Great to hear from you Mart and hope you will be around for a long time yet…
Prove them wrong my friend…
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Mart it’s great to hear from you and that you are back home in familiar surroundings with Mrs Mart by your side. Your enduring love for each other gives us all faith in the power of good in humanity.
Docs often get in wrong when they try to predict how long someone will live after a terminal cancer diagnosis, so let’s hope you are around and able to pop in every now and again for a good while to come. The human spirit can keep us alive while medics scratch their heads in awe.
p.s. it was nice to see Mrs Mart posting on here too.
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Poor Mr mart. Hang in there while you can. Eventually it’s all we can do.
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It’s lovely to hear from you Mart and pleased that you are back home - you gave us a bit of a fright, eek!
If the doctors have said there’s nothing they can do, maybe it could now be worth looking into things you can do yourself? I think I have suggested dietary intervention a few times on the forum but there was a study last year about the connection of sugar to cancer - cancer cells love sugar:
Cancer cells churn through sugar molecules at an accelerated rate in order to release the energy they need to grow and divide in a dangerous, erratic way. This ‘addiction’ to glucose is such a defining feature of cancer cells that cancer can be detected through imaging techniques that spot the sugar feeding-frenzy in diseased parts of the body.
The problem with people cutting out sugar is they don’t get enough calories, however ask anyone who has started a carnivore or strict paleo diet and almost all will say they failed on their first attempt because they too didn’t get enough calories… and it’s not because of the diet, but because they just didn’t have the experience to do it properly, i.e, they missed a vital part: fat. Good fats (from animal sources: butter, ghee, duck fat, beef dripping etc) is very filling and high in calories. Once your body adapts to ketosis, it starts using fat for fuel (and so theoretically, and some say starts starving cancer cells). Fasting has also been known to have a positive effect but you may be too weak for that.
This is 5 years old but may be of interest Mart:
I’ve not watched it all myself but his intro is worth a watch (he had a stroke, then cancer…)
I wish you a speedy recovery Mart - as @OldGreyFox said, you can prove them wrong! 
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Hi Mart
We all die, the inevitability of life, no one, at least not on this Forum, is going to be Immortal.
Your life has not been wasted, you are an absolute example to others.
In particular me, I have learnt so much from you, how to be positive and how to think of others when the inevitable happens.
You are an absolute superstar and I am very lucky to have known both you and Mrs Mart. XXX
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I didn’t know that Azz about Cancer and Sugar and yet I thought I was uptodate with my Diabetes.
Thanks for the information. It would be a good idea Mart and listenbtobAzz.
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It is something that has been known in functional medicine for a long time Susie, but finally ‘conventional medicine/science’ caught up last year with that study. Hopefully more people will start considering it if they ever get diagnosed with cancer (or even things like heart disease - I’m looking at you @OldGreyFox and @swimfeeders and @Besoeker and everyone else poorly actually!) Sugar really is the devil when it comes to health and it is hidden in all sorts of things, not just added processed sugar, but in high glycemic foods that our ancestors didn’t eat, such as grains, pulses and beans, rice etc.
A Paleo diet is a good introduction:
- Meat
- fish
- veg
- nuts
- seeds
- spices
- a bit of fruit.
A carnivore (or carnivore and fruit) diet (so even less sugar):
- Any part of the animal (and organ meats are recommend as well - and don’t just eat muscle, you need the fat too)
- Fruit (some vegetables are actually fruits too, eg squashes, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, courgettes, avocados, olives, okra, green beans, and peas - but most people stick to traditional fruits, apples, blueberries etc and where the majority of the meal is an animal product and it’s organs and its fat etc).
It’s also important to eradicate toxins from your life too - so use fluoride free toothpaste, use fragrance free soaps and natural shampoos etc.
I am a firm believer in diet being key to health. If any of you try any of the above let us know!
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We do enjoy good food like those you suggest, Azz. But for me I have problem with the cancer machine at the moment. It has been six weeks since it has lasted - thankfully it is just one week remaining. Then we’ll see…
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Good luck Mac, and please let us know how you get on if you do decide to give any of the above a go 
Yes Azz, as a Type I Diabetic for 42 years I eat sensible anyway, in fact exactly what is on the Paleo diet, but sometimes my sugar levels go up very high if I eat fresh fruit, especially bananas.
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Well, we have enjoyed different kinds of foods, maybe more variety than than others have. You have tried Alligator ?
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Time is precious now, for you and Mrs Mart together. Enjoy it the best you can Mart. My mum was terminal, the same … and she had another 8 months with her family. Precious time for us. Enjoy each other and love to be with the ones you love.
X
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That’s good Susie
And you’re right, bananas can be quite high in sugar content, I think maybe because they are sprayed and dipped and not really like ‘natural’ bananas anymore : /
I’ve not Mac… but eating a variety of foods is really good. Not like our modern diets now which are not very varied at all…
To be honest if you have a terminal diagnosis you should eat whatever you have an appetite for and enjoy yourself as much as you can.
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So happy you have caught us up on your illness, but sad news that you aren’t able to do much. Know we are all thinking of you, and wishing we could help in some way.
Great big hugs to you and Mrs. Mart.
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I carry on. The most painful part of hospital last week was the necessity for a Nephrostomy tube change. Normally done while laying on my front but I couldn’t do that this time. I could only lay on my side, making it really painful to get that way and very difficult for the medical team doing the job. My back pain being the problem. The cancer has set in on the pelvic bone so I’m told. Probably the reason why.
I actually wasn’t too bad on the day of discharge. The blockage in my intestine had been solved by way of much liquid laxative but is still being a problem. A liquid diet was fed to me at the hospital. I’m trying to keep that up to a degree now I’m home by having food liquidised. Still a painful business though. I have a good appetite but shouldn’t keep shovelling food in while the digestive system isn’t working well.
Getting up in the morning is very groan-worthy, although just laying in bed is fairly comfortable. It’s when I come to sit up that the pain starts and it takes a while to straighten up. I don’t know why that has set in so badly. I was OK enough in the hospital to walk around the ward a bit. It may have been the trip home when the damage occurred. Getting dressed and the journey in the car maybe. Then getting bedded down at home. Our son helped me with getting shoes and sock on and off so I didn’t especially need to bend around all that much. Anyway, it has become my severest problem at present whatever the reason.
I have taken 3ml of Oxycodol to get comfortable enough to get to the computer. Wrapped up in blankets like a real old man …but it’s just so boring keeping on laying down and I know I need to keep moving as much as I can. Our daughter will be arriving from Spain come mid-week. She will be staying on an open ticket and be a big help in relieving the burden I’m placing on Mrs mart. Thanks for putting up with my ramblings. 
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ref the back pain at home, perhaps they need to get you a hospital bed with a hoist, as could simply be that your mattress may be too soft or the bed too low with insuficient support.
Hope your good friends are still making you the delicious soup Mart. It’s good that you have an appetite.
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Not sure if it’d help you Mart but an enema is usually consider a very safe alternative to a laxative - pharmaceutical laxatives come with all sorts of potential and serious side effects. Enemas go back to the ancient Egyptians… apparently Cleopatra was a fan of them 
I hope you feel better soon Mart
I did have an enema. It all helps. I’ve managed to get upright this morning and ‘been’ twice. Still painful but the returns were worth it.
I think the time has come to stop worrying about what’s good or bad for me. It could all be a little late for that. Just and try and concentrate on any pain relief I can get. That was the opinion of the Phyllis Tuckwell nurse.
Phyllis Tuckwell are discussing putting together a precautionary emergency pack of drugs to keep in hand because the bad times often happen at awkward times like the weekends when no immediate help is at hand. They can come out and administer the drugs according to instructions but not prescribe them.
I’m going to try and stay up for some time and settle into the back pain.
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@mart Pain management has to be your priority now Mart … sounds a good idea to get an emergency pack together.
Getting up and about a bit each day is good too. Doesn’t matter if you don’t go far … How’s your appetite?
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