Appointment with Dr.Advani

We are still waiting for the appointment maker to call us about his Appt. he needs with Dr. Advani.



Marcel is sad that his previous Lymphoma oncologist (Sandra Horning) is no longer here at Stanford. She was amazing! She had battled cancer once (not sure what type). She was the #2 Hodgkin’s doctor in the world. When marcel went to see her 2 years ago, she created a personalized chemo for Marcel, and it knocked the cancer out in 2 treatments (they were just planning the cancer to shrink to prepare for the BMT). We found out that she left to work for a pharmaceutical company  hopefully she is creating new chemo’s that will save many lives! She was all about the patient, Marcel loved this because he was used to the Dr.’s talking to his father when we lived in Lebanon….then when we arrived in the states, most of his Dr.’s would speak to me…I have no idea why??? But Dr. Horning would give me a small “Hi” and focus completely on Marcel…and if I interrupted, she gave me a look, and then turned her whole body toward Marcel. I know it doesn’t sound nice, basically since she was a patient once, she knew the ins and outs.






Waiting is the worst… it’s been driving my mind crazy. But in the craziness I’ve tried to be a little pro-active.


Has anyone ever watched Dr. OZ? I don’t watch prime time TV much because I’m always at work….but I usually catch Thursday episodes of Dr. OZ. The stuff he puts on his show always gets me thinking about healthier ways to live. Well on a recent episode he was talking about the “Alkaline Diet”. It’s not really a diet; it’s more like choosing the foods that are best for your body’s PH system. And he made a statement that makes me want to live this diet in our home. He said “if I had cancer, I would be on the alkaline diet” I don’t know much about it, but basically everything we eat is either an acid or an alkaline. He said that the reason no one ever gets heart cancer, is because of the PH system in the heart is Alkaline. Supposedly the best foods to eat are alkaline and ideally we should be eating 80% alkaline and 20% acid. I will research this all week…and see how it works. I think that I may even keep track of our menu here. When we start it.


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I just got a call from the appointment setter; his appointment is February 8th at 9:15am…..


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I just want to thank everyone for all of your prayers and kind wishes. It really means a lot to both Marcel and me. Monday I showed him both this blog and my personal blog…honestly, he was crying when he read the kinds words of those he doesn’t even know. It means so much!


Thank you all!