Petra's Healing Journey

https://www.gofundme.com/save-petras-boobs

This is the first of my blog posts that has been a bit difficult to write.

On a really positive note, my lump is definitely getting smaller 🥳

Words cannot express how amazing this feels 🩷

This was always gonna be a gamble, probably the biggest gamble of my life, but I can safely say it’s working and I’m absolutely over the moon! 🤩

Unfortunately I’m running low on supplements and ivermectin and I need to place an order, but my fundraiser has slowed to a halt and I’ve a while to wait until payday.

It’s expensive being your own doctor, it takes time and research and good quality supplements and treatments don’t come cheap, likewise the high protein diet.

Being vegetarian is way cheaper than keto! My butcher is James Anderson on Great Junction Street, he is way cheaper than the likes of Crombies, and all his beef comes from a farm in the Borders and is lifelong grass fed, and the people in there are really lovely, it’s even dog friendly, my dogs love it there, partly for the smell but mostly for the titbits of ham they get. But it’s still expensive eating a high meat diet.

I get my veggies from East Coast Organic Farm. You can pick and mix what you want in your box and delivery is free. They do meat and eggs as well, but they’re a bit pricier than I can get elsewhere. I actually get my eggs from a coffee shop on Ferry Road called Dot, they sell eggs from a local farm for £2.10 a half dozen.

So I decided I should ask if anyone who hasn’t donated to my fundraiser has a few quid spare to donate, so hopefully I can order more supplements and ivermectin this week.

One of my dog walking friends has set up a standing order for £25 a month to put towards my supplies, which is so generous, and I’m so grateful, but the ivermectin costs £100, and the supplements even more. The good news is that, (apart from my tumour definitely getting smaller), I’ve got enough fenbendazole and methylene blue to last for a long time and my red light therapy device has a lifetime guarantee.

It doesn’t feel good asking for money when the cost of living has gone up so much and people are struggling, and if you are one of those people then obviously I don’t want anything from you. I’d much rather not write this message at all but if I wait till I get paid I will have run out of some of the things that I need to keep my treatment going.

I have an appointment on Wednesday with a third consultant for the second opinion (or third opinion, depending how you look at it), a Mr Elder. I’m hoping he won’t refuse to examine me in a position where he can feel the lump properly, as my original consultant Mrs Webber did, and that he isn’t angry and tell me a blatant lie, like the second consultant, Miss Fernandez! Fingers crossed he will be a nice man who will examine me properly and stick to the facts.

After doing more research into MRI’s, and discovering that the dye (gadolinium), that they pump through your veins, is quite toxic and can cause irreparable damage, I’m going to tell them on Wednesday that I’ve decided against the MRI and will have an ultrasound instead.

I think if I was unsure about whether or not the treatments were working I would feel the scans were really important, but as I can feel the lump is getting smaller, my intention is to keep doing what I’m doing, because it’s definitely working! 👊

I wouldn’t have been able to do this without your support, so thank you from the bottom of my heart 🩷