Lori's Cancer Treatment

Firstly, I want to thank you all for you generous support. I’ve had so many messages, cards and prayers. It’s truly humbling. But it’s time to give you an update on this journey.

Being told 2 days before Christmas that not only had the cancer returned, but that there are tumors all over my abdomen, and that it’s very aggressive is not the Christmas present I was hoping for. You can imagine the shock.

Without boring you with the details I went from one oncologist telling me I had another telling me I had 3 years to a week later another telling me I had 1 year-18 months at best. Then another week later I was hospitalized with a bowel obstruction. This is because of a tumor that is pressing against my bowel pinching it almost closed. They told me that I was starving to death and had maybe 3 weeks left to live!!! All the Doctors kept telling me that the situation was urgent, but no one was moving with any urgency at all. Even my insurance BCBSTX was denying tests and treatments left and right. It was very discouraging and very frustrating. Because of how many tumors there where they were it was also inoperable.

After being told that the cancer was back and very aggressive it took me a few days to process the information and I came to this conclusion. I had 2 choices. I can believe what the doctors were telling me and live in fear, or I could believe what God was telling me. The fact is I do have cancer but the truth is Jesus is the great physician.

Psalm 30:2 - “O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me”

Psalm 103:1-3 – “Bless the Lord O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul and forget not all His benefits. Who forgives all your (my) iniquities. Who heals all your (my) diseases”

I Peter 2:24 – “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: By Whose stripes ye (I) were healed.”

I have decided not to let the enemy get me to doubt God’s word like he did to Eve (See Gen 2:15-17 and Gen 3:1-7) I have chosen to claim and believe that God told the truth and I have faith in his word to move this mountain in my life.

As we prayed and sought Gods guidance, he led me to a place called Oasis of Hope in Tijuana Mexico. (Thank you Jean Loper ) Check it out: oasisofhope.com. I encourage you to watch the 700-club featured video on there.

I sent my records and within 48 hours we had a treatment plan and a date to arrive. On Thursday, Jan 26th we arrived at Oasis of Hope. I can’t find the words to tell you how wonderful this place is. Your financial support has helped make it happen.

They have been around for 60 years, and their success rate is over the top better than anyplace in the USA. The standard of care in the USA is to treat the tumor. In doing so the rest of the body and immune system get depleted. This place treats the whole body, Soul and Spirit. When I was told by my oncologist the chemo they were going to put me on and all the side effects it did not sit well with my mind and heart. I would not be able to handle, eat or drink anything colder than room temperature for the rest of my life or I would have severe neuropathy. I would get mouth sores and nausea, fatigue, as well as potential abdominal bleeding. And those are just a few of the main symptoms. Although, I would get to keep my hair! HAHA

Like I said I don’t know how to convey the amazing place this is. Everyone here has their role and are committed to doing everything they can to see us get healed.

Here is amazing thing to share. When we sat down with our doctors here and looked over the CT scan they all have said the same thing. “There is nothing immediately life threatening about my tumors!” What a relief this was to hear. It’s not affecting any of my vital organs.

Every day is praise and worship in the treatment room. After that there is an information meeting on a topic related to our care. On Monday we meet the team, Tuesday we learn about how vital nutrition is to our success, We’d we learn about this alternative car treatment, Thursday we have an emotional healing session and on Friday’s we learn about our home care therapy and follow-up. The treatment involves 9 days of IV Vitamin C, K and B17. Eight ozone treatments and two Hypertherapy treatments (they even throw in 3 massages!) This therapy is to attack the tumors and weaken them so the real attack can happen. This week I have begun my LAK (Lymphocyte Activated killer cells treatment) and my Dendritic Cell vaccines (2). The way it was explained to me is the LAK are the “soldiers” and the Dendritic Cell vaccine are the generals that tell the soldiers where to go. You see, cancer is invisible to our immune system. That is why it can go undetected for so long. They have secret cloak that needs to be removed in order for our immune system to fight it. Everything they do here is to get our immune system stronger and able to recognize and identify the cancer and kill it.

Because it is turning on my immune system there is a lot of discomfort. It puts my body into an inflammatory state which does cause a lot of discomfort and pain. But it’s a good pain because it means the tumors are under attack. I’m thankful that the pain can be managed with meds. I am still on a limited soft food diet because of the tumor pushing against my bowels, but that should improve as the tumors shrink.

We have about 5 more days here and then we go home and continue our at home treatment for 3 months. At that point we will come back for 10 days and bring scans and do additional treatment. The Doctor yesterday said that it’s not unusual for there to be complete success after the 3 months. That’s what I’m claiming!!!

Again, thank you all for your support. I know you can’ tell from the “Give, Send, Go” page but we have met out goal and actually exceeded it. We have enough to complete this whole treatment and come back in 3 months for 10 days. Thank you from the depth of my heart for your support. Words fall short of the appreciation I have for each one of you.

- Lori Boyter

My mom comes home next week. Her journey to healing is far from over. But what I can say is that before she left for Mexico we were given solutions with no hope. It was like watching someone you love bleeding out and instead of putting a tourniquet on it or taking her into surgery to stop the bleeding you watch a doctor after doctor give her a Band-Aid and say..."sorry this is going to kill you but the bandage will cover it for a little while." Oasis of hope as been just that... It offered her and our family a solution WITH hope. Which in my opinion was the only actual offered solution here. My mom has bad days and she has good days, her pain is not gone she struggles with it daily. BUT there is hope. 

Darkness is the absence of light. When you're in a completely dark cave and shine a light it is still impossible to see anything around you. This is because light reflects. The more light you bring into the darkness the more reflection and the more light reflecting the brighter the room. This is why God calls us to community and fellowship. I want to thank you all for being a light in the darkness and helping her get time back. I want to thank you all for giving my brother the time to come home from deployment. I want to thank you all for giving my son, Noah , more time with his nana and my brother and I more time with our mom. I will be honest, there were times thought this all where my hope was gone. I think everyone in our family including my mom has felt that to some degree during these last couple of months. But not anymore, and that's thanks to you all and God. 

Anyways, I will continue to update throughout this journey.

We ask that you continue to pray for healing. 

Thank you ,

Michelle Boyter-Harville