Been a few months since I posted here. Nothing bugs me like folks who post a story about someone starting the Simpson Oil and then never giving an update as to progress or failure. Anyway, thanks WKRMN on your fathers update, saying a prayer for him. Let's see if I can keep this short & sweet, a Reader's Digest condensed version if you will.
August 2012 I get the news I've got pancreatic cancer.
September 2012 Got my guts removed with a Whipple Procedure which supposedly increased my 3-year survival rate from 6% to 20%.
December 2012-February 2013 Chemo & radiation. They left the chemo port in my chest, said they'd need it when they came back with more chemo this summer.
March 2013 rolls around and a guy I know ask me if I'm familiar with Simpson Oil. Check it out on the computer when I get home and figure I've got nothing to lose. This guy has a license in Michigan to grow pot legally and turns me on to a 10ml syringe full of this Simpson Oil. Looks, smells and taste like the bottom of an ashtray. Thick & sticky. Start taking it the beginning of May, eat about a ML (or gram) a day. The CT scan I had in April showed a few things still going on down there. I take the Simpson Oil every day while trying to educate myself on it.
July 2013 rolls around and we do another scan, somebody messed something up (or did they?) because the Doc (oncologist) was having a hard time trying to understand what they had written in the report. Doc gets pissed and decides we'll just do another scan in 2 months.
August 2013 I bought a rice cooker and coffee cup warmer (thanks for the recommendations, Growgoddess) and made my own using 99% ISO from Amazon, turned out fine.
Early October 2013 brings around another scan. Went to see the Doc last week for results (5 1/2 month mark for the Oil) and he's happy as hell. If you knew the Doc you'd know he ain't a happy kind of guy. He tells me it appears things are shrinking and for the first time in 15 months mentions the word remission. Says all my numbers are great. I haven't told him yet about the medical marijuana I've been doing, haven't decided if I ever will.
Is pot curing me? I don't know. It's still too early to tell and no one could have an intelligent answer based on one scan. Maybe it's the pot, maybe it's the holy water my sister buys me from Lourdes, maybe it's all the vitamins & supplements I've been taking, maybe it's the prayers. Hell, maybe it's all of them combined. All I know is that I'm getting better while fighting a disease that took my grandmother and now wants me. For the first time since this ordeal started I feel like there may be hope. A chance hit on a Googled website brought me to Cannibis.com and here, Growgoddess's post. The things I have learned may save my life, I surely hope so, and for that I thank all of you who have posted here.
So, that's where we stand today. Now that I've talked your ear off, it's time for another question. How much longer should I continue this regimen until I cut back to a maintenance dose? The main reason I'm asking is I've been off work since August 2012 and found out after 18 months it's in the contract that we lose our seniority. Don't want to lose that as I've been there 31 years. Not sure if it would lead to being dismissed (and losing my insurance) as no one has ever been out that long. Anyway, I figured I'd just keep doing the Oil until the end of December (another 2 months) then dry out for a month so I could take a return to work physical and hopefully pass a piss test. This would get me back before my end-of-February deadline. Ideally I'd like to stay on it full time until the next scan but I guess 2 months is better than nothing. Any input from Growgoddess and the rest of you would be appreciated. Thanks again for all you've done.
Ken