had forgotten about. My courage blanket needs to go with me. It was given to me a few years ago. When I started to read it, I cried. Not just a few tears, but really cried. I didn’t understand at the time. I thought I was crying because I needed courage. Now I realize I cried because everything I read on the blanket was who I already was. So often we see ourselves weaker than we really are. We have so much inside we’ve never acknowledged.
Amanda and her posse with All About Hope, has done so much to get me to the hospital and reduce the stress I’ve had on me. It’s been really hard to let go of the details and allow someone else to do it. For so long, I’ve had to do most everything myself. Sometimes we have to allow others to help us. It’s been a challenge, but SO, appreciated!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!
Love, gratitude and blessings,
Susan
Filed under: alternative treatments, cancer, health, Hyperbaric Chamber, Hyperthermia, immune system, Inspiration, internal cleansing, nutrition
Susan, with a young son to care for, refused to believe this was the end for her. Her fight was only beginning, and what a battle she has been fighting! Her mother picked up and helped her financially giving her some relief of house payments and daily living expenses. Susan sought other alternatives to help kick her battle with cancer. Through nutrition, oxygen and heat therapies, along with detoxing and other alternative means she has been able to clear her liver and join the line of miracle people.
Today’s economy, stress and emotions have made new areas appear, leading her to needing more extensive treatment. We are speaking with Dr. _Quintana, who is willing to help Susan with her fight to live by providing her treatment. Susan’s “Bucket List Wish” is to live as long as she can. So we are helping her with this request to live.
Please help Susan and her son Cameron “Celebrate Life” by fighting for life.
Contributions sent to:
All About HOPE
3237 110th Ave SE
Bellevue, WA 98004
www.AllAboutHOPE.net
Memo To: Susan Wonder Woman Bucket List Wish
“Terminal cancer” or any other “terminal” illness only means your doctor’s knowledge and ability to help has been terminated. If you still want to be here, find another way.
If you find someone in a hole, tie a rope around a tree and throw the rope down to them. Those who really want to get out will grab the rope and climb out of the hole. If you’re in the hole, climb out while you still have the strength to do so. There will come a time where there just isn’t anything left.
Jim Rohn said…When the end comes for you, let it find you conquering a new mountain, not sliding down an old one.
Les Brown talked about someone who said…We should be ashamed to die until we have made some major contribution to human kind.
What is your major contribution? What will your next one be?
I have so much more to accomplish before I’m done circling the sun! Make this year your best year yet! Do great things!
Love, gratitude and blessings
Susan
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