<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182</id><updated>2012-02-16T04:25:34.612-08:00</updated><category term='u'/><title type='text'>Vivo-Alive</title><subtitle type='html'>Welcome to my blog. I am a father of 2, married 11 years, life lover, cancer fighter.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>64</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-7419394807399316525</id><published>2012-01-29T21:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T22:04:47.875-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It's a Brand New Day</title><content type='html'>Today has been 4 weeks since Fede's passing. We are missing him more and more each day. We have reminders of him everywhere from his garden,plants, and flowers that he loved to his many instruments laying around the house. Lucia said to me today "thank you mom for holding our family together" and "mom, we will get through this." And we will.I see so much of Fede in our children. I will honor him in raising them how we always wanted to together. There have been some days when I haven't wanted to get up in the morning to get the day started but I just had to remember Fede and all that he did and I have gotten up everyday thanking God for a new day and for having the chance to  raise our children doing the job for both of us. Fede's memorial service was one week ago and it was a beautiful celebration of Fede's life. Many people were there to honor him. It was joyful, emotional and authenic to who Fede was. He inspires me everyday and I have heard from many people since his passing that they are also inspired to live better, more thankful of life. We have been overwhelmed by love and support during this time. Here is a video celebrating Fede that was played at his service. &lt;br /&gt;Much love, Marci&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;                                   http://vimeo.com/35445474  (copy link to browser)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-7419394807399316525?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/7419394807399316525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=7419394807399316525' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7419394807399316525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7419394807399316525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-brand-new-day.html' title='It&apos;s a Brand New Day'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-8692580516859739313</id><published>2012-01-01T19:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T19:36:45.734-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fede has been set free      1.21.1970- 1.1.2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R9mDatcEMrY/TwElJF_cNmI/AAAAAAAAD6M/fjPb2eaTYM4/s1600/fede.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 227px; height: 302px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R9mDatcEMrY/TwElJF_cNmI/AAAAAAAAD6M/fjPb2eaTYM4/s320/fede.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692872242130335330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My beautiful husband and father of Lucia and Mateo won his battle with cancer today and is in God's loving arms. He went peacefully after a 5 year battle. Fede fought for his life to raise Mateo and Lucia and he did it. Our children truly know and love their father and that was Fede's desire. He was surrounded by his family and loved ones the days leading to his death. His mother and I were with him for his last breath on this earth and we gave thanks that he was no longer suffering. My heart is thankful for each and everyone of you who have read this blog, supported Fede and I and gave us encouragement and hope. He was a light in our life and filled our home with so much love, joy and happiness. When his doctors told him he had less than a year to live with this cancer, he didn't accept that and his life was a testament to his strength and endurance over these last years. He was such a beautiful person and we will miss him terribly. &lt;br /&gt;Love to you all, Marci&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-8692580516859739313?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/8692580516859739313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=8692580516859739313' title='45 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/8692580516859739313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/8692580516859739313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2012/01/fede-has-been-set-free-12170-112012.html' title='Fede has been set free      1.21.1970- 1.1.2012'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R9mDatcEMrY/TwElJF_cNmI/AAAAAAAAD6M/fjPb2eaTYM4/s72-c/fede.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>45</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-6267078745904607470</id><published>2011-12-28T12:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T12:12:48.134-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Transitioning</title><content type='html'>Fede has transitioned to comfort care. He is comfortable and not in pain.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-6267078745904607470?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/6267078745904607470/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=6267078745904607470' title='25 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6267078745904607470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6267078745904607470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/12/transitioning.html' title='Transitioning'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-6377638294546283147</id><published>2011-12-17T13:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T10:35:28.466-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Again in the hospital</title><content type='html'>Fede was admimitted again to the hospital on Thursday evening. He was at his doctors office for a quick check and he started getting episodes of vomiting, nausea and pain in his liver. His doctor decided to admit him right away. He was scheduled to have a procedure the next day anyways so his doctor wanted him to be monitored. When he got to the hospital he had another episode and went through the worst experience so far. They tried to stabilize him and help relieve his pain. After awhile he was stable and able to rest for the night.&lt;br /&gt;    He had another endoscopy Friday afternoon to remove the temporary stent that was placed a few weeks ago and to look further into his bile ducts to once again try to find the cause of this liver not draining. His doctor found that a tumor in the liver was pressing on the bile duct and squeezing it off. The doctor thinks that this is  the cause of the blockage. He cleaned out that area and placed a metal stent there to hopefully help it drain. The other arm of the duct might also be blocked and after they monitor him this week, he might need another stent put into the other part of the bile duct. The good news is that we finally have an answer to his problem and that they know that the tumor was causing the problem. When they didn't find anything else wrong the last time he was in the hospital, his oncologist had to assume that is was the cancer and wanted to start treating it right away. So now that is seems that was the case, he is already on treatment and hopefully we will start seeing results soon. Best case senario would be that the bile is draining now because of the stent. His bilirubin was extremely high but his doctor said his liver is still functioning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-6377638294546283147?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/6377638294546283147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=6377638294546283147' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6377638294546283147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6377638294546283147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/12/again-in-hospital.html' title='Again in the hospital'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-7039922922396346193</id><published>2011-12-13T22:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T20:37:30.696-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Never loose Hope. Nunca perder las Esperanzas</title><content type='html'>On Monday of last week I was released from the hospital. They have preformed all the diagnostic tests possible to help determine the cause of my pain and the reason my liver is not functioning well. They have revived me with IV nutrition TPN. They studied my blood results and prepared a solution especially designed for me to give me all the vitamins and minerals that I was lacking. Even lipids (fat).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wR4-sKvtuqU/Tul5R7y9InI/AAAAAAAAD50/bv7MTbe6V-M/s1600/IMGP8166.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wR4-sKvtuqU/Tul5R7y9InI/AAAAAAAAD50/bv7MTbe6V-M/s320/IMGP8166.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686209353548112498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;English&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    I arrived at the hospital in a serious situation. I could not eat and could not handle the pain in my back and stomach any longer. I had lost a lot of weight in a short time.&lt;br /&gt;    After all the possible tests were done looking at my digestive track all the results came back negative. Everything seemed to be fine.  They could not find anything wrong and assumed that it could be the cancer blocking the ducts in the liver. The CT scans showed that the tumors in my liver were stable but that the cancer cells are so small that they could have grown into the ducts and was possibly not detectable on the scans.  My liver was still functioning but it was not draining. And this was causing  the strong pains because the ducts were blocked and the bilirubin was backing up in my system and causing all kinds of terrible symptoms. Hard to imagine but the pain was intolerable and radiated all over my upper body from my chest to my back.&lt;br /&gt;     Many days passed without knowing what was causing all of this. The doctors at Hoag Hospital worked around the clock on my case coming throughout the day to visit me and give me the latest results of the tests still not knowing what was the cause. At the same time the bilirubin in my body was going up everyday. When I entered the hospital it was at 4, normal is under 1. By the end of my stay in the hospital it was up to 17. Finally last Friday, December 2nd my doctors came and gave me the news that it seemed to be the cancer causing the problem and that I needed to start chemo as soon as possible to kill these cells and to open these ducts that carry the bilirubin from the liver to the intestines. Sunday I received the first infusion of this  chemo that has 3 new drugs that I have never had before. I am now home and it feels like the recuperation will be very slow. I feel that my body is very tired and fatigued all day. I can walk but very slowly. Anyways I try everyday to go on a short walk.&lt;br /&gt;     It was very difficult to be in the hospital especially the first week when they gave me the IV nutrition and fluids. And not knowing what was wrong with me. I had to have a lot of patience and to be honest I was very worried that the problem was with my liver and that it wasn't functioning well. It was very serious what was happening and If they couldn't find an answer there weren't many options left. And every time that this fear passed through my head I would turn to Him, who takes away my fears, doubts, and makes me feel peace again and strengthens my hope, God.&lt;br /&gt;    This new chemo regimen that I have never had before,  is the only solution they have now to help my liver.&lt;br /&gt;    Today I had more chemotheraphy and this coming up Friday I am having another endoscopy to remove the stemt that was placed in the main duct that goes from the liver to the intestine.&lt;br /&gt;   As soon as I have some news I will share it with you.&lt;br /&gt;                    &lt;br /&gt;God Exists&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SPANISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  Hacen unos 9 días fue mi ultima día de internacion en el Hospital. Fueron casi 2 semanas ahí donde me revivieron con alimentacion por zonda donde me infiltraban con todo&lt;br /&gt; lo que se veia que me faltaba que me faltaba en la sangre como ser minerales y vitaminas y otras sustancias.&lt;br /&gt;  Acá llegue en un estado de emergencia donde ya no podía comer mas y no soportaba los dolores en la espalda y en el pecho. Había perdido mucho peso en muy poco días.  &lt;br /&gt;  Después de que me hicieran todos los examenes médicos que existen para todo el sistema digestivo y que todos dieran negativos, es decir que todos salieron bien.&lt;br /&gt;  No se encontró nada malo, los medicos dedujeron que lo que me estaba pasando era que el cancer se había ido a otras partes del hígado pero no se puedo ver nada en los estudios por se tan pequeñas estas células cancerigenas pero suficientemente grandes para bloquear el pasaje de la bilis a el conducto principal que la transporta hacia el intestino donde se comienza a producir la digestión. Y esto me ocasionaba los dolores fortísimos que sentía porque al cerrarse muchos de los conductos chiquitos que drenan la bilis del hígado, se hinchan y esto aunque me cueste creerlo, producen un dolor que es inaguantable que se esparce hacia otras zonas del pecho y de la espalda.&lt;br /&gt;  Fueron varios días sin saber que es lo que estaba causando todo esto. Los doctores de este Hospital no pararon de trabajar en mi caso, venían todo el tiempo a informarme como iban todos los estudios y que se había visto y siempre escuchaba que no sabían todavía que era. A la vez la bilirrubina en mi cuerpo iba aumentando todo los días y sigue aumentando.&lt;br /&gt;  Finalmente el viernes pasado que fue el 2 de Diciembre, me vinieron a dar la confirmación  que era aumento del cancer en el hígado la causa de este problema y que tenia que empezar con quimioterapia lo antes posible para matar esas células y así poder abrir esos conductos que transportan bilis hacia el intestino.&lt;br /&gt;   El Domingo me dieron la primer quimioterapia compuesta por 3 drogas nuevas que nunca me las habían dado antes.&lt;br /&gt;  Ahora ya en casa siento que la recuperación  va muy despacio. Siento mi cuerpo muy cansado todo el día, puedo caminar pero muy lento, igual lo hago y trato de hacerlo todos los días y lo mas que pueda. MI seguro medico me puedo mandar un fisio terapeuta y  ya muy pronto y  no tengo que pagar nada, me lo cubre totalmente mi seguro.&lt;br /&gt;   Fueron días muy dificiles en el Hospital principalmente la primer semana, cuando me alimentaron con fluidos nada mas y por vena. y no saber hasta mas o menos el octavo día, que era lo que tenia, que es lo que estaba causando todo esto.  Tuve que tener mucha paciencia y no lo voy a ocultar, me vino miedo varias veces por  saber que el problema estaba en el hígado y  no se encontraba funcionando bien y que era muy serio lo que me estaría ocurriendo y que si no me podían solucionar esto entonces podría pasar lo peor. Y cada vez que esto me pasaba por mi cabeza recurrí siempre a El, el que me ayuda en los momentos dificiles a discipar de mi cuerpo el miedo, las dudas, y me da paz y fortalece aun mas mis esperanzas, Dios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Esta quimioterapia con 3 drogas que nunca antes me las habían dado, es el único método que tienen por ahora para solucionar este problema en mi hígado.&lt;br /&gt;  Ni bien tenga alguna notica nueva de todo esto, se los voy a comunicar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios Existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-7039922922396346193?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/7039922922396346193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=7039922922396346193' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7039922922396346193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7039922922396346193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/12/never-loose-hope-nunca-perder-las.html' title='Never loose Hope. Nunca perder las Esperanzas'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wR4-sKvtuqU/Tul5R7y9InI/AAAAAAAAD50/bv7MTbe6V-M/s72-c/IMGP8166.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-347625586304450081</id><published>2011-11-29T21:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T22:43:13.683-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Latest News</title><content type='html'>Fede was admitted to the hospital on November 23rd. He has been in the hospital for one week now. Fede was having pain that was increasingly getting worse over the past month and a half. His doctors thought that it was muscular and joint pain and were treating him for that. The pain was unbearable in his back and stomach. He was also having problems eating. After a few bites of food he was getting nausea and all of these strange symptoms. He was loosing weight fast. His doctor ordered an MRI of his back to rule out cancer in his bones. It came back clear. A week and half ago he had an endoscopy and it also came back good. Not even any sign of the original tumor in his esophagus. His blood work was fine. But we knew something was terribly wrong. Finally by last Wednesday we went to his doctor and he took one look at Fede and admitted him directly to the hospital.&lt;br /&gt;    When we got to the hospital his blood results showed an elevated bilirubin. They thought it might be his gallbladder. They went in on Thursday and put a stent into his bile duct to help the bilirubin flow better. They discoverd that that was only a small part of the problem. Fede's ducts in his liver seem to be not funtioning well and therefore the bile is not being processed and instead is backing up into his system. &lt;br /&gt;    Fede has now been undergoing every test possible. He has had another MRI, ct scans, blood tests, urine and fecal tests and today he has a biopsy of his liver. Tomorrow he will have an colonoscopy. They want to make sure they are checking every possible cause. He is taking a medicine to help thin out the bile so that is flows better but their big concern is his liver. They were hoping that after the stent was placed his bilirubin would start to come down to normal but it has not and it has gone up a little higher each day. The rest of his liver enzymes are almost back to normal and that is good news, meaning that the liver is still functioning. The main problem is with the ducts and the bile not draining. He is jaundice with the bile backing up in his system. And his is also retaining fluid in his abdomen which is very uncomfortable. They are in the middle of these tests so we still don't have any solid answers. &lt;br /&gt;      Fede is still optimistic and full of hope. But he knows that this is a hard road. He is at Hoag hospital in Newport Beach and is being treated very well. He wants to get back home to his family but also wants to make sure the doctors find the cause of this problem. &lt;br /&gt;       Thank you all for your prayers,support and encouragement. Fede really appreciates your friendship! He is not giving up hope and we pray for a miracle!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-347625586304450081?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/347625586304450081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=347625586304450081' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/347625586304450081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/347625586304450081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/11/latest-news.html' title='Latest News'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1160228686294066392</id><published>2011-10-25T23:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-07T22:26:32.255-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Everyday is a new gift of life.  Cada día es un regalo mas de vida</title><content type='html'>It has been a while since I wrote the last time. It is not that I don't want to write anymore , but it is not easy to find time to do it.&lt;br /&gt;I had my last chemotherapy session more than a month ago. Two weeks after that I had a scan and it showed that it is everything stable..&lt;br /&gt;For now  I am going to start getting only one chemotherapy drug every 2 weeks for maintenance. And my doctors will keep a close eye on things. This will be a break for my body to recover a little.&lt;br /&gt;I was expecting to start feeling good once I was off of full chemotherapy, but I have not been feeling well..&lt;br /&gt;Strong pains in my back and chest started to occur all day long and getting worse at night. I didn't have these pains in the last 7 months of chemo this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-deGPgeYy6lw/TqewBi6Oh_I/AAAAAAAAD5E/rlNP7KLcLUU/s1600/img_6629.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-deGPgeYy6lw/TqewBi6Oh_I/AAAAAAAAD5E/rlNP7KLcLUU/s320/img_6629.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667692196666443762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My doctor explained to me that chemotherapy also works as a big anti-inflammatory drug and once you stop with it and the drugs in the body ware off, then pains in the body could reappear if there was a problem before in the muscles and joints.&lt;br /&gt;I've been taking anti-inflamatory drugs and sometimes I need to take medicine to stop the pain so I can sleep good at night.&lt;br /&gt;I want to  start being more intense with yoga which I believe it is going to help me to heal this muscular and joint problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g_YqZJD1nPc/TqewN-unU3I/AAAAAAAAD5Q/J-tyIZu1Jrs/s1600/img_6630.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g_YqZJD1nPc/TqewN-unU3I/AAAAAAAAD5Q/J-tyIZu1Jrs/s320/img_6630.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667692410292360050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; If you are not going through any health issue, this is a great opportunity to take better care of your body adding to it more energy by eating healthier foods and working out to make it more flexible and more oxygenated.&lt;br /&gt; Some people have asked me to write about some good tips for nutrition and some good recipes for food. It is very simple. You do not have to complety change all the meals you are used to eating . We have to eat the same but with whole foods, the most organic possible with no GMO (genetic modified) and without MSG.&lt;br /&gt;If you like to eat at fast food places, know that all the food they use to cook there has MSG, nothing is made with whole foods, a lot of their food is GMO and all the meats contain hormones and antibiotics. In summary, it is all poison food for the body. &lt;br /&gt;It is very important to reduce the intake of carbohydrates, eat everything whole food, add more vegetables to your diet and limit  the sugar.&lt;br /&gt;Drink lots of mineral water and eat foods with good fiber like beans, that have a lot of good fiber in small amounts of it. &lt;br /&gt; And don't take any artificial sweetner, they are poison for the body. I recommend Stevia that its sweet and natural and also agave.&lt;br /&gt;Take advantage if you don't have any health issue and feed yourself the most healthy possible and you'll get more energy and you'll strengthen your defenses.&lt;br /&gt;I wished someone would have told me this way before i was diagnosed with this cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be so grateful with each new day of life, don't let go by any without loving. Enjoy the oxygen you breath and all the nature you see around. And love and take car of the Earth being a good example for other and thus get contagious other to do it. Don't wait for tomorrow. And recycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico   (In the pictures, my son Mateo and my daughter Lucia making home made pizza with the help of my wife Marcia )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; SPANISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que escribí la ultima vez. No es que no quiera escribir mas, sino que no me es fácil destinarle tiempo a mi Blog para hacerlo. Hace un mes que me dieron la ultima infiltración de quimioterapia. A las dos semanas de haber terminado me hicieron una tomografía y dio que todo sigue estable. A partir de este Miércoles me van a ir dando cada dos semanas como mantenimiento, una de las 3 drogas de quimioterapia que no tiene efectos secundarios fuertes. Es mas que todo para darle un descanso a mi cuerpo de tantas drogas de quimioterapia.&lt;br /&gt;Pensaba que me iba a empezar a sentir cada vez mas normal a penas terminara con esta ultima sesion de quimioterapia, pero no fue así.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SFgyNTXrW7Y/TqexebopVxI/AAAAAAAAD5c/vvDzIJkRteA/s1600/img_6626.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SFgyNTXrW7Y/TqexebopVxI/AAAAAAAAD5c/vvDzIJkRteA/s320/img_6626.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667693792441489170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me comenzaron a aparecer fuertes dolores en la espalda y en le pecho y estomago, algo que no me paso durante estos 7 meses pasados.&lt;br /&gt;Me explico mi doctor que la quimioterapia actúa también como un fuerte antinflamatorio y que si yo tengo algún problema muscular, los dolores aparecen cuando se para de dar quimioterapia. Para esto estoy tomando antinflamatorios y a veces necesito remdios que me paren el dolor completamente especialmente para poder dormir bien a la noche.  Estoy haciendo mas yoga para ayudar a aliviar los dolores que tengo en las articulaciones y musculos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si no estas pasando por ningún problema de salud, es una gran oportunidad para cuidar tu cuerpo mejor aun dándole mas energía comiendo bien sano y haciendo ejercicios físicos que lo mantengan flexible y bien oxigenado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gud5FymlY1c/TqopghGopeI/AAAAAAAAD5o/c_Kt7Vmr90M/s1600/img_6647.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gud5FymlY1c/TqopghGopeI/AAAAAAAAD5o/c_Kt7Vmr90M/s320/img_6647.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668388719617943010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya varios me han pedido que escribiera sobre nutrición sana y alguna receta de comida. Es muy simple, no hay que cambiar tanto los menús que uno esta acostumbrado desde hace tiempo, solo hay que comer lo mismo pero integral, orgánico en lo mas posible que se pueda, las carnes sin hormonas, sin antibióticos y evitar todo lo que este crecido con cambio genético y sin MSG. Para los que les gusta ir a comer a los lugares de comida rápida como por ser Mc Donalds, sepan que toda la comida que ofrecen ahí contiene MSG, nada es integral, mucho tiene cambio genético y las carnes que utilizan son las mas baratas que contiene hormonas y antibióticos, en resumen, es todo un veneno para el cuerpo.&lt;br /&gt;Para los o las que quieran bajar de peso, les recomiendo que no vean a ningún dietologo, es muy simple bajar de peso, ejercicio y comida sana.&lt;br /&gt;Reducir lo mas posible el consumo de carbohidratos, comer todo integral, agregarle mas verduras a la dieta, y limitar el consumo azúcar agregada, mucha agua mineral y comidas con buena fibra como ser porotos que contienen muchisima fibra en muy poca cantidad. Y yo no les cobro nada por&lt;br /&gt;decirles que hacer, jaja. Todo esas pastillas que venden para poder bajar de peso no va, es todo un enganio, todos quieren hacer buen dinero.&lt;br /&gt;Y cuidado con todos esos endulzantes artificiales, son veneno para el cuerpo. Para endulzar les recomiendo Stivia que es dulce, es natural y no es azúcar, también agave, que se metaboliza muchisimo mas lento en el cuerpo que el azúcar y es natural también.&lt;br /&gt;Aprovechen si no están atravesando ningún problema de salud para alimentarse bien sano y darle al cuerpo muchisima mas energía y así también fortalecer bien las defensas. Ojala alguien me hubiese dicho esto a mi muchisimo antes de haberme agarrado esta enfermedad.&lt;br /&gt;Agradezcan muchisimo cada día nuevo de vida, no dejen pasar uno sin amar, disfruten el oxigeno que respiran y toda la naturaleza que vean alrededor y quieran y cuiden la Tierra siendo un buen ejemplo para los demás y así contagiar a otros a hacerlo. No esperen a mañana.&lt;br /&gt;Y Reciclen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico  (Fotos de mi hijo Mateo y mi hija Lucia haciendo pizza casera con la ayuda de mi esposa Marcia)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1160228686294066392?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1160228686294066392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1160228686294066392' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1160228686294066392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1160228686294066392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/10/everyday-is-new-gift-of-life-cada-dia.html' title='Everyday is a new gift of life.  Cada día es un regalo mas de vida'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-deGPgeYy6lw/TqewBi6Oh_I/AAAAAAAAD5E/rlNP7KLcLUU/s72-c/img_6629.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4684305284282569965</id><published>2011-08-25T17:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-27T22:17:33.437-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='u'/><title type='text'>Loving life more.  Amando mas la vida.</title><content type='html'> I had another ct scan this week and the results came back stable. Nothing shrunk and thankfully nothing grew compared to the last scan two months ago. The lymph nodes in my chest are normal size. I am going to continue with these chemo treatments for 2 more months then I will have a PET scan that shows if there is any live cancer activity within the tumors. This scan is much more complete and will give a better view of what's going on. After that my doctor will consider doing radiation to the tumors in my liver and the one on my kidney along with one of the chemo drugs that doesn't have many side effects. This drug is called Avastin and it has been widely used for over 5 years. This drug targets specific proteins that block the blood supply to the tumors. It has been a big advancement in treating certain types of cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8mr-kNvvI/TlbmBcoE1hI/AAAAAAAAD4M/vFol2OdSVKw/s1600/img_6357.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8mr-kNvvI/TlbmBcoE1hI/AAAAAAAAD4M/vFol2OdSVKw/s320/img_6357.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644952095494034962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This past Monday I had more chemotherapy. Now I am having some side effects like nausea, irritation in my stomach, and diarrhea.I feel all my body heavy. It is always the same the first 4 days and then around the 5th day I start feeling that slowly my body is getting back to normal. I am having another treatment of  chemotherapy next Monday again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-traqNkGQIuM/TlbmdjmOw_I/AAAAAAAAD4U/_a8SC46KTm4/s1600/img_6295.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-traqNkGQIuM/TlbmdjmOw_I/AAAAAAAAD4U/_a8SC46KTm4/s320/img_6295.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644952578401682418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like I've said in previous posts, we shouldn't depend on conventional medicine only to treat cancer and other diseases. There is so much more we can do alternatively  that can help conventional medicine be more effective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not easy to find a place that combines both conventional and holistic medicine. So it is up to oneself to find beneficial information. After researching and learning so much information I'm convinced that conventional medicine alone is incomplete and can  be extreme and some times dangerous. I believe in a balanced approach that integrates both types of medicines and treats the whole person.  Health insurances only covers conventional medicine and all the beneficial treatments outside of that you have to pay for out of your own pocket.  And most of the people don't know this and completely trust in just what the conventional medicine is offering them. It is not fair or just that it is so difficult for the people  to find the information on alternative methods and healthy nutrition.  For example, how to eat healthily based on a integral and organic nutrition and the healing and healthy properties of so many fruits and vegetables.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MDC5WkQIPug/TlbmuHbiyYI/AAAAAAAAD4c/ux_MUgv6_BI/s1600/img_6332.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MDC5WkQIPug/TlbmuHbiyYI/AAAAAAAAD4c/ux_MUgv6_BI/s320/img_6332.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644952862898440578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My main strength, peace and hope comes from my faith in Jesus Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SPANISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me hicieron una nueva tomografía la semana pasada y dio que todo esta estable, ningún tumor se achico como se veía en las tomografías anteriores.&lt;br /&gt;Los nódulos linfáticos en el pecho están en su tamaño normal. Me extendieron dos meses mas de quimioterapia y después  me hacen una tomografía mas completa donde se va a ver cuanto hay de actividad cancerigena dentro de los tumores. Y luego cabe la posibilidad de que me hagan radiación directamente en los tumores del hígado y en el que esta por encima de uno de los riñones. Y si no se pudiera hacer radiación continuaría hasta fin de año con una de las drogas de quimioterapia que no tiene efectos secundarios. Esta droga se llama Avastin y hace alrededor de cinco años que se esta usando en quimioterapia.&lt;br /&gt;Es una droga que funciona localmente  y no afecta al resto del cuerpo como lo hacen las mayoría de las otras drogas de quimioterapia. Esto es un gran avance de la medicina convencional que apunta a una  quimioterapia mas efectiva y con menos efectos secundarios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CnCdT5xBpos/Tlbnz7bwfGI/AAAAAAAAD4k/XlFayAscAsw/s1600/img_6214.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CnCdT5xBpos/Tlbnz7bwfGI/AAAAAAAAD4k/XlFayAscAsw/s320/img_6214.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644954062268955746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este Lunes me dieron quimioterapia y ahora estoy teniendo efectos secundarios como naucea, irritación en el estomago, diarrea y siento el cuerpo pesado. Es siempre igual los primeros 4 días después que me la dan, recién como al 5to día comienzo a sentir que mi cuerpo comienza a sentirse normal otra vez. El proximo Lunes me hacen mas quimioterapia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y1eKRr6s1jQ/TlboiqThnAI/AAAAAAAAD4s/__mXmD-lf4Y/s1600/img_6303.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y1eKRr6s1jQ/TlboiqThnAI/AAAAAAAAD4s/__mXmD-lf4Y/s320/img_6303.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644954865124875266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como ya dije en otras ocasiones, no hay que solo depender de la medicina convencional para el tratamiento de cancer  o para cualquier otra enfermedad. Hay mucho mas para hacer&lt;br /&gt;alternativamente y que ayuda muchisimo para lo que hagamos convencionalmente se mas efectivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1eg1XvVs0bY/TlbpS-_lgOI/AAAAAAAAD48/8U2nBqz93Ac/s1600/img_6314.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1eg1XvVs0bY/TlbpS-_lgOI/AAAAAAAAD48/8U2nBqz93Ac/s320/img_6314.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644955695312109794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No es fácil encontrar en este mundo un lugar  donde se combine lo convencional con lo hollístico. Entonces pasa por uno mismo en  buscar información sobre que poder hacer alternativamente.&lt;br /&gt;Después de haber descubierto tanta información benéfica del lado holístico, no tengo ninguna duda que la medicina convencional por si sola no es completa, puede llegar a ser exagerada en el empleo de medicamentos y hasta peligrosa.  Tendría que existir solamente una medicina "integral" donde se combine lo holístico con lo convencional y asi seria mas equilibrada y mas consciente.&lt;br /&gt;Uno espera recibir todo de la medicina convencional y no es asi y tenemos nuestro seguro medico que solo sirve para esta solamente y todo lo que hagamos alternativamente que sea beneficioso para nuestra salud lo tenemos que pagar de nuestro propio bolsillo.&lt;br /&gt;  Y la mayoría de le gente no lo sabe esto y confía completamente en solo lo que le ofrece la medicina convencional. Y no es justo que no les sea fácil a la gente recibir toda esa información, por ejemplo, de como alimentarse sanamente basado en una nutricion completamente integral y  orgánica y sobre las priopiedades curativas y benéficas para la salud de tantas especies frutales y vegetales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qnAlwJhWWhw/Tlbo49qp3KI/AAAAAAAAD40/DKhtYwvsWUc/s1600/img_6326.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qnAlwJhWWhw/Tlbo49qp3KI/AAAAAAAAD40/DKhtYwvsWUc/s320/img_6326.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644955248279280802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi fuerza principal, paz y esperanza provienen de mi fe en Jesucristo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4684305284282569965?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4684305284282569965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4684305284282569965' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4684305284282569965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4684305284282569965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/08/loving-life-more-amando-mas-la-vida.html' title='Loving life more.  Amando mas la vida.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8mr-kNvvI/TlbmBcoE1hI/AAAAAAAAD4M/vFol2OdSVKw/s72-c/img_6357.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1939270813240580399</id><published>2011-07-08T23:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-18T20:17:46.594-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4 años. 4 years</title><content type='html'>El 25 de Junio llegue a 4 años desde que me diagnosticaron esta enfermedad. Cuando me detectaron este cancer ya estaba en el grado mas alto y me había hecho metástasis en otros órganos.&lt;br /&gt; Que pueda haber llegado a vivir tanto tiempo con este cancer creo que ha sido posible gracias a todo lo que les voy a escribir acá.&lt;br /&gt;Primero mi fe en Jesucristo y asi poder conocer en lo que creo con fe, al Dios verdadero que me da esta paz interior que siento todos los días.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FYrL_bvZ5Sk/Thf64Y3_hnI/AAAAAAAAD3k/FX1DtiWJdjw/s1600/img_6159.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FYrL_bvZ5Sk/Thf64Y3_hnI/AAAAAAAAD3k/FX1DtiWJdjw/s320/img_6159.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627242106079643250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El gran amor mutuo que tenemos con mi esposa y mis hijos y la felicidad que siento con ellos todos los días. El amor que tengo y recibo de de mis padres, mis hermanos, suegros, cuñados y otros parientes.&lt;br /&gt;Toda la ayuda, apoyo anímico y afecto de amigos, médicos tradicionales y holisticos, enfermeras, enfermeros y de tanta gente, muchos que nunca conocí en persona.&lt;br /&gt;Mis ganas de vivir y estar activo asi tenga dias en los que no me sienta bien.&lt;br /&gt;Mi voluntad por aprender a vivir una vida mas sana y hacer los ajustes necesarios para combatir mucho mejor esta enfermedad con mas efectividad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estoy escribiendo este nuevo blog mientras me estan dando quimioterapia hoy Jueves. Hace ya 4 horas que estoy acá y me quedan unas 2 horas mas. La ultima tomografía que me hicieron hace 2 semanas mostró que todo el cancer se sigue achicando. Los tumores del hígado se achicaron mucho mas, el del rinion muy poco y los nódulos linfáticos en el pecho ya están en su tamaño normal pero se ve que tienen actividad cancerigena pero disminuyo bastante en comparación a la tomografía&lt;br /&gt;anterior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A vos que me estas leyendo, gracias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hasta la próxima&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico  (En las fotos estoy con mis hijos y mi esposa y enseñandole a mi hija a hacer windsurf)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ENGLISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 25th of June was 4 years since I was diagnosed with this disease. When this cancer was detected it was already stage 4 and it had metastasized to other organs.  To have been able to live this long I believe was possible thanks to everything I am going to write you here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ysKgPntDoY/Thf7tlNdBqI/AAAAAAAAD30/sbBezdUM5-g/s1600/img_6163.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ysKgPntDoY/Thf7tlNdBqI/AAAAAAAAD30/sbBezdUM5-g/s320/img_6163.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627243019923949218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First my faith in Jesus Christ, what I believe with faith, makes me know the true God who gives me this interior peace that I feel everyday.&lt;br /&gt;The mutual love I have with my wife and my children and the happiness I feel with them everyday.&lt;br /&gt;The love that I have and receive from my parents, my brother and sisters, my in-laws, my brothers and sister in law and other relatives.&lt;br /&gt;All the help, encouragement and affection from friends, traditional and holistic doctors, nurses and from so many people and many who I have never met  in person.&lt;br /&gt;My love and excitement to live and be active even on days that I am not feeling well.&lt;br /&gt;My will to learn to live a healthier life and to make the necessary adjustments to battle this cancer effectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2e1UuaJ0N50/Thf8gM-sqhI/AAAAAAAAD38/8Y58T_eVawY/s1600/Ichi%2By%2Bpapa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2e1UuaJ0N50/Thf8gM-sqhI/AAAAAAAAD38/8Y58T_eVawY/s320/Ichi%2By%2Bpapa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627243889592936978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fNDtqMmTOYY/Thf9McVwuxI/AAAAAAAAD4E/SnO40R5WwiU/s1600/IMG_1422.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fNDtqMmTOYY/Thf9McVwuxI/AAAAAAAAD4E/SnO40R5WwiU/s320/IMG_1422.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627244649630448402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am writing this new post while I am getting  chemotherapy. I've been here 4 hours and I assume there are 2 more hours to go.&lt;br /&gt;The last scan that I had 2 weeks ago showed again that this cancer keeps on getting smaller. The tumors in the liver shrank more, the one in the kidney got a little smaller and the lymph nodes in the chest are at normal size now but they still show some cancer activity. Overall it was a good scan showing that the chemotherapy is helping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To you that are reading this, thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until the next one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico (In the pictures I am with my kids and my wife and teaching my daughter how to windsurf.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1939270813240580399?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1939270813240580399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1939270813240580399' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1939270813240580399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1939270813240580399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/07/4-anos-4-years.html' title='4 años. 4 years'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FYrL_bvZ5Sk/Thf64Y3_hnI/AAAAAAAAD3k/FX1DtiWJdjw/s72-c/img_6159.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-5200116272599650093</id><published>2011-06-04T08:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T18:30:21.301-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Almost 4 years. Casi 4 años</title><content type='html'>We are coming up on an important milestone for Fede and our family. On June 25, it will be 4 years since Fede was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. His doctors thought he had less than a year to live as most patients with this type of cancer and the late stage that is was when diagnosed, usually live. We can honestly say that we have enjoyed life to the fullest in these last 4 years and Fede's quality of life has been wonderful, considering his circumstances! He has been fully involved with his kids lives, never missing a moment to spend time with them. Our son was only 3 months old when Fede was diagnosed, so we can measure the last four years by how long Mateo has been on this earth. And this is what we  hoped and prayed for. That Fede would be given the chance to raise our kids and watch them grow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iWPFUSg-9GM/TepQwq37GaI/AAAAAAAAD3M/gqexRAuJBi4/s1600/img_5977.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iWPFUSg-9GM/TepQwq37GaI/AAAAAAAAD3M/gqexRAuJBi4/s320/img_5977.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614388682543536546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; And what a blessing it has been. They adore him. They have had the unusual chance to have their dad home and not working full time. Spending so much quality time with him. And we are beyond blessed for that.  We didn't know what to expect with Fede's treatment, side effects, limitations, and procedures and we wondered how our life was going to be dealing with this cancer, but it has been amazing journey! By learning to stay focused on each day and not worry(too much) about what the future holds has helped us to walk through this trial. I don't want to make it sound easy. Fede has been on chemo off and on for almost 4 years straight. He has lost his hair, experienced terrible, unimaginable side effects, gone through 2 procedures and many, many scans and radiation. His new job became managing his treatment. Doctors appointments every week, scans, insurance issues and new treatments. And through it all he has remained positive, upbeat, full of life and determined to fight for his life and for his family. We have been married for ten years and I have learned so many new and wonderful things about Fede. His strength and faith inspires me. I have NEVER met anyone who has as much hope as Fede. He is full of hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-daOAY19S2_U/TepRJ3jf6NI/AAAAAAAAD3U/JgETfPbftlw/s1600/img_5981.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-daOAY19S2_U/TepRJ3jf6NI/AAAAAAAAD3U/JgETfPbftlw/s320/img_5981.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614389115444259026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     All that to say, the last few weeks have been rough. We are coming out of a challenging time with this new chemo protocol. The most serious side effect being diarrhea came full force and stopped him in his tracks. Even pre-treating him with anti-diarrheal medicine wasn't helping. He really thought he was going to have to change this treatment. After his last scans showed that it was working, his doctor  wanted to find a way to continue because it was giving such good results. Fede was feeling like his quality of life was not good, he was loosing weight, and it was making him feel terribly weak. I'm relieved to say that after 3 appointments with gastroenterologists, this last round of chemo has been smooth. He has been strong, and feeling more like himself again. And if he didn't have a lot on his plate already, he sprained his foot this last Sunday and hasn't been able to walk. He has been on crutches for a week so far. Although it was terrible, we were so happy that it wasn't broken. So hopefully this will heal soon so he can get back to his active self! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mCS4in40-Bs/TepSBJncFJI/AAAAAAAAD3c/zZu8-Hndvrg/s1600/img_5558.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mCS4in40-Bs/TepSBJncFJI/AAAAAAAAD3c/zZu8-Hndvrg/s320/img_5558.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614390065185428626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;      He has his next round of chemo this coming Monday, June 6th.  Our daughter and son will be finishing up with school and we are looking forward to enjoying family time all summer.&lt;br /&gt; Thanks for your continued support, prayers and love. With the help of so many people, friends, family and even people we have never met personally, we have been able to survive these last four years. We feel very blessed by all of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marci Pecora (Fede's wife)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(In the pictures, Fede, my daughter Lucia, my son Mateo and me.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Español &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estamos aproximandonos a una importante fecha para Fede y nuestra familia. El 25 de Junio van a ser 4 años desde que  fue diagnosticado con este cancer. Los doctores pensaban que tenia menos de un año para vivir de acuerdo a lo que la mayoría de los pacientes viven con este tipo de cancer y grado 4, que es el mas alto, con el cual fue diagnosticado.&lt;br /&gt;Puedo decir honestamente que hemos disfrutado la vida al máximo en estos últimos 4 años y que la calidad de vida de Fede ha sido bellisima, considerando las circunstancias. Ha estado completamente involucrado con las vida de nuestros hijos, nunca perdiéndose un momento para estar con ellos. Nuestro hijo solo tenia 3 meses cuando lo diagnosticaron con esta enfermedad, así que la edad de Mateo es nuestra referencia  de cuanto tiempo hemos estado viviendo esta nueva experiencia en nuestras vidas.  Y esto es lo que le pedimos siempre a Dios y esperamos, que Fede pueda tener la posibilidad de criar a sus hijos y verlos crecer. Y que bendición ha sido. Mateo y Lucia lo adoran a a su padre. Ellos han tenido algo que no es común, tener a su papa en casa ya que no puede trabajar normalmente como sucede con la mayoría de los papas. Y nos sentimos mas que bendecidos por esto, de estar tanto tiempo juntos con El disfrutando tanto.&lt;br /&gt; Al principio no sabíamos que iba a ocurrir con todo lo que le iban a hacer a Fede, con los efectos secundarios de las drogas, intervenciones, y nos preguntábamos como iban a ser nuestras vidas a partir de ahora viviendo con esta enfermedad.&lt;br /&gt;Pero el camino ha sido asombroso ! Aprendiendo a estar enfocados en cada día y no preocuparnos por el futuro, nos ha ayudado a enfrentar mejor esta prueba. No quiero que esto suene fácil. A Fede le han dado muchisima quimioterapia en 4 años. Ha perdido todo el pelo, ha experimentado terribles inimaginables efectos secundarios, le han hecho dos cirujías no invasivas, biopsias en el hígado, endoscopias, otras intervenciones pequeñas, y muchas tomografías, muchas  resonancias magnéticas y radiación en el hígado.  Uno de nuestros nuevos trabajos hoy es organizar los turnos con los doctores todas las semanas, tomografías, llamados al seguro medico y nuevos tratamientos. Y asi con todo esto a cuestas El se ha mantenido siempre positivo, imbatible, lleno de vida y totalmente determinado a pelear por su vida y por su familia.&lt;br /&gt;Hemos estado casados por 10 años y yo he aprendido muchas cosas nuevas y maravillosas de Fede. Su fuerza y su fe me inspiran. No he conocido a nadie todavía que tenga tanta esperanza como El.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta quimioterapia nueva que acaba de comenzar hace mas de dos meses  ha sido bastante desafiante para nosotros. El efecto secundario serio mas reciente ha sido diarrea que lo mantuvo bastante inmovilizado por varias semanas.&lt;br /&gt;Así y todo tratando de prevenirlo con remedios para este efecto secundario no fue suficiente. Llego a pensar que iba a pedir de cambiar la quimioterapia. Después que su ultima tomografía mostró que todo se estaba achicando, su doctor quería encontrar una forma de continuar con las mismas drogas porque estaban dando muy buenos resultados en tan poco tiempo. Fede empezó a sentir que  así su calidad de vida no era nada buena, estaba perdiendo mucho peso y lo estaba haciendo sentir débil. Después de ver a 3 gastroenterologos y haber ajustado su dieta agregandole mucha mas fibra, todo ha cambiando para mejor y aparantemente ya todo esta bajo control.&lt;br /&gt;Ha empezado a aumentar de peso, a sentirse mas fuerte. Pero justo cuando había empezado a superar esto se esguinso el pie izquierdo el Domingo pasado haciendo su deporte preferido, windsurf y ahora esta con muletas. Por suerte no se rompió nada del pie.&lt;br /&gt;Su próxima quimioterapia es este Lunes, 6 de Junio.&lt;br /&gt;Nuestros hijos están por terminar el ciclo escolar y ya estamos pensando todo lo que vamos a disfrutar este verano acá en California juntos en familia.&lt;br /&gt;Gracias por su apoyo continuo, oraciones y  todo el amor. Con la ayuda de tanta gente, amigos, familiares y gente que no hemos conocido personalmente, hemos logrado llegar a afrontar  los gastos diarios y  de tratamiento durante todos estos años. Nos sentimos muy acompañados y bendecidos por todos ustedes. Gracias nuevamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marci (esposa de Fede)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(En las fotos estamos mis dos hijos, Fede y yo)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-5200116272599650093?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/5200116272599650093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=5200116272599650093' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5200116272599650093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5200116272599650093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/06/almost-4-years.html' title='Almost 4 years. Casi 4 años'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iWPFUSg-9GM/TepQwq37GaI/AAAAAAAAD3M/gqexRAuJBi4/s72-c/img_5977.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-3968811958929890252</id><published>2011-05-17T21:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-18T09:30:09.761-07:00</updated><title type='text'>And more hope. Y mas esperanza.</title><content type='html'>The CT scan that I had 2 weeks ago showed that everything is going down in size; the tumors in the liver, the tumor on one of the kidneys and the lymph nodes in the chest.&lt;br /&gt;Last Monday I got more chemotherapy. It has been hard to walk due to one strong side effect of one of the drugs. If this drug continues to cause this much pain, then I might take the decision to stop with this one.&lt;br /&gt;This has been one of the worst side effects since I started with treatment almost 4 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;Now that the cancer is getting smaller it is for me a shot of hope to know that I am going to live longer with this disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GtI3dOBkNLM/TdNP0nAMBEI/AAAAAAAAD3A/rOsdj_VkpPs/s1600/img_5861.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GtI3dOBkNLM/TdNP0nAMBEI/AAAAAAAAD3A/rOsdj_VkpPs/s320/img_5861.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607913726247961666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is on thing that is very important for everyone to know  since cancer is the biggest disease in the planet: Sugar is the main food of a cancer cell.&lt;br /&gt;For anyone who is facing any type of cancer, reducing  the intake of sugar and carbohydrates will give your conventional treatment a better possibility of being more effective. And to dominate the disease for a longer time.&lt;br /&gt;Please transmit this information to whoever you know that has cancer.&lt;br /&gt; Eat healthy, it is so worth it to make this beautiful effort. Food Inc, is a movie you must see. On the right side of this Blog you can find it, click and watch it.&lt;br /&gt;Don't give your money to food companies which don't care about your health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico  (The picture is of my son and my daughter)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La tomografía que me hicieron hace 2 semanas mostró que todo se esta achicando, los tumores en el hígado, el tumor arriba de uno de los riñones año y los nódulos linfáticos en el pecho.&lt;br /&gt;Este Lunes me pusieron mas quimioterapia y por un efecto muy fuerte de una de las drogas me cuesta caminar y me da  mucho dolor.&lt;br /&gt;Mi doctor decidió nuevamente de postergar la quimioterapia de este Lunes próximo para que me pueda recuperar de este síntoma.&lt;br /&gt;Este es uno de los peores efectos secundarios que he tenido desde que comencé con el tratamiento de cancer hace casi 4 años.&lt;br /&gt;Si esta droga continua causandome tanto dolor veré la opción de cambiarla por otra.&lt;br /&gt;El saber que este cancer se empezó a achicar es una inyección mas de esperanza el sentir que voy a poder vivir mas tiempo con esta enfermedad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sepan que el azúcar es el alimento principal de una célula cancerigena. Reduciendo lo mas posible el consumo de azúcar y carbohidratos son mas altas las posibilidades de que el tratamiento convencional sea mas efectivo y así poder dominar al cancer durante mucho mas tiempo. Por favor transmitan esta información a quien sepan que tenga cancer.&lt;br /&gt;Coman sano, vale la pena hacer este hermoso esfuerzo. Food Inc, una película para no perdersela. En este Blog esta a la derecha y la pueden ver.&lt;br /&gt;No le des tu dinero a las marcas de comida que no les importa tu salud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico  (La foto es de mi hija y mi hijo)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-3968811958929890252?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/3968811958929890252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=3968811958929890252' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/3968811958929890252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/3968811958929890252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-more-hope-y-mas-esperanza.html' title='And more hope. Y mas esperanza.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GtI3dOBkNLM/TdNP0nAMBEI/AAAAAAAAD3A/rOsdj_VkpPs/s72-c/img_5861.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-5156783395659404249</id><published>2011-04-23T22:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-25T22:57:07.068-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Easter. Felices Pascuas.</title><content type='html'>Here I am writing this new post while I am getting an infusion of chemotherapy. Today I started with my 2nd cycle. The will be a total of 5 rounds and it's going to take around 5 months to be done with it.&lt;br /&gt;I am going to be here almost 5 hours receiving 3 drugs plus 2 shots, one in my arm to keep my temperature from not going high and the other one in my rear end to prevent diarrhea.&lt;br /&gt;I will describe to you this place where I am. I am sitting in this comfortable recliner chair that I can lay it back to almost a bed. The room is about 10 by 4 meters. Three nurses are always with the patients and the 2 doctors are close to us for whatever we need and we have a consultation right there in the chair. The attention they give us is excellent.  In my case I always feel so comfortable here.&lt;br /&gt;At this time there are 6 people that are also getting chemotherapy. I brought some food, something to read and write and music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NIZ94M_zlX0/TbZcfEzuJLI/AAAAAAAAD2w/9xrKfoEqAxY/s1600/img_5533.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NIZ94M_zlX0/TbZcfEzuJLI/AAAAAAAAD2w/9xrKfoEqAxY/s320/img_5533.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599764875618165938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been having some ugly side effects but I am still enjoying my days anyways. Even though I don't feel good I add more strength and I play with my kids which makes me so happy. And they help me to transport my mind to their world of playing and innocence and this way it is a lot easier for me to hold all these uncomfortable sensations that I feel in my body.&lt;br /&gt;For example, I like to windsurf in waves and if the conditions are up for it I would try not to miss it even I don't feel good. When I am in the water I always feel good and the side effects of the drugs disappear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9G2ZtMKJsxQ/TbZc1ySexwI/AAAAAAAAD24/e2_NhVMZLRI/s1600/img_5540.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9G2ZtMKJsxQ/TbZc1ySexwI/AAAAAAAAD24/e2_NhVMZLRI/s320/img_5540.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599765265783899906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have written before that SUGAR is the main food of a cancer cell.  But I must keep on repeating this to help spread  this information. By cutting out the intake of sugars and carbohydrates, the cancer cells would not count on their main nutrient and thus would get weaker and they can also die. And any conventional treatment has more effectiveness this way. &lt;br /&gt;Please pass this information to any person you know who has cancer.&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow Sunday I will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ who I believe with faith,  has allowed me to know the real God. This God that I feel that feeds me with Hope, with more Love, with more Happiness, that helps me to take this illness with more Peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico  (In the pictures I am with my daughter Lucia and my son Mateo)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(You must see the movie Food Inc, it is on the right side of this Blog, just click on it.&lt;br /&gt; Learn about what happen with the food production worldwide and eat more wisely.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acá estoy escribiendo este nuevo post mientras me están dando quimioterapia. Hoy empecé con el 2do ciclo, en total van a ser 5 que llevaran en total unos 5 meses.&lt;br /&gt;Estaré unas 5 horas acá recibiendo 3 drogas mas dos inyecciones, una en el brazo para que no me suba la temperatura del cuerpo y la otra en la cola para evitar diarrea.&lt;br /&gt;Les describo como es el lugar donde estoy en este momento. Estoy sentado en un sillón comodisimo que lo puedo transformar casi en una cama. La habitación esta mide alrededor de 10 x 4 metros. Dos enfermeras y un enfermero están siempre con los pacientes y los dos doctores estan cerca nuestro todo el tiempo para lo que necesitemos consultarles, igual ellos nos vienen a hablar.  La atención que tienen con nosotros es óptima. En mi caso, me siento comodisimo.&lt;br /&gt;En este momento hay 6 personas mas que les están dando quimioterapia también. Me traje comida, algo para leer y escribir y música.&lt;br /&gt;Vengo teniendo algunos efectos secundarios feos pero así y todo disfruto mis días y así me sienta mal pongo mas fuerza y juego con mis hijos igual que me hace tan feliz. Y ellos me ayudan  a transportar mi cabeza hacia su mundo de juegos e inocencia y asi me es mucho mas fácil soportar las sensaciones incomodas que pueda sentir en mi cuerpo.&lt;br /&gt;A mi me gusta por ejemplo hacer windsurf en olas y siempre que pueda lo hago así no me sienta tan bien y cuando estoy en el agua me siento siempre bien y los efectos de las drogas desaparecen. &lt;br /&gt; Ya he escrito antes en algún otro post acerca de que se alimenta una célula cancerigena, AZÚCAR.  Pero debo seguir repitiéndolo para ayudar a que se propague esta información. Cortando lo mas posible el suministro de azúcar y carbohidratos en nuestro cuerpo, las células cancerigenas no cuentan tanto con su nutriente principal y así se debilitan y hasta pueden llega a morir. Y cualquier tratamiento convencional tiene mas efectividad. Por favor pasen esta información a cualquier persona que conozcan con cancer.&lt;br /&gt;Mañana festejare la resurrección de Jesucristo quien creo con fe que me ha hecho conocer al verdadero Dios. Ese Dios que siento que me nutre con Esperanza, con mas Amor, con mas Felicidad, que me ayuda a llevar esta enfermedad con mas Paz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico  (En las fotos estoy con mi hija Lucia y mi hijo Mateo)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Deben ver la pelicula Food Inc, esta a la derecha de este Blog, solo hagan click en el titulo.&lt;br /&gt;Aprendan de lo que pasa con la production de comida en todo el mundo y coman mas sabiamente.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-5156783395659404249?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/5156783395659404249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=5156783395659404249' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5156783395659404249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5156783395659404249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/04/aca-estoy-escribiendo-este-nuevo-post.html' title='Happy Easter. Felices Pascuas.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NIZ94M_zlX0/TbZcfEzuJLI/AAAAAAAAD2w/9xrKfoEqAxY/s72-c/img_5533.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-9082801160954268444</id><published>2011-03-24T20:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-01T23:16:03.701-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Latest news. Ultimas noticias</title><content type='html'>Just got the results from my last scan and it wasn't good at all, the cancer has spread to other parts in my body. So bad, when I was so close to be done with the tumors in the liver now it is in the lymph nodes on the chest and a tumor on top of one of the kidneys. &lt;br /&gt; So I am starting with a new chemotherapy this next Monday. This is going to be my 4th time taking chemotherapy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; And God is still existing for me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2lF2cvtycq8/TZa-49Ql-0I/AAAAAAAAD2I/-Dmv3iyUwbE/s1600/IMG_1104.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2lF2cvtycq8/TZa-49Ql-0I/AAAAAAAAD2I/-Dmv3iyUwbE/s320/IMG_1104.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590865873153162050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta semana me dieron los resultados de la ultima tomografia que me hicieron y no fue para nada buena. El cancer se fue a otras partes del cuerpo, esta en los nodulos limfaticos en la parte del pecho y un tumor arriba de uno de los riniones. Ya estaba tan cerca de terminar con los tumores que tengo en el higado y me aparece estoen otras partes. Asi que empiezo con una nueva quimioterapia este proximo Lunes. Va a ser la cuarta vez que me dan quimioterapia, sera por 6 meses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Y Dios sigue existiendo para mi&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-9082801160954268444?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/9082801160954268444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=9082801160954268444' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/9082801160954268444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/9082801160954268444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/03/latest-news-ultimas-noticias.html' title='Latest news. Ultimas noticias'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2lF2cvtycq8/TZa-49Ql-0I/AAAAAAAAD2I/-Dmv3iyUwbE/s72-c/IMG_1104.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1727658055137800868</id><published>2011-03-20T12:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-20T12:55:00.556-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Living life. Viviendo la vida</title><content type='html'>Acá estoy nuevamente, para poner al día mi Blog con lo que va sucediendo con mi lucha contra esta enfermedad de cancer.&lt;br /&gt;Si es la primera vez que lees mi Blog, el tipo de cancer que tengo se llama gastro esófago y ya van casi 4 años desde que lo descubrieron.&lt;br /&gt;Solo ahora me están dando una droga cada 3 semanas que se llama Herceptin y era una de las 3 que me daban el año pasado con quimioterapia.  Antes de ayer me hicieron una tomografia y este Lunes me dan los resultados, un día importantísimo para mi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R-huNpVAgY0/TYZaVFRAW7I/AAAAAAAAD2A/VUcoqXllYNk/s1600/img_5391.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R-huNpVAgY0/TYZaVFRAW7I/AAAAAAAAD2A/VUcoqXllYNk/s320/img_5391.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586251706036935602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vengo bastante activo ultimamente, haciendo mucho deporte en el agua.  Acabo de de hacer un cambio en mi dieta de reducir lo mas que pueda el consumo de carbohidratos para evitar tanta glucosa en mi cuerpo ya que las células cancerigenas se alimentan exclusivamente de glucosa, por eso no como nada azúcar, ni miel y evito lo mas que pueda frutas. Esta dieta de no consumir azúcar&lt;br /&gt;la vengo haciendo desde que me diagnosticaron este cancer. Por eso si alguien tiene algún familiar, amigo o conocido que tenga cualquier tipo de cancer, por favor haganle llegar&lt;br /&gt;esta información sobre el azúcar que a la mayoría no se les informa nada.  El cortar con el suministro de azúcar es una gran forma de debilitar a las células cancerigenas y así tener mas posibilidades de curarse o vivir mucho mas tiempo y el tratamiento convencional se hace mucho mas efectivo de esta manera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hasta la próxima&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico   (La foto es con mi hermano hace un par de semanas atras)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here I am again, to update my Blog with what is going on with my fight against this disease of cancer.&lt;br /&gt;If this is the first time you read my Blog, the type of cancer that I have is called gastro esophageal and it has been almost 4 years since it was discovered.&lt;br /&gt;Now I am getting only one drug every 3 weeks called Herceptin that it was one of the 3 drugs I was getting last year with chemotherapy.&lt;br /&gt;This last week I had a Pet-Ct scan and tomorrow Monday I am getting the results of it, a very important day for me.&lt;br /&gt;I've been very active lately, especially doing sports in the water. I have made a big change in my diet reducing the intake of carbohydrates to avoid too much glucose in my blood since the cancer cells feed exclusively with glucose. That is why I avoid any sugars,  honey and eat very little fruit. I've been doing this diet of not consuming sugars since I was diagnosed with this cancer.&lt;br /&gt;If anyone has a relative or friend or someone they know who has any type of cancer, please help to inform them of the need to reduce sugars in their diet.&lt;br /&gt;Cutting out the intake of sugar is an important way to  weaken the cancer cells and thus have a  more possibilies of being cured or at least live a lot longer and know for sure that the conventional treatment is even more effective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For all my Japanese friends, I am so sorry for what has happened in your country. I know it could be hard to believe in God in these situations, but  He still exists and we have to believe we can get stronger in these situations.  Never give up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until the next one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico  (The Picture is with my brother around 2 weeks ago)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1727658055137800868?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1727658055137800868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1727658055137800868' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1727658055137800868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1727658055137800868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/03/living-life-viviendo-la-vida.html' title='Living life. Viviendo la vida'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R-huNpVAgY0/TYZaVFRAW7I/AAAAAAAAD2A/VUcoqXllYNk/s72-c/img_5391.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-9156375101538521416</id><published>2011-02-01T20:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-02T07:49:51.672-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A new year with more hope. Un año nuevo con mas esperanza.</title><content type='html'>I begin this new Post especially for you.&lt;br /&gt; You know the disease I have and I want you to know that there are a lot of people in this world that have the same disease as me. And there are a lot more that are facing other types of cancer and other illnesses that are threatening their lives as well, from kids to elderly people.&lt;br /&gt; The statistics of all types of cancer are growing everyday.&lt;br /&gt; This is a great opportunity in your life to make up your conscience of what is really going on so close to you that you can not see it clearly because your daily life doesn't allow you.  It happened the same to me when my cancer wasn't discovered yet.&lt;br /&gt; I tell you this for you to appreciate and value your health and to be very grateful for it.&lt;br /&gt; But don't take it for granted. I recommend you to take advantage of this great opportunity you have in your life today to learn to take care of your health better and better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TUjj0ae927I/AAAAAAAAD1c/7g8IS5-i1EI/s1600/IMG_5044.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TUjj0ae927I/AAAAAAAAD1c/7g8IS5-i1EI/s320/IMG_5044.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568951428845525938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; One of the main threats to our health today is not  knowing how to feed ourselves right with healthy foods. A change we can make ourselves.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Last week I started with radiation to the  liver to stop the growth of the other 2 smaller tumors and to hopefully shrink them.&lt;br /&gt; In total I have 3 tumors in the liver, one around 10cm in diameter and the other 2 are about 2cm and 3 cm.&lt;br /&gt; You'll be amazed if you see how this new procedure with radiation works. You can type in youtube.com "cyberknife" and you have videos there. This is the latest and most advanced radiation today.&lt;br /&gt; More than a month ago I had my last intervention in the liver where they only treated  the biggest tumor. This procedure is called chemoembolization and it can help to shrink it. So far it is still the same size but it killed most of it.&lt;br /&gt; Two weeks ago I had a new scan and it showed there is no cancer in the rest of my body, only the 3 tumors in the liver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I just turned 41 years old and I have already lived 3 and a half years fighting this cancer. For every new day of life I thank  God so much for it and I try to enjoy the most I can every second that I spend with my kids and my wife that are my light, they are the main reason why I want to keep living for so many more years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until the next post.  God exists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico   (First picture is with my dad a month ago and the second picture is with my two kids 2 weeks ago) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TUjkSgkeyoI/AAAAAAAAD1k/HMOYoCYTIkg/s1600/IMG_5054.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TUjkSgkeyoI/AAAAAAAAD1k/HMOYoCYTIkg/s320/IMG_5054.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568951945875344002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SPANISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Comienzo este nuevo Post especialmente para voz que me estas leyendo.&lt;br /&gt; Sabes la enfermedad que tengo y quiero que sepas que hay muchisimas personas en este mundo que tienen la misma enfermedad que yo y muchisimas mas que están atravesando otros tipos de cánceres y otras enfermedades que amenazan también con sus vidas, desde niños hasta ancianos.&lt;br /&gt; Las estadísticas de cánceres por ejemplo, crecen día a día.&lt;br /&gt; Esta es una gran oportunidad en tu vida de hacer conciencia de lo que realmente esta pasando muy cerca tuyo que no lo podes ver claramente porque tu vida cotidiana  no te lo permite. A mi me pasaba lo mismo cuando todavía no se había descubierto mi cancer.&lt;br /&gt; Te digo esto para que aprecies y valores mas que nunca tu propia salud y estés muy agradecido de ella.&lt;br /&gt; Pero no subestimes tu salud. Te aconsejo que aproveches esta gran oportunidad que tenes hoy en tu vida de aprender a cuidar tu salud mejor y mejor. &lt;br /&gt; Sabe bien que una de las principales amenazas a nuestra salud es el no tener el conocimiento correcto de como alimentarnos bien con comidas sanas. Un cambio que podemos hacer nosotros mismos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; La semana pasada me comenzaron a hacer radiación en el higado  para frenar el crecimiento de los otros dos tumores mas pequeños  y achicarlos. En total tengo 3 tumores en el hígado, uno de alrededor de 10 cm de diámetro y los otros dos 2cm y 3 cm. Si quieren ver y asombrarse de esto que me están haciendo con radiación, busquen en youtube.com "Cyberknife", es lo mas avanzado que hay en radiación.&lt;br /&gt; Hace mas de un mes que me hicieron la ultima cirujía en el hígado para parar el crecimiento del tumor mas grande y achicarlo. Al que le interese ver como es esta intervención que me hicieron, se llama "Chemoembolization" o en español "quimoembolizacion".&lt;br /&gt; Me hicieron una tomografía hace dos semanas atrás y en el resto del cuerpo no aparece nada de cancer, solo los 3 tumores que tengo en el hígado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Acabo de cumplir 41 años y ya llevo 3 años y medio combatiendo este cancer. Cada día nuevo de vida se lo agradezco tanto a Dios y trato de disfrutar lo mas que puedo cada segundo que estoy con mis hijos y mi esposa que son mi luz, son la razón principal por la cual quiero seguir viviendo muchisimos años mas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hasta la próxima.  Dios existe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico    (la primera foto es con mi papa hace un mes atras y la otra foto es como mis dos hijos hace dos semanas)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-9156375101538521416?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/9156375101538521416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=9156375101538521416' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/9156375101538521416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/9156375101538521416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-year-with-more-hope-un-ano-nuevo.html' title='A new year with more hope. Un año nuevo con mas esperanza.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TUjj0ae927I/AAAAAAAAD1c/7g8IS5-i1EI/s72-c/IMG_5044.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1939258288372022715</id><published>2010-12-20T15:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-28T12:12:22.942-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas. Feliz Navidad</title><content type='html'>On Wednesday I had the second surgery on my liver and everything went well. Now I am at home recovering with severe pain especially in the liver. &lt;br /&gt;I am taking strong pain pills to calm down the pain but sometimes it doesn't slow it down all the way.&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday at 5 in the morning my wife had to take me to the Emergency Room because I was in so much pain and the pills didn't do anything and I couldn't take it. It ended up being a  constipation, a consequence of having this procedure and taking narcotics for pain relief which paralyzes  the  intestine. They took really good care of me. Now I am home feeling better and resting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost four years ago my future wasn't so promising. And here I am alive, so close to spend my fourth Christmas since I was diagnosed with this disease.&lt;br /&gt;Every Christmas that keeps passing, I celebrate with so much joy the birth of Jesuscrist.&lt;br /&gt;  With respect for other religions, with faith I believe that through Jesuscrist I have got to know a God that really exists and has made my life better. For this reason I always end my posts writing with conviction that God exists. &lt;br /&gt;Everyday I feel that God fills my heart with a lot of peace, happiness and hope and gives me stregth to fight this desease. &lt;br /&gt;I am so grateful with him for all the blessings he has given me in my life and he continues doing it and I thank him so much for being alive today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and hope you all a New Year full of love and good health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico                &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; (I recommend to watch the Food Inc movie, on the right side you'll see the list of documentaries, just click on Food Inc and you can watch it)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Este Miércoles pasado me hicieron nuevamente la cirujía en mi hígado, la misma que me habían hecho hace mas de dos meses y todo salio bien.  Ahora me estoy recuperando&lt;br /&gt;en mi casa con dolores fuertes especialmente en el hígado que lo calmo con remedios para el dolor. &lt;br /&gt; Ayer a las 5 de la mañana mi esposa me tuvo que llevar al Hospital porque estaba con muchisimo dolor en la zona del abdomen y los remedios no me calmaban el dolor y llegue a un punto que no lo podía tolerar mas. En el Hospital se comprobó que era una constipacion consecuencia de la anestesia general y de tomar narcóticos para aliviar el dolor que paralizan el movimiento intestinal y mas que esta el higado inflamado. Ahora estoy en en mi casa sintiéndome mucho mejor y descansando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hace cuatro años mi pronostico de vida no era muy prometedor y acá estoy vivo, muy cerca de pasar mi cuarta Navidad desde que me diagnosticaron con esta enfermedad. &lt;br /&gt; Cada Navidad que sigue pasando la celebro con muchisima alegría porque festejo el nacimiento de Jesucristo. &lt;br /&gt; Con respeto a otras religiones, con Fe creo que a través de Jesucristo he llegado a conocer a un Dios que realmente existe y que me ha ayudado a que mi vida sea mejor. Por esta razón siempre termino escribiendo con convicción al final de cada post que "Dios existe". &lt;br /&gt; Cada día siento que Dios llena mi corazón con mucha paz,felicidad y esperanza y me da fuerza para seguir luchando esta enfermedad. &lt;br /&gt;Estoy muy agradecido con El por todas las bendiciones que me ha dado en mi vida y continua haciéndolo y le agradezco por esta vivo hoy. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Espero que tengan todos una hermosisima Navidad y que tengan un Año Nuevo lleno de amor y buena salud. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les recomiendo que vean la pelicula Food Inc, en la columna de la derecha donde dice documentales que recomiendo ver, clickeando sobre Food Inc pueden verla con subtitulos en espaniol )&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1939258288372022715?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1939258288372022715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1939258288372022715' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1939258288372022715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1939258288372022715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/12/merry-christmas-feliz-navidad.html' title='Merry Christmas. Feliz Navidad'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-2581140874553036714</id><published>2010-12-05T22:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T13:36:24.326-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Muy feliz. So happy</title><content type='html'>Ya paso mas de un mes y medio desde que me hicieron la cirugía y me termine de recuperar.  Ya me siento normal y creo que lo mejor que me sentí en todo el año ya que mi doctor me paro con la quimioterapia para darle un descanso a mi cuerpo y que se limpie de las drogas. Me empezó a crecer de nuevo todo el pelo en mi cuerpo y me hace muy bien ver mi cara normal otra vez ya que me crecieron las cejas, las pestañas, el pelo, los bigotes y la barba.&lt;br /&gt; Me hicieron una resonancia magnética hace dos  semanas para ver que efecto había hecho la cirugía y se ve bien claro que mas del 50% del tumor grande esta muerto.&lt;br /&gt; Ahora me van a hacer otra cirugía el 15 de este mes igual que la anterior para hacer desaparecer el resto del tumor que esta vivo.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TPyHYwRfx4I/AAAAAAAAD1Q/ZzIg77sR6Yw/s1600/Familia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TPyHYwRfx4I/AAAAAAAAD1Q/ZzIg77sR6Yw/s320/Familia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547457700358506370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost two months has passed since I had the procedure in my liver. I have recovered completly and I am feeling normal. I believe I am feeling the best since this year started because my doctor gave me a break with the chemotherapy to give my body a rest and to clean some of the toxins from my body. My hair started growing back and it makes me feel so good to see my face with eye brows again and  beard and mustache.&lt;br /&gt;I had an MRI two weeks ago to check the big tumor after the first procedure and it showed very clear that more than 50% of the tumor  is dead.&lt;br /&gt;I am going to have the same procedure again the 15th of this month. The goal is to kill the rest of the live tumor. I will keep you updated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-2581140874553036714?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/2581140874553036714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=2581140874553036714' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2581140874553036714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2581140874553036714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/12/ya-paso-mas-de-un-mes-y-medio-desde-que.html' title='Muy feliz. So happy'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TPyHYwRfx4I/AAAAAAAAD1Q/ZzIg77sR6Yw/s72-c/Familia.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-6657983231161047317</id><published>2010-10-18T15:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-19T08:17:03.672-07:00</updated><title type='text'>After the procedure. Despues de la intervencion</title><content type='html'>ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had the  procedure done this week  which I talked about in my last post. Everything went very well. I've been in a lot of pain since then but I've been taking pain pills.&lt;br /&gt;In 3 more weeks I am going to have a CT Scan to see how this procedure worked on the big tumor.&lt;br /&gt;You might see more written in spanish but I am translating what i wrote in english on the last post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you God for this day of life&lt;br /&gt; God exists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hola a todos, acá estoy, VIVO !&lt;br /&gt;Yo estoy bien y mi familia también. Tuve que  esperar mas de un mes para que mi seguro autorizara la intervención que me querían hacer.&lt;br /&gt;Me la hicieron hace menos de dos semanas. Todo salio bien. Estuve con mucho dolor pero lo pude controlar con pastillas. Es la primera vez en mi vida que tomo pastillas para el dolor. &lt;br /&gt;En 3 semanas mas me van a hacer una tomografia para ver que efecto hizo esto en el tumor grande.&lt;br /&gt;Esto que me hicieron es para frenar el crecimiento del tumor grande y poder achicarlo.&lt;br /&gt;La ultima biopsia que me habían hecho no hace mucho comprobó que este tumor grande era el mismo cancer que tengo desde que empecé el primer día que se había descubierto en el esófago.&lt;br /&gt;Ahora estoy pasando por un descanso con la quimioterapia, supuestamente por unos 3 meses, ya me ira diciendo mi doctor. Fueron 6 meses de quimioterapia que es el tiempo que había planeado mi doctor, mas no quería porque no considera que es bueno hacerlo por mas tiempo que este,&lt;br /&gt;especialmente para el cuerpo así se puede recuperar y tomar mas fuerzas y que se limpie de esta drogas toxicas.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ahora estoy caminando solamente pero donde empiece a sentirme mejor y sin dolor en la zona del tumor donde me hicieron esto, voy a volver a la natación que es mi ejercicio principal ahora.&lt;br /&gt;Algo que les quiero expresar a todos, es que si yo puedo nadar y hacer otros deportes como surf y windsurf, bicicleta, trotar, con quimioterapia fuerte adentro de mi cuerpo, ustedes pueden hacer mas que yo !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hasta la próxima.  Dios existe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-6657983231161047317?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/6657983231161047317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=6657983231161047317' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6657983231161047317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6657983231161047317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/10/after-procedure-despues-de-la.html' title='After the procedure. Despues de la intervencion'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-3467584828483952727</id><published>2010-10-06T21:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-06T21:45:39.851-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hope growing. Esperanza creciendo.</title><content type='html'>Hello everyone, here I am, ALIVE ! Thank God for this new day.&lt;br /&gt;I am doing good and my family too. My insurance just approved an important procedure that I will have done this week. This procedure should help to stop the growth of the biggest tumor I have in my liver.&lt;br /&gt;The last biopsy I had proved that the big tumor is the same cancer as the other tumors.&lt;br /&gt;I had my last cycle of chemotherapy last week after 6 months of treatment. I am going to have a break for  3 months to recover from the chemo drugs. &lt;br /&gt;My main work out now is swimming that I am doing every week in the ocean or in my daughter's school swimming pool that is  a salt water pool. I avoid pools treated with chlorine.&lt;br /&gt;What I would like to express to you all is , with chemotherapy, if I can swim and do other sports like surf and windsurf, biking and running, you can do more than me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TK1QQnqX10I/AAAAAAAAD1E/Lak772OEW6k/s1600/img_4382.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TK1QQnqX10I/AAAAAAAAD1E/Lak772OEW6k/s320/img_4382.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525160564308301634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eat well, give priority to vegetables where there is more energy for your good cells. Avoid bad sugars, it is only going to make you gain weight with fat.  White sugar, brown sugar, high fructose syrup are bad. Good sugars are from the natural sources. Agave, xilitol, stevia, good honey, evaporated cane juice, these are good sweeteners. Know that all the popular sodas today are made with high fructose corn syrup.  Also avoid processed foods, white flour is the most used today. Try to eat the most organic food you can.&lt;br /&gt;Whoever wants to know how to eat healthier, loose weight and have more energy, you can write me to fedepecora@gmail.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until the next one. God is real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-3467584828483952727?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/3467584828483952727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=3467584828483952727' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/3467584828483952727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/3467584828483952727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/10/hope-growing-esperanza-creciendo.html' title='Hope growing. Esperanza creciendo.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TK1QQnqX10I/AAAAAAAAD1E/Lak772OEW6k/s72-c/img_4382.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4800043311307665812</id><published>2010-09-05T17:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-09T21:25:50.931-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Despues de la biopsia. After the biopsy.</title><content type='html'>Hola, este Lunes y Martes pasado me dieron mas quimioterapia, ahora entre 3 semanas mas me dan la ultima quimioterapia y después me darían un descando de al menos 3 meses como me dijo mi doctor para recuperarme y limpiar las drogas de mi cuerpo.&lt;br /&gt; También me dieron esta semana el resultado de la ultima tomografía y no fue muy alentador ya que el tumor grande sigue creciendo y esta casi de 9 centímetros de diámetro.&lt;br /&gt;Los otros tumores que me quedan  se siguen achicando, ya están por debajo del centímetro de tamaño y muchos desaparecieron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TIQxHqL1LhI/AAAAAAAAD0s/RfFh-MH2hYM/s1600/img_4335.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TIQxHqL1LhI/AAAAAAAAD0s/RfFh-MH2hYM/s320/img_4335.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513585851461086738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; El problema es el tumor grande abarca el 90 % de mi cancer y hay que pararlo.&lt;br /&gt; Este Jueves me hicieron una biopsia en el higado del tumor mas grande para comprobar de que se trata, porque esta creciendo cuando lo otros se están achicando. Mi doctor ya me había explicado hace tiempo que el cancer se mueve comunmente en una sola dirección, o se va achicando todo o crece todo. En mi caso es muy raro lo que esta pasando y por eso se me hizo una biopsia.&lt;br /&gt;Podría llegar a ser que este tumor grande fuese un cancer diferente a el de los otros tumores. O algo diferente a cancer, ya veremos cuando hable este Martes que viene con mi doctor y me diga como fue el resultado de esta biopsia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TIQxm5pITvI/AAAAAAAAD00/QPwvlrTsvQs/s1600/img_4280.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TIQxm5pITvI/AAAAAAAAD00/QPwvlrTsvQs/s320/img_4280.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513586388186451698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Ahora estoy esperando la autorización de mi seguro medico para que me hagan una intervención que se llama en ingles "chemoembolitazion", que se haría para achicar lo mas que se pueda el tumor mas grande.&lt;br /&gt; Esta intervención consiste en entrar por la vena hepatica hasta llegar al hígado, encontrar las venas que alimentan con sangre a este tumor grande y se le inyecta una dosis de quimioterapia y esta a la vez corta el pase de sangre al tumor y lo sofocaria.  Hay dos venas que alimentan con sangre al hígado, la hepática y la otra no me acuerdo el nombre. La hepática es la única que le lleva sangre a los tumores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Ayer Sábado desde muy temprano me sentí muy recuperado de la biopsia y la quimioterapia de esta semana, entonces agarre mi bicicleta y me fui a nadar a la pileta del colegio de mi hija que queda acá a unas cuadras de mi casa. Y a la tarde nos fuimos con mi esposa y mis hijos a surfear a una playa que esta a una hora al sur de donde vivimos. Creo que mas no lo pude haber disfrutado y nos vimos un atardecer increíble y después hicimos un fogón con amigos y sus chicos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para los que me preguntaron, en la carrera de windsurf que competí en Agosto quede 6to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Mi fe sigue siempre fuerte, no pierdo nunca las esperanzas, enfoco en el presente y doy las gracias por hoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Dios es real.  Hasta la proxima. Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week I had another round of chemotherapy and in three weeks they will give me the last round and then a break for 3 months. My doctor wants me to recuperate and cleanse the drugs from my body. I also received the results of the latest scan and it wasn't very positive. The biggest tumor continues to grow and is now almost 9 cm in diameter. The other tumors are shrinking or have disappeared. The problem is the big tumor which is about 90% of my total cancer and we need to stop it. This Thursday I had a biopsy in my liver on the biggest tumor to see exactly what it is and how to treat it because it is growing while the other are shrinking. My doctor has explained that cancer usually moves in one direction, either it is all shrinking or stable or it is growing. In my case it is strange that some are shrinking while the other one is growing. It could be that the big tumor is a different type of cancer that would need different drugs to treat it. I have an appointment on Tuesday and I should get the result of the biopsy then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TIXMR0_F1LI/AAAAAAAAD08/7OlPllUap90/s1600/img_4257.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TIXMR0_F1LI/AAAAAAAAD08/7OlPllUap90/s320/img_4257.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514037925438149810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Now I'm waiting for an authorization from my insurance to have a procedure that is called chemoembolization that would help shrink the biggest tumor. This treatment is administered to patients via a catheter which is guided to the hepatic artery within the liver. The primary goal is to embolize the tumor or to reduce or cut off its blood supply, to control its growth and spread. They also inject a strong dose of chemotherapy while also cutting the blood supply to the tumor.&lt;br /&gt;    Yesterday, Saturday from early in the morning I felt recovered from the biopsy and the chemo from this week. I got on my bike and went to swim at my daughters school which a few blocks away. And in the afternoon I went with my wife and kids to surf at a beach that is about an hour to the south. I couldn't have enjoyed it more! We watched an incredible sunset and made a fire with our friends and their kids.&lt;br /&gt;   My faith continues to be strong, I don't loose hope, I focus on the present and give thanks for today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Until the next one. Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4800043311307665812?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4800043311307665812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4800043311307665812' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4800043311307665812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4800043311307665812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/09/despues-de-la-biopsia-after-biopsy.html' title='Despues de la biopsia. After the biopsy.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TIQxHqL1LhI/AAAAAAAAD0s/RfFh-MH2hYM/s72-c/img_4335.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1702288077375329381</id><published>2010-07-20T22:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-27T11:55:38.611-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Buenos resultados otra vez. Good results again</title><content type='html'>Ayer fue un muy buen dia para mi y mi esposa después que mi doctor nos dijera que los resultados de la tomografía del Lunes pasado eran muy buenos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TEaXliAXmHI/AAAAAAAADzk/evHyoBakkFA/s1600/mateo3"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TEaXliAXmHI/AAAAAAAADzk/evHyoBakkFA/s320/mateo3" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496247066291574898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Todos los tumores siguen muriéndose cada vez mas por dentro y los mas chicos se empezaron a achicar todos. El resto del cuerpo esta bien y en el hígado no hay tumores nuevos.&lt;br /&gt; Entre ayer y hoy me hicieron toda la quimioterapia. Ahora estoy bien, me sentí muy tirado hoy pero después de una buena siesta me sentí mucho mejor.&lt;br /&gt; Mañana tengo que ir una vez más a que me den una inyección para levantar las células blancas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; A los que tengan amalgamas en la boca les recomiendo que se las cambien por composite y van a sentir un gran cambio en su energía al sacarse una tremenda toxina de mercurio que esta constante en todo el organismo. Eso si, no se pueden sacar cuando cualquier odontólogo, hay que saber hacerlo bien para no aspirar o tragar mercurio cuando se esta haciendo este procedimiento.&lt;br /&gt; A los que tienen chicos, les recomiendo que no usen pasta dental con fluor que es una toxina terrible para el organismo y los chicos no la pueden escupir toda, algo siempre se tragan. Se pueden conseguir pastas dentales para niños sin fluor y también para adultos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Para mis compatriotas argentinos, a los que toman mate, les aconsejo que averiguen bien lo que están haciendo con las plantaciones de mate las cuales proveen yerba a las marcas principales. Se están usando muchisimos pesticidas y fertilizantes sintéticos. Ya hay marcas que lo están haciendo orgánicamente, es decir que no utilizan pesticidas químicos y fertilizantes artificiales. Cuando uno toma mate de estas marcas no orgánicas, las toxinas de los pesticidas van al organismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Reciclen.  Hagan que su pueblo, ciudad, recicle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Dios existe. Hasta la próxima. Federico &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(En las fotos mi hija Lucia y mi hijo Mateo ) &lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Yesterday was a very good day for me and my wife. My doctor told us that the results of my CT scan from last Monday were really good.&lt;br /&gt; All the tumors continue dying even more and the smallest ones started to decrease in size. The rest of my body looks clear of cancer and&lt;br /&gt;the liver doesn't show any new tumors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TEaXXXlI-SI/AAAAAAAADzc/6gRiFZZPsdo/s1600/lu"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TEaXXXlI-SI/AAAAAAAADzc/6gRiFZZPsdo/s320/lu" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496246822974847266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Between yesterday and today I had more chemotherapy. Now I am feeling good, I felt very tired today but after a good nap I am feeling much better.&lt;br /&gt; Tomorrow I have to go again to my doctor's office to get a shot to raise the white cells.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; If you have amalgams in your mouth, I recommend you to switch them for composite and you'll feel a big change in your energy after taking this tremendous toxin of mercury out of your body.  But remember, it can not be done by any dentist, it has to be someone who really knows  how to do it right to avoid breathing the gases of the mercury and to avoid swallowing pieces of amalgam.&lt;br /&gt;Whoever has kids, I recommend you to don't use tooth paste with fluoride which is a terrible toxin for the organism. The kids can not spit it all out, they always swallow some.&lt;br /&gt; There are brands which don't have fluoride in their ingredients and there are also some for adults, much safer for us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Recycle. If your town or city doesn't do it, somehow try to make it happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; God exists. Until the next one. Federico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(In the pictures my daughter Lucia and my son Mateo )&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1702288077375329381?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1702288077375329381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1702288077375329381' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1702288077375329381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1702288077375329381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/07/buenos-resultados-otra-vez-good-results.html' title='Buenos resultados otra vez. Good results again'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/TEaXliAXmHI/AAAAAAAADzk/evHyoBakkFA/s72-c/mateo3' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-2671115404963005204</id><published>2010-06-30T13:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T22:15:44.420-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tumores muriendose. Tumors dying.</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;ENGLISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Here is the latest news. My last ct scan showed that my biggest tumor is dying from the inside out and the rest seem to be dying as well. The biggest tumor grew a little bit but my doctor explained that it is inflammation from the dying process.&lt;br /&gt; The biggest tumor is 6 cm and 3.6 cm is dead tumor. The next ct scan that is scheduled in two weeks should show continued regression in all tumors. &lt;br /&gt; Yesterday and today I had my 4th infusion on this new protocol. I'm doing ok, feeling strong but tired throughout the day but I can handle it. I try to take a nap each day which helps my body to recuperate but it's not easy with my young kids and I always have something to do. &lt;br /&gt; I'm preparing for a windsurf competition that will be in the beginning of August. Last year I raced and came in 5th place and this year my goal is to be on the podium. &lt;br /&gt; Three weeks ago I raced 7 kilometers in a paddle board competition. I was about in the middle at the finish. &lt;br /&gt; I keep on fighting, my hair hasn't grown back and neither has my beard. I miss my hair but it doesn't bother me to be without hair. &lt;br /&gt; My advice that I would like to give you is to open your eyes and really look at the food that you are buying. Think about how it is made, look at the ingredients, learn about the ingredients, if they are healthy or not, if they are toxic or not, if they have nutrients and if they have processed ingredients. &lt;br /&gt; Also look at the products you are using in your house to cook with and clean with. Check to make sure they are non-toxic. Check your house for Air fresheners, chemical products for cleaning, bug sprays, and remember that if you breath it, it goes straight to your blood system. Wash your fruits and vegetable with a veggie wash that removes toxic chemicals and insecticides and know that if you use dish detergent to clean them, you can not completely remove the toxic detergent with water from the fruits. Teflon is totally toxic. Microwaves kill the nutrients in the food and it changes the molecular structure of the liquids. Baking soda and vinegar are excellent, non-toxic  cleaners and are natural. You can also check on the internet to find out about all you can use them for.  &lt;br /&gt;  The sun has the best vitamin to support the inmune system, the vitamin D and is  it's free! So you know, more activities under the sun. &lt;br /&gt; Being physically active helps remove toxins from the body that are stuck between the cells.  Less TV, less computer and more time outside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists. Live in the present with appreciation for life. Tomorrow is today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until next time, Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les paso las ultimas noticias. Mi ultima tomografía mostro que el tumor mas grande se empezó a morir de adentro hacia afuera y el resto de los tumores mas chicos se supone que también. El tumor mas grande crecio un poquito mas en tamaño pero mi doctor me explico que esta inflamado por estar muriendose por dentro. El tumor mas grande mide 6 centímetros y esta 3.6 centímetros muerto por dentro. La próxima tomografía me la hacen en dos semanas y segun mi doctor se veria reducimiento en todos los tumores. &lt;br /&gt;Ayer y antes de ayer me hicieron la cuarta infiltración de quimioterapia de este nuevo tratamiento. &lt;br /&gt;Me vengo sintiendo bien, pero me canso mucho en diferentes partes del día pero lo puedo llevar bien igual. Trato de dormir siestas para recuperar mis energias pero no es fácil con mis hijos alrededor y siempre tengo algo para hacer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora me estoy preparando para una competencia de carrera de windsurf que va a ser la primer semana de Agosto. El año pasado la corrí y quede 5to y este año  mi meta es legar a estar en el podio. &lt;br /&gt;Hace unas 3 semanas atrás me corrí una carrera en el mar de 7 kilómetros en stand up paddle, quede mas o menos en la mitad del pelotón. &lt;br /&gt;Sigo pelado y no me crece nada el pelo y la barba tampoco. Extraño mi pelo pero no me hago problema de estar así pelado. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Un consejo que les quiero dejar acá, abran bien los ojos con la comida que compran, piensen con que esta hecho, miren los ingredientes, interiorisence por aprender que son esos ingredientes y si son sanos, si son tóxicos, si tienen nutrientes, si tienen ingredientes procesados. &lt;br /&gt;También  lo que uno utiliza en el hogar para cocinar, para limpiar, fijense si no es toxico lo que están utilizando. Los desodorantes de ambiente, los productos químicos para limpiar, insecticidas, sepan que lo que huelen esta en la sangre. Por ejemplo si lavan las frutas y las verduras con detergente no se lo pueden sacar completamente con agua el detergente químico. El teflón es totalmente toxico. El microondas mata los nutrientes de las comidas y le cambia la molécula a los líquidos. &lt;br /&gt;El bicarbonato de sodio y el vinagre blanco son excelentes para limpiar y son naturales. En internet pueden averiguar para todo lo que los pueden utilizar. &lt;br /&gt;Reciclen.&lt;br /&gt;El sol tiene la mejor vitamina para el sistema inmunologico, la D, y es gratis, ya saben, a hacer actividades al sol. &lt;br /&gt;El movimiento físico ayuda a que el cuerpo se deshaga de toxinas que están estancadas entre las células. Menos television, menos computadora, mas ejercicio físico. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe. A vivir el presente con gran apreciación. Mañana es ahora. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hasta la próxima. Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-2671115404963005204?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/2671115404963005204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=2671115404963005204' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2671115404963005204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2671115404963005204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/06/english-here-is-latest-news.html' title='Tumores muriendose. Tumors dying.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1393367958793434005</id><published>2010-05-19T08:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T17:39:49.924-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Con la Esperanza alta.  High Hope</title><content type='html'>Due to the growth of tumors that I have in the liver, I had to start with a new treatment of chemotherapy. The biggest tumor now measures 5.5 cm.&lt;br /&gt;My doctor preferred to do a direct treatment to the liver instead of doing chemotherapy but my insurance would not authorize it. The tumors were growing fast and we couldn't wait any longer.&lt;br /&gt;I am no longer being treated at The City of Hope hospital. I am in a more private place now. My new oncologist works at his own office with his own staff of nurses. I get everything done there, labs, chemo, check ups. I feel much better with this change, my doctor is always close to me during my treatments and monitoring everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S_t0T7PmBgI/AAAAAAAADy4/GFr9EH0v3hY/s1600/Papi+y+Mate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S_t0T7PmBgI/AAAAAAAADy4/GFr9EH0v3hY/s320/Papi+y+Mate.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475097657668404738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    It's been one week since I started with my new treatment. It was five tough days with side effects in my whole body. My new treatment consists of two strong drugs and a third drug that is a target therapy that attacks a specific protein in the cells of the tumors. It doesn't have strong side effects like the other ones. I've experienced a lot of pain in my joints and muscles, strong stabbing pains in my chest and back and extreme fatigue in my whole body. Now I've recovered and everyday I'm feeling better, until the next one.&lt;br /&gt;    Be aware that early detection of cancer helps to save lives. In my case it was found very late.  If anyone has problems with acid reflux causing pain in the chest or you feel that food is not passing through good and getting stuck, these are the warning signs to see a doctor for some tests. Don't ignore it. An endoscopy if the most precise exam to detect this kind of cancer. I had a barium swallow test done a few months before I was diagnosed and the cancer was not detected with this test.&lt;br /&gt;     Be prudent, educating ourselves about the various forms of prevention. If I would have known that these symptoms would've been causing the growth of a tumor I would have seen a doctor sooner.My cancer was misdiagnosed for 6 months as acid reflux. I was given medicine for GERD even though I kept on telling them my only symptoms were food getting stuck and the feeling that food was rubbing in my chest. I  saw four different doctors before the endoscopy was ordered and I was the one who asked for an appointment with the gastroenterologist. Doctors today don't look at the cause, instead they treat the symptoms. My cancer could have been discovered sooner at a lower stage and with more possibilities to cure. Instead it was stage 4 with metastasis to the liver, lungs and many lymph nodes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   I keep on going with high hope, enjoying life everyday especially with  my family who are my happiness. And I'm thanking God everyday for each new day of life.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;God is real. Federico (Picture with my son more than a week ago)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debido a que los tumores que tengo en el  hígado siguieron creciendo, &lt;br /&gt; el mas grande esta de 5.5cm,  empecé hace 4 semanas con  un nuevo tratamiento de quimioterapia, el tercero. Mi doctor quería hacerme un tratamiento directo a mi hígado en vez de hacerme quimioterapia pero estuvimos esperando mucho para que mi seguro medico lo autorizara. Los tumores están creciendo rápido y no se podía esperar mas.&lt;br /&gt;Ahora estoy en un nuevo lugar, mas privado,  ya no estoy mas en el hospital City of Hope. El oncologo que tengo ahora trabaja en su propio consultorio con su equipo de 4 personas mas y me hacen las infiltraciones de quimioterapia ahi mismo. Me siento mucho mejor con este cambio, mi doctor esta siempre cerca mio durante toda la infiltracion de las drogas y estoy mejor controlado asi. &lt;br /&gt; Hace una semana me pusieron nuevamente la quimioterpia. Estuve 5 dias  sintiendo muy fuerte la quimioterapia en todo mi cuerpo.  &lt;br /&gt; Mi nueva quimioterapia consiste en dos drogas y también me dan una tercer droga que no es quimioterapia y que va directamente al hígado a atacar solamente los tumores y esta no tiene efectos secundarios fuertes como las otras dos.&lt;br /&gt; Tuve una semana de fuertes efectos con las otras dos drogas, dolores  en las articulaciones y en los músculos, puntadas fuertes en el pecho y en la espalda y un cansancio tremendo que sentia que me pesaba todo el cuerpo. Ahora estoy mejor, los efectos fuertes ya se me fueron y cada dia me voy sintiendo mejor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Sepan bien que una detección temprana del cancer ayuda a salvar vidas.  En el caso de mi cancer, la prevencion casi no existe.&lt;br /&gt;Si alguien tiene problemas de acides estomacal donde sienta dolor en el pecho o sienta que la comida medio que se le traba en el esofago o siente que la comida le raspa en la zona del esofago, estas son  las seniales principales para hacerse un estudio. No se dejen estar, una endoscopia es el estudio mas preciso para este tipo de síntomas y hoy en el 2010 no hay que asustarse de hacerse una, a uno lo cedan y no se siente nada.&lt;br /&gt;  Seamos prudentes, educándonos sobre formas de prevencion es una manera de ponerle un freno a esta enfermedad. Si a mi me hubiesen informado bien podría haber detectado mi cancer casi un año antes de que me lo descubrieran en un grado mas bajo y con muchas posibilidades de curarlo, cuando empece a sentir que la comida me raspaba en la zona del esofago y no quería ir al doctor pensando que se me iba a pasar. Tuve que pasar por 4 doctores y siempre lo retribuían a un reflujo de ácido y me daban un remedio para que se me pasara hasta que fui yo quien pedí que me hicieran una endoscopia por recomendacion de mi madre y hay se detecto el cancer de esófago en el grado mas alto, 4 con metástasis en otros órganos, pulmón, hígado y en muchos nódulos linfáticos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Sigo siempre con la esperanza alta, disfrutando la vida  todos los días especialmente con mi familia, ellos son mi mayor felicidad y estoy agradecidimo con Dios por cada día nuevo de vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios es real.  Federico        (Foto: Hace mas de una semana con mi hijo)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1393367958793434005?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1393367958793434005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1393367958793434005' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1393367958793434005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1393367958793434005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/05/con-la-esperanza-alta-high-hopes_19.html' title='Con la Esperanza alta.  High Hope'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S_t0T7PmBgI/AAAAAAAADy4/GFr9EH0v3hY/s72-c/Papi+y+Mate.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4908915427413298997</id><published>2010-04-20T23:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-13T23:31:02.516-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ready for a new battle. Listo para una nueva batalla</title><content type='html'>My tumors in the liver got very aggressive and got bigger. My biggest one now is 5.5 cm. &lt;br /&gt; I am starting with a new chemotherapy in 2 days, this Thursday. My doctor wanted to do a procedure directly to my liver instead of doing chemotherapy,  but it has been taking a while and we can not wait any longer for an authorization from my insurance. The tumors are growing fast. &lt;br /&gt; I have moved for treatment to a new place. I am no longer being treated at The City of Hope. &lt;br /&gt; I have found a doctor who treats cancer with a more integrative mind and works together with alternative therapies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Beside all this I am doing very good, with my hope always high, enjoying a lot my family everyday and so grateful with God for every new day of life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I said it before but I tell you again, conventional medicine alone is incomplete, integrative medicine is the only  way, a combination of conventional and holistic medicine. Help me to promote it. There are a lot of people doing it already.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Eat organic and whole foods, the healthiest.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; God exists and is so real&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4908915427413298997?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4908915427413298997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4908915427413298997' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4908915427413298997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4908915427413298997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/04/ready-for-new-battle-listo-para-una.html' title='Ready for a new battle. Listo para una nueva batalla'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-2232477165371087345</id><published>2010-02-27T00:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T22:31:19.080-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Starting a new chapter.   Empieza una nueva etapa.</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;    In the last two weeks I had an MRI and echo cardiogram. My heart is doing good despite all the chemo I've had. The MRI showed that one of the tumors in my liver grew while the rest stayed the same or decreased in size. I also had a CT scan of the chest to look at my lungs, esophagus and stomach and everything was clear.&lt;br /&gt;    My doctor decided to stop with the chemo  because they believe that it is becoming ineffective. They have studied my case and decided on a new protocol that will attack the cancer from a different direction. The chemo they have decided on is one drug by IV and they want to start this week. I am looking at other options in other hospitals that can treat me with more of an integrative system. I have a consultation this week with an oncologist from a clinic  that treats cancer patients with conventional medicine and holistic. This clinic is called oasisofhope.com. The term "holistic" comes from the greek word "Holos", that means "Whole".&lt;br /&gt;Holistic medicine is medical care involving the treatment of the whole person - body, spirit and mind.&lt;br /&gt;Holistic medicine promotes the healing philosophy that views the patient as a whole person, not as just a disease or a collection of symptoms. During treatment, holistic medical practitioners may address a patient’s emotional or spiritual dimensions as well as other factors that can affect ones health including nutrition, environment, and lifestyle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe  that  thanks to the changes I have done in my life with my diet since I was diagnosed with this cancer plus conventional medicine plus holistic medicine plus my  faith in Jesus Christ, I was able to make it to 3 years of life with this aggressive cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God is real&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until next time. Federico  (The first pictures is my mother with my son Mateo and my daughter Lucia )&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SPANISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hola a todos.&lt;br /&gt; Me hicieron una resonancia magnética y un ecocardiograma hace dos semanas. El corazón lo tengo bien. La resonancia mostró que un tumor esta creciendo, los demás tumores están igual.&lt;br /&gt; También me hicieron una tomografia computada este Lunes pasado para ver especialmente los pulmones, el esófago y el estomago y salio que esta todo bien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S4jc0mjHs-I/AAAAAAAADyE/1Lsrt2MxlxA/s1600-h/IMG_2830.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S4jc0mjHs-I/AAAAAAAADyE/1Lsrt2MxlxA/s320/IMG_2830.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442842945936405474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Mi doctor decidió parar con las drogas de quimioterapia porque piensa que no tienen la misma efectividad de antes y ya se decidieron por un nuevo protocolo de quimioterapia que va a ser con una sola droga fuerte que me la empezarían a dar en dos semanas mas.&lt;br /&gt; Por mi lado yo estoy buscando otras opciones en otros hospitales que me puedan tratar con una medicina mas integral y ya tengo turno para la semana que viene con un oncologo de una clínica que tratan a pacientes de cancer con medicina convencional y holistica. Esta clinica se llama oasisofhope.com&lt;br /&gt; El término “Holístico” viene de la palabra griega “Holos”, que significa “Todo”. La medicina holística es la medicina del Todo, y pretende tratar no sólo malestares puntuales y determinados problemas específicos (sean estos de orden físico o emocional), sino que tratarlos todos a la vez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S4jdYPqHLzI/AAAAAAAADyM/yLuvfTlcXPQ/s1600-h/IMG_2849.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S4jdYPqHLzI/AAAAAAAADyM/yLuvfTlcXPQ/s320/IMG_2849.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442843558267006770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Creo con mucha convicción que gracias a los cambios que he hecho en mi vida desde que me diagnosticaron este cancer mas mi fe en Jesucristo he podido llegar a  casi tres años de vida con este cancer agresivo sintiéndome fuerte y con solo hoy tumores muy chicos en el hígado que son consecuencia de metástasis del comienzo de este cancer que se inicio en la entrada del estomago mayormente en el esófago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Estos son los cambios que he realizado durante estos casi tres años desde que me diagnosticaron este cancer. Y mucho lo he aprendido a través de profesionales en lo holistico.&lt;br /&gt; Nutrición: alimentos integrales, nada de comidas procesadas o refinadas. Principalmente verduras solamente orgánicas. Las que mas consumo son espinaca, kale, apio, perejil, cilantro, repollo, brocoli, zanahoria, zapallo.  Granos, semillas y legumbres. Los principales que como son, quinoa, avena, semillas de girasol, trigo (pan y pasta integral), arroz integral.&lt;br /&gt;Poco de carne blanca como ser pollo  de granja, salmón y sardinas principalmente porque tienen Omega y otros pescados que no sean criados en granjas.  Evito la consumision de cualquier tipo de carne animal porque en mi caso es contraproducente porque causa un estado mas acidoso en mi organismo que es favorable para el crecimiento de las células cancerigenas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S4jeB6IUCpI/AAAAAAAADyU/qHhN-w5kMK4/s1600-h/IMG_2816.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S4jeB6IUCpI/AAAAAAAADyU/qHhN-w5kMK4/s320/IMG_2816.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442844274042604178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ninguna comida con MSG y cambio genético.&lt;br /&gt;Aceite de oliva extra virgen "cold pressed" (no se como seria en castellano), sal de mar en moderación.&lt;br /&gt;Agua filtrada (nada en botella de plástico), tes decafeinados principalmente te verde, leche de almendras sin azúcar.. Nada de azúcar, nada de miel, nada que contenga azúcar agregada. (el azúcar es el alimento principal de las células cancerigenas)&lt;br /&gt;Nada de lácteos. Nada de frituras. En frutas evito las  que contengan mucha azúcar como ser las bananas.&lt;br /&gt;Tomo jugos de verduras orgánicas casi todos los días.  Frutas secas: almendras y nueces.&lt;br /&gt;Utilizo muchisimo hierbas para condimentar.  Uso también jengibre, ajo, turmeric, curri y otros.&lt;br /&gt;Tomo jugo de aloe vera que descubrí que es una de las plantas mas sagradas de la tierra por todas las propiedas terapéuticas que tiene. (buena para el sistema inmunologico, para las músculos, las articulaciones, etc)&lt;br /&gt;No tengo nada de teflon para cocinar que es muy toxico, solo acero inoxidable, hierro, cerámica o vidrio.&lt;br /&gt;Nada de plástico en la cocina. Jabones y detergentes naturales. No tengo microondas (mata nutrientes de los alimentos y le cambia la molécula a los líquidos) Vayan pensando donde van a "reciclar" sus microondas.&lt;br /&gt;Ningún químico para limpiar la casa. Solo bicarbonato de sodio, vinagre blanco y algún otro producto natural.&lt;br /&gt;Filtros de agua en la ducha del baño y en la pileta de la cocina. Detergente natural para lavar la ropa. Y jabones y shampoo naturales.&lt;br /&gt;No tengo coneccion inalámbrica de internet, solo cable fijo al modem para evitar ondas electromagnéticas adentro de la casa. Utilizo el celular con el "speaker" para evitar la onda electromagnética en el cerebro.&lt;br /&gt;No tengo ningún aparato electrónico conectado en la habitación donde duermo.&lt;br /&gt;Consumo todos los días varios suplementos vitaminicos y nutritivos y un par que son medicina natural para reforzar el sistema inmunologico.&lt;br /&gt; Ejercicio: Hacer una actividad física todos los días si los efectos secundarios de la quimioterapia me lo permiten.&lt;br /&gt; Consumo mariguana legalmente para aguantar los efectos secundarios especialmente los primeros días después de cada infiltración y para tener hambre ya que cuesta comer normal después de cada dosis de quimioterapia. (tengo licencia para hacerlo en el Estado de California que es legal para uso medicinal) &lt;br /&gt; Estoy empezando a sacarme todas las amalgamas que tengo en la boca con un odontólogo holistico. Las amalgamas son una toxina malisima para el cuerpo que reduce los niveles de energía. 50% de la amalgama es mercurio que se evapora constantemente en la boca y mas si masticamos y nos lavamos los dientes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Espero que algunas de las cosas  que describo acá ayude a otros a tener  mejor calidad de vida estén o no atravesando cualquier tipo de enfermedad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Dios es real&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hasta la próxima. Federico  (primer foto: Mateo y Lucia con mi mama)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-2232477165371087345?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/2232477165371087345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=2232477165371087345' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2232477165371087345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2232477165371087345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/02/empieza-una-nueva-etapa.html' title='Starting a new chapter.   Empieza una nueva etapa.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/S4jc0mjHs-I/AAAAAAAADyE/1Lsrt2MxlxA/s72-c/IMG_2830.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-3214633677128634356</id><published>2010-01-19T11:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T22:37:42.266-08:00</updated><title type='text'>More Hope. Mas Esperanza</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SPANISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por que titulo este post "Mas Esperanza" ?  Porque recién salimos con Fede del turno con su doctor y nos sentimos mas llenos de esperanza por hoy y el futuro. Fede ya esta por encima de las estadísticas. La verdad es que no enfocamos en ellas y tratamos de no preguntar o pensar sobre estas. Pero hoy quisimos preguntarle al doctor cual era el promedio de vida de alguien con cancer de hígado por metástasis. Al Doctor Shibata  no le gusta hablar de esto con Fede porque lo ve que esta muy bien pero al final después de preguntarle nuevamente dijo que era de menos de un año. Nosotros sabíamos eso pero tratamos siempre de no pensar sobre esto. Fede supero la estadística la primera vez que fue diagnosticado con cancer y ahora la esta superando nuevamente la segunda vez. Que puedo decir ? NO ES NADA FACIL esto que estamos viviendo, PERO estamos disfrutando cada día que Dios nos da.&lt;br /&gt;Casi siempre el día antes de cada infiltración se siente algo diferente en nuestra casa, estres, ansiedad, nos preguntamos cuanto mas tiempo vamos a seguir con todo esto.  Pero le dije a Fede ayer, "tenemos que mirar hacia atrás y ver como vivimos las ultimas 3 semanas después de la ultima infiltración y darnos cuenta cuanto disfrutamos la vida y saber con convicción que vamos a estar bien las próximas 3 semanas después de esta próxima infiltración y que vamos a disfrutar la vida un montón cada día.".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mis padres se quedaron con nuestros hijos el fin de semana pasado y nos fuimos a Santa Barbara acá a dos horas al Norte de donde vivimos. La pasamos hermosisimo. Estar solos nos renueva y podemos encontrar tiempo para reflexionar. Nos despertamos temprano y nos fuimos a andar en bicicleta por la Costa de Santa Barbara descubriendo lugares bellisimos.&lt;br /&gt;Así que miro hacia atras  nuestras ultimas 3 semanas de vida y puedo decir SI, fueron increibles, fueron tan buenas !.&lt;br /&gt;Al final a Fede no le hicieron la infiltración de quimioterapia hoy. Sus células blancas estaban bajas asi que su doctor decidió posponerla hasta la semana que viene. Fede esta contentisimo que no le hicieron la infiltración porque su cumpleaños 40 es en dos días y ahora podemos celebrarlo mucho mejor. .&lt;br /&gt;Estoy tan feliz y agradecida  que mi esposo esta llegando a los 40. Hace dos años y medio, nuestro mundo paro por Fede a los 37 años. No sabíamos como iba a ser nuestro futuro. En una de sus primeras visitas con su medico supimos que tenia menos de 1% de posibilidades de sobrevivir a este tipo de cancer y no podíamos imaginarnos en esos días estando hoy asi como estamos.&lt;br /&gt;Y acá estamos, vivos con 2 años y medio por detrás que fueron asombrosos, colmados de amor y felicidad.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Fede le van a hacer la infiltración la semana que viene, el 26de Enero. Después le van a hacer el 11 de Febrero una resonancia magnética y un ecocardiograma.&lt;br /&gt;Una de las dos drogas que le pasan por infiltracion llego a su limite. Esta droga se llama Epirubicin y puede ser fatalmente toxica para el corazon si se la siguen dando. Así que en la próxima infiltración se la van a dar por ultima vez y después su doctor vera con que otra droga puede remplazar a esta y si no seguirá con las otras dos nada mas. Ya veremos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fede continua asombrandome a mi y a sus doctores. Su salud es muy buena, su nutrición es mejor que antes y continua haciendo ejercicio siempre y cuando no le molesten mucho algunos efectos secundarios de la quimioterapia. Sale a trotar, hace yoga, va a sufear y siempre esta esperando que haya buen viento para ir a hacer windsurf.&lt;br /&gt;Antes que el Doctor Shibata se fuera de la habitación, Fede le pregunto como se sentía (El tuvo cancer de pulmón, grado 3 y ahora esta en remision) y le dijo  que se sentía bien y dijo que Fede es su inspiración.&lt;br /&gt;Antes de irnos del Hospital fuimos a saludar a todas nuestras enfermeras favoritas. Ellas lo quieren mucho a Fede y El las hace reír a todas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que tengan una muy buena semana ! Gracias por su apoyo continuo.&lt;br /&gt;Marci (La esposa de Fede)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ENGLISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do I title this more hope?  Because we just finished with Fede's appoitment and we are filled with hope for today and the future. Fede is already above the statistics. The truth is we don't focus on them, try not to even ask about them or think about them. But today we wanted to ask what is the average time someone can expect to live with liver mets (Cancer that has spread from the original location to another organ). Dr. Shibata said he doesn't like to talk about it with Fede because he is doing so well but the average is less then 1 year. WOW. We knew that, but like I said we try not to think about it. Fede beat the statistics the first time around and this time he will beat it again. We are coming up on 1 year since the recurrence. What can I say?  IT IS NOT EASY, BUT we are enjoying each day that God is giving us. &lt;br /&gt;     Usually the day before the infusion it gets a little intense around the house. Anxieties under the surface, worries about the chemo, questions about how long will this go on?  But I told Fede yesterday, "we have to look back to the last 3 weeks and see how much you enjoyed your life and know with confidence that we'll get through the next 3 weeks after chemo." It helps. &lt;br /&gt;    My parents watched the kids last weekend so we could have a night away to &lt;br /&gt;Santa Barbara. It was incredible!!!  To be alone during these times renews us, gives us time to reflect. We woke up early and rode bikes around Santa &lt;br /&gt;Barbara, along the coast discovering new and beautiful places. &lt;br /&gt;      And so I look back at our last three weeks of life and I can say Yes, it was pretty good, it was great!  Well, Fede didn't have chemo today. His blood counts were a little low, right on the border so his Doctor decided to postpone it until next week. He is thrilled!  It is his 40th birthday in two days and now we can celebrate even better.  &lt;br /&gt;    The 40th birthday is infamous for being special. It's a big marker for most people, usually bringing a sense of reflection about getting "older". And I'm even reflecting on it for my husband, but it is with so much happiness and thankfulness that he is making it to 40. Two and a half years ago, our world stopped for Fede at 37 years old. We didn't know what the future was going to look like for us ( we still don't) but at one of his first appointments when the Dr. said less than 1 year, 1% chance to survive we couldn't even think as far as today. And here we are, alive with 2 1/2 years behind us that were amazing.  &lt;br /&gt;    So Fede will have chemo next week, January 26th, then he has a MRI and Echo scheduled before the next chemo on Febuary 11. Fede has almost reached his lifetime limit with one of the three drugs that he is taking.  Epirubcin can be fatally toxic to the heart so he has one infusion left then we are going to come up with another plan. Maybe continue on oxaliplatin and xeloda for awhile or maybe they'll add in another drug to replace it. We will see. Fede continues to amaze me and his doctors. His health otherwise is great, his nutrition is better than ever and he continues jogging and yoga. Before Dr. Shibata left the room, Fede asked how he is doing (had stage 3 lung cancer last year and is in remission )and he said great and told Fede he is his inspiration!!  Before we left we made our rounds to say hi to all our favorite nurses. They love Fede and he makes everyone laugh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       Have a wonderful week!  Thanks for your continued support.  &lt;br /&gt;                Marci (Fede's wife)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-3214633677128634356?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/3214633677128634356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=3214633677128634356' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/3214633677128634356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/3214633677128634356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-hope.html' title='More Hope. Mas Esperanza'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-7456734384809093208</id><published>2010-01-15T23:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-19T11:57:43.995-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year.  Feliz Año Nuevo</title><content type='html'>Happy New Year to everyone. Three weeks have passed since my last infusion. This one was difficult. My hands and feet were extremely painful and peeled but now they have recovered. I was able to recover and to do one of the things that I enjoy the most, surf. Another thing that affected me a lot this time was the fatigue, especially the first two weeks after the infusion. &lt;br /&gt;   I'm going to have another infusion coming on the 19th, two days before my 40th birthday. I want to celebrate it at my favorite place, the beach. &lt;br /&gt;     Here I'll leave something for you to enjoy watching.It is from the 13th of January in Maui, Hawaii. When in Haiti, a natural disater is happening, at the same time in another part of the world, this is happening. How crazy this planet is. http://surf.transworld.net/photos/carnage-and-chaos-at-jaws/4/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Thank you God for this day of life!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ESPAÑOL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feliz Año Nuevo a todos. Ya pasaron casi 3 semanas desde mi ultima infiltración. Me pego duro esta, las manos y los pies me los pelo pero ya se me recompuso bastante la piel y pude hacer esta ultima semana lo que mas me gusta hacer, surf.  Otra cosa que me afecto muchisimo también fue mi energía, especialmente las primeras dos semanas después de esta ultima infiltración.  Voy a tener otra este martes que viene, 19, dos días antes de mi cumpleaños, voy a tocar los 40.&lt;br /&gt;Y lo voy a festejar en mi lugar preferido, la playa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y acá les dejo algo para que disfruten viéndolo. Es de este pasado 13 de Enero en Maui, Hawaii. Cuando en otra parte del mundo esta ocurriendo una catástrofe natural como en Haiti, al mismo tiempo en otra parte esta pasando esto. Que loco este Planeta no ?&lt;br /&gt;http://surf.transworld.net/photos/carnage-and-chaos-at-jaws/4/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios, gracias por este día de vida.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-7456734384809093208?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/7456734384809093208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=7456734384809093208' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7456734384809093208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7456734384809093208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year-for-all-feliz-ano-nuevo.html' title='Happy New Year.  Feliz Año Nuevo'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4191723400358250796</id><published>2009-12-11T10:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-13T13:51:00.322-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Never give up. Nunca rendirse.</title><content type='html'>Last Thursday I had another infusion of chemotherapy. I'm now dealing with the strong side effects but I'm tolerating them pretty good. The worst effect is the neuropathy in my hands and feet that is very painful and it's been hard for me to walk and grab things. Soon it will subside. I will have another infusion December 22nd then in January another one and probably a scan shortly after that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In life, situations can change very quickly,  turning into darkness. A broken relationship, a failed business deal, the death of a loved one, an unexpected diagnosis… All of these are situations that remind us of our natural human vulnerability, and that also have the power to make us feel frightened, anxious and desperate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; For sure you have faced tough situations in your life and maybe even facing one today. Life can seem so cruel sometimes, all of us will face challenges of different degrees. But how will we face them ? Are we prepared ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKNaTd22_I/AAAAAAAADwc/p184LiWWn4A/s1600-h/IMG_2622.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKNaTd22_I/AAAAAAAADwc/p184LiWWn4A/s320/IMG_2622.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414045185094376434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In my case, going through this difficult time in my life since my cancer diagnosis more than two years ago, I've shared this challenge with God from the beginning and he has given me peace that I needed to walk through this and he has given me a constant hope. My faith in Jesus Christ has allowed me to know God clearly and understand him better through the word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Also,I feel the importance and necessity of having support from so many people. I recommend that if you are going through something very difficult in your life, don't hide, share it with the people that you trust that you can be open with, but especially put your faith in God who is there to always listen and he will give you the peace you desire to go through any situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Obviously everyone reacts differently to extreme situations, but the attitude is also what can help make the difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I strongly believe that in such cases where a person's health is compromised, are the times where one needs to be very conscious and discover what changes are necessary to find a better equilibrium and make the sacrifices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I also believe that God knows the path of each person and only wants the best for us. With faith I believe that God allows these difficult situations in our lives to show us something that we need to learn and transmit to others and a lot of times these plans come with pain included.&lt;br /&gt; And it doesn't matter what difficult situation we are going trough, God will be always with us in the good and in the bad times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKO-91WXNI/AAAAAAAADwk/ISmrKvbKHRM/s1600-h/IMG_2606.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKO-91WXNI/AAAAAAAADwk/ISmrKvbKHRM/s320/IMG_2606.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414046914454117586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I want to encourage you today to never give up, to believe that God is here for you always to listen and give you the strength and peace that you need to face any situation that you are going through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; We have to understand that these trials in life are not in vain but that they have a purpose. I believe that God wants us to be always in action for others and ourselves. We all have more strength that we realize that we have, and God can help you find it. He can also help you overcome any trial, challenge or anguish you face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; With my own experience with cancer I have learned that serenity is not to be safe from the storm, it is to find peace in the middle of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Today is a gift from God for all of us and we shouldn't waste it. Today is the day to increase our love for others, to increase our love and gratefulness to God, the day to start taking better care of our planet and make this world a better place while we are here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In God we can find the peace, hope and happiness inside until the last day of our lives.&lt;br /&gt;But today is what matters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Merry Christmas to All!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Federico &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SPANISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; El Jueves pasado tuve otra infiltración de quimioterapia. Ahora estoy pasando por lo efectos secundarios mas fuertes y los estoy tolerando bien, lo peor son las manos y los pies que me duelen mucho y me cuesta caminar y agarrar cosas pero se que pronto se me ira. El 22 de este mes me hacen otra infiltración y calculo que en dos meses mas me harán otra resonancia magnética.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; En la vida hay circunstancias que pueden cambiar y tornar en oscuridad el apacible horizonte de nuestra existencia. Una relación quebrada, un negocio truncado, el fallecimiento de un ser querido, un diagnostico inesperado...Múltiples situaciones que confirman nuestra natural vulnerabilidad humana, y que tienen el poder de hacernos presa fácil del temor, la ansiedad y la desesperación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKUFgiVUAI/AAAAAAAADxM/CW7WsJXBi2E/s1600-h/IMG_2615.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKUFgiVUAI/AAAAAAAADxM/CW7WsJXBi2E/s320/IMG_2615.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414052524406951938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Seguro que te habrás enfrentado a situaciones difíciles en tu vida, quizás estés atravesando una hoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; La vida nos puede parecer cruel a veces, todos nos vamos a enfrentar con desafios de menor o mayor magnitud.  Pero como los vamos a enfrentar ? Estamos preparados ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; En mi caso, atravesando una prueba tan difícil en mi vida con el cancer que me diagnosticaron hace mas de dos años, lo compartí con Dios desde el principio y El me brindo la calma y la paz que necesitaba para sobrellevar semejante desafío y me hizo sentir una esperanza constante. Mi fe en Jesucristo me permite conocer a Dios claramente y  escucharlo a través del Evangelio. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Y también compartirlo con familia y amigos desde el comienzo fue importantísimo. Al haber pasado tanto tiempo ya y sentir lo importante que es tener el apoyo de tanta gente, te recomiendo que si te ves enfrentado a algo tan difícil en tu vida que no te escondas, que lo compartas con las personas que confías, que seas abierto y que principalmente pongas toda la fe en Dios que esta ahí para escucharte simpre y también te dará la paz y la calma necesaria para enfrentar cualquier situación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Eso si, frente a situaciones extremas, cada persona reacciona de manera diferente, pero la actitud también es lo que hace la diferencia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Creo que en casos donde se ve comprometida la salud de uno, son situaciones para tomar con mucha conciencia y sacarles provecho y descubrir cuales son los cambios que uno debe hacer para encontrar un mejor equilibrio en la vida, y hacerlos así implique sacrificio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Creo completamente que Dios sabe muy bien como es la vida de cada uno y que solo quiere nuestro bien.&lt;br /&gt; Con fe creo que Dios permite que situaciones difíciles en nuestras vidas sucedan para mostrarnos algo que necesitamos aprender y transmitirles a otros y muchas veces estos planes de Dios vienen con dolor incluido.&lt;br /&gt; Y no importa que situación difícil estemos atravesando, El va a estar con nosotros en las buenas y en las malas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Quiero alentarte hoy a que nunca te rindas, que creas que Dios esta ahí siempre para escucharte y darte las fuerzas y la paz en medio de cualquier situación que estés pasando.&lt;br /&gt; Tenemos que creer que estas pruebas en la vida no son en vano y que tienen un propósito.&lt;br /&gt; Creo que Dios quiere que estemos siempre en acción para otros y para nosotros.&lt;br /&gt;Todos tenemos mas fuerza de la que creemos que tenemos y Dios te puede ayudar a encontrarla.&lt;br /&gt; El te puede también ayudar a superar cualquier prueba, desafío, angustia que estés atravesando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Con mi propia experiencia con cancer he aprendido que la serenidad no es estar a salvo de la tormenta, sino encontrar la paz en medio de ella.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKURHJNjCI/AAAAAAAADxU/A0cx4Qope4Q/s1600-h/IMG_2608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKURHJNjCI/AAAAAAAADxU/A0cx4Qope4Q/s320/IMG_2608.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414052723749129250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Este día es un regalo de Dios para todos nosotros y no tenemos que desperdiciarlo. Este es el día que podemos acrecentar el amor por otros, que podemos incrementar nuestro amor y agradecimiento a Dios, que podemos empezar a cuidar mas nuestro planeta y ayudar a que este mundo sea mucho mejor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; En Dios podemos encontrar Esperanza, Alegría y Paz adentro nuestro hasta el ultimo día de nuestras vidas.&lt;br /&gt; Pero hoy es el día que vale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Feliz Navidad para todos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4191723400358250796?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4191723400358250796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4191723400358250796' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4191723400358250796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4191723400358250796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/12/never-give-up-nunca-rendirse.html' title='Never give up. Nunca rendirse.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SyKNaTd22_I/AAAAAAAADwc/p184LiWWn4A/s72-c/IMG_2622.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4794497199325277499</id><published>2009-10-30T22:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T23:49:30.825-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It keeps on getting smaller.  Y se sigue achicando.</title><content type='html'>Last Thursday my doctor gave me the good news from the scan that the tumors in my liver are continuing to reduce in size. Meaning the chemotherapy treatment is showing positive results. The biggest tumor that they are measuring 3 months ago was 1.6cm and now has reduced to 0.8 mm, meaning it has shrunk by half. There still remains many small tumors but they are also getting smaller and are very tiny. &lt;br /&gt;   I was due to have chemo Thursday but my white blood cells were too low, so they postponed it a week. My doctor is also going to reduce the dose of one of the chemo drugs so that my white blood cells do not continue to be so low. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/Su0vVw9dD0I/AAAAAAAADhE/Che4vAQCEks/s1600-h/IMG_2430.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/Su0vVw9dD0I/AAAAAAAADhE/Che4vAQCEks/s320/IMG_2430.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399023579253509954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     Through this blog I also want to promote an effective, more complete medicine. An integrative medicine that works with the symptoms and the cause of the disease together. A combination of conventional medicine with holistic. A medicine that teaches us to prevent instead of waiting for a disease to occur. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists. Until the next time. Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPANISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Ayer Jueves me dio mi doctor el resultado del estudio que me hicieron la semana pasada que fue una resonancia magnética.  Salio que todo se sigue achicando. El tumor mas grande que estaba hace 3 meses de 1.6 centímetros ahora esta de 0.8 centímetros, es decir que se achico a la mitad. &lt;br /&gt;Se siguen viendo muchos tumores chiquitos pero todo se sigue reduciendo. &lt;br /&gt; La infiltración que me iban a hacer ayer no me la hicieron porque tenia bajas las células blancas. &lt;br /&gt; Me la hacen el Jueves que viene y me van a reducir la dosis de una de las drogas para que no bajen tanto las células blancas. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A través de mi blog promuevo la medicina mas efectiva, completa, una medicina integral donde se trabaja con el síntoma y la causa a la vez.  La combinacion de la medicina convencional con la medicina holistica. Y que se le enseñe a la gente  a prevenir en vez de esperar que le ocurra. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Dios existe. Hasta la próxima. Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4794497199325277499?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4794497199325277499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4794497199325277499' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4794497199325277499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4794497199325277499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/10/y-se-sigue-achicando.html' title='It keeps on getting smaller.  Y se sigue achicando.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/Su0vVw9dD0I/AAAAAAAADhE/Che4vAQCEks/s72-c/IMG_2430.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-7100295516291074494</id><published>2009-10-18T21:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T22:15:12.069-07:00</updated><title type='text'>16th infusion and still in the race</title><content type='html'>I had an infusion 10 days ago. This was a difficult one for me. The side effects were strong this time and I stayed at my sister's house for four days to rest and recover. By the time I came home to my wife and kids I was feeling much better. Feeling good is relative. It has a whole new meaning to me now. "Feeling good", includes pain in my hands and feet, heavy fatigue, and an overall nausea and headache. But today I feel excellent. I went on a long bike ride along the beach path and enjoyed the fresh ocean air. &lt;br /&gt;This coming Thursday I will be getting an MRI and will see the status of my cancer. It has been almost 3 months since the last one. As soon as I know the results I will post it. There is a certain amount of anxiety that comes with getting these scans. But after so many now, we have our ways to manage the anxiousness. One of those ways is to consciously live in the moment and not think about the future. It really is a mind game and learning to control your mind, finding the peace in the moment. &lt;br /&gt;Thanks for all your love and support!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-7100295516291074494?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/7100295516291074494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=7100295516291074494' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7100295516291074494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7100295516291074494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/10/16th-infusion-and-still-in-race.html' title='16th infusion and still in the race'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1852139059094004382</id><published>2009-09-18T22:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-27T21:44:22.486-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LA NUMERO 15.</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;SPANISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hola, la semana pasada me dieron otra dosis de quimioterapia, estoy bien, manejando mejor los efectos secundarios ya que los conozco tanto.&lt;br /&gt;Así me moleste mucho la introducción de estas drogas en mi cuerpo,  acepto que es una oportunidad de seguir viviendo y a la vez aumenta mis esperanzas de poder curarme definitivamente que es la meta que me propuse. &lt;br /&gt;Este estado me hace mas sensible y siento que acrecienta mi amor por las personas y las ganas de poder ayudar a quienes lo necesiten estén o no pasando por lo mismo.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SsA01_F9b-I/AAAAAAAADf4/kv37fety39M/s1600-h/Familia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SsA01_F9b-I/AAAAAAAADf4/kv37fety39M/s320/Familia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386363256409255906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo perdí un amigo muy especial la semana pasada por causa de un cancer de pulmón.  Nos conocimos en el mismo Hospital City of Hope hace dos años. Tuvimos una buena conección desde el primer día que nos conocimos. El me contacto a mi a través de una enfermera que los dos conocíamos en el Hospital para saber que estaba haciendo yo con medicina alternativa. Su fallecimiento nos toco muy fuerte a mi y mi esposa. Tuvimos la oportunidad de verlo en su casa en uno de sus últimos días de vida. Fue muy triste verlo así agonizando y El estaba muy feliz de que estuviéramos ahí dándole animo y yo me quede solo con El en la habitación y una de las cosas que le dije en forma de celebración fue que estábamos vivos los dos hoy, de que disfrutáramos es día que era un regalo de Dios y su cara expresaba una gran sonrisa. &lt;br /&gt; Después me entere que El era muy famoso en Hollywood. El diseñó los dibujos de películas como "la Bella y la Bestia","Tarzan", "Dinosaurios", y otros mas. Nunca me dijo nada en todo el tiempo que lo conocí. Su humildad me impacto mas después que me entere de todo esto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No esperemos para mañana poder amar mas a la gente y transmitir paz. No nos sintamos frenados a brindar mas amor y de abrazarnos mas.  &lt;br /&gt;No dejemos que nos distraigan un celular, una computadora, una television. El tiempo se va como agua entre los dedos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/Sr_HvQf9WlI/AAAAAAAADfo/xD-VjNEaab8/s1600-h/Con+Kai+y+Mate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/Sr_HvQf9WlI/AAAAAAAADfo/xD-VjNEaab8/s320/Con+Kai+y+Mate.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386243294055193170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No le digamos nunca a nuestros hijos "después", ellos nos requieren "ahora". &lt;br /&gt;Hay tanta gente ahí, cerca nuestro  que necesitan de la mejor medicina, que es el AMOR y es gratis. &lt;br /&gt;Hoy es el día y estamos VIVOS ! ! !  Aprovechemoslo. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Demosle mas paz y amor a este mundo que tanto lo necesita y que cada uno desde su lugar puede ayudar a que sea un poco mejor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dios existe. Hasta la próxima. Federico     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(En las fotos estoy con mi familia, mi esposa Marcia, mi hijo Mateo y mi hija Lucia, en la segunda foto estoy con mi hijo Mateo y mi sobrino Kai, el hijo de mi hermana Carolina) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENGLISH&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello, this last week I had my infusion, I'm ok, handling the side effects pretty good now that I know how. Of course it is a horrible feeling having these drugs in my body, but I accept them as an opportunity to keep on living and it gives me hope to cure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SsA7OlpIoMI/AAAAAAAADgA/-JDGLp-mbMA/s1600-h/Con+Lu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SsA7OlpIoMI/AAAAAAAADgA/-JDGLp-mbMA/s320/Con+Lu.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386370276143964354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This state makes me more sensitive and I feel my love grows more for people and my desire to help those who are going through the same thing or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I lost a very special friend last week from lung cancer. We met 2 years ago through the City of Hope where we both were being treated. We had g good connection from the first day we met. A special nurse introduced us because he was interested in some of the alternative medicines I was doing. His passing hit my wife and I hard. We had the opportunity to visit with him in his home during his last days of life. It was very sad to see him suffering but he was so happy to be with us as we tried to give him hope and peace. I stayed with him alone in the room and one of the things we talked about was celebrating that we were both alive that day and we talked about enjoying that day as a gift from God and he expressed a big smile. We met up at the hospital a lot and that is something we always said, "let's be happy that we're both alive today."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SsA7YTE3SUI/AAAAAAAADgI/XcVyxZ3Y7r0/s1600-h/Con+Mate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SsA7YTE3SUI/AAAAAAAADgI/XcVyxZ3Y7r0/s320/Con+Mate.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386370442958686530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   I later found out that he was very famous in the world of animation in Hollywood. He was the artist for many of the Disney movies, including "Beauty and the Beast", "Tarzan", "The little Mermaid","Lion King". He never told me anything about being "important", in all the times we spent together. His humility impacted me a lot. &lt;br /&gt;   We were very sad with our friends' passing but it is a reminder that all we have is today. To live it well and don't wait for tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets not wait for tomorrow to love others more and transmit peace. Lets not feel  afraid to offer more love and give more hugs to others.&lt;br /&gt;Lets avoid being distracted by cell phones, computers and television. The time goes, like water slipping through our fingers. &lt;br /&gt;Lets not tell our children to "wait", or "I'll do it later". They need us NOW. There are many people around us who need the best medicine, which is LOVE and it is free!&lt;br /&gt;Today is the day and we are alive !! Lets take advantage of it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets give more peace and love to this world that needs it so much and each of us from our own place can help it to be a little better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God exists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until next time, Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(In the pictures I am with my Family, my wife Marcia, my son Mateo and my daughter Lucia, in the second one one I am with my son Mateo and my nephew Kai, the son of my sister Carolina)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1852139059094004382?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1852139059094004382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1852139059094004382' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1852139059094004382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1852139059094004382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/09/la-numero-15.html' title='LA NUMERO 15.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SsA01_F9b-I/AAAAAAAADf4/kv37fety39M/s72-c/Familia.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-7171914794868193892</id><published>2009-08-22T22:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T12:34:01.947-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Volviendo locas a las celulas cancerigenas. Cancer cells going crazy.</title><content type='html'>Here I am, at 2 days from my last infusion. I am doing well, with the typical side effects but no more pain in my arms. I have a picc line in my left arm which is used for the infusions. The Picc line is a catheter that is connected from outside the skin in my left arm close to the shoulder and it goes through a vein all the way to a big vein in the heart. The problem I had before getting the infusions through my vein in my fore arms or hands was that I was having a lot of pain in my arms during and after the infusions. It was my choice in getting the infusion like this so I didn't have to have a picc line or a portacath and this way I was more free to work, surf or windsurf and other sports on land.&lt;br /&gt; Next Friday I am having a surgery to get a portacath.in  my upper right chest to replace the picc line.  A portacath is a device which is used as the picc line, to deliver medications into the bloodstream. It is placed beneath the skin and a catheter is connected to it that goes into the vessel that has been selected to receive the medication. &lt;br /&gt; With the port I am going to be able to go in the water again. With the picc line I can't go in the water and because it is outside the skin I have to be careful from not hitting it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SpJAa5b8OvI/AAAAAAAADew/CxL2OJ7zHD4/s1600-h/DSC08784.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SpJAa5b8OvI/AAAAAAAADew/CxL2OJ7zHD4/s320/DSC08784.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373428136245213938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; When I say in the title of this new post that the "cancer cells are going crazy" it is because I totally believe that with treating my disease together with holistic medicine&lt;br /&gt; my chances of beating this are way higher than doing it only with conventional medicine, in my case with chemotheraphy. Today I don't believe there is a total cure for cancer without holistic medicine. If you don't know, Holistic medicine works on the cause of the disease and not just on the symptoms as conventional medicine does. And this is a big problem with conventional medicine and a big disappointment to me since I am into this new experience in my life. Because conventional medicine doesn't work on the cause, it makes it incomplete. For me this is a big lack in conventional medicine and a big deception that they don't transmit or show any interest in helping the patient with the cause of the disease. And the worst is that conventional medicine for the majority ignores what holistic medicine is doing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  That's why I believe in combining both conventional and holistic. And that is how it should be. And I don't believe like most of the conventional doctors that stage 4 cancer like mine is a chronic disease.&lt;br /&gt;  All of the doctors that I have encountered have not talked about or cared to inform me of a healthy nutrition which I believe is key to curing cancer. And in general most of the doctors don't inform and don't even know what healthy nutrition is. This is a fact. And I'm so disappointed about it. I am treated in one of the top ten hospitals for cancer in the United States of America and they haven't one time asked me how my nutrition is and what I'm eating. They just inform the patients about their own means of treatment: Chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. DANGEROUS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; If someone is a conventional doctor and is reading this, it is not my intention to offend anyone. My only intention is to help people understand what is happening everyday with medicine and in some way show them there are other options which are better, more effective and complete when combining them with conventional medicine.&lt;br /&gt;And this way we can have more chances to prevent and cure sicknesses of any types with the hope that we can all have access to Integrative Medicine.&lt;br /&gt;   Again I'm going to repeat what I have said in another posts, that is I recommend you all to watch  the documentary "The Beautiful Truth." If anyone wants to know how to get it please ask. You can watch the preview on youtube. &lt;br /&gt;    I'm going to summarize what I'm doing with my "integrative medicine" today or my "healthy lifestyle".  On one side, I'm doing chemotherapy which I'm receiving from The City of Hope, the hospital where I am treated here in California. And on the holistic side:  I'm eating the healthiest diet possible, keeping in mind what is not good for me to consume for cancer. For example I have eliminated red meats, all dairy products and sugar, even honey. I eat all organic vegetables, and at least once a day I drink an organic veggie juice, which I highly recommend. I also eat, whole grains,cereals, seeds, and organic fruits. As well as white meat, like chicken, turkey and fish. I drink a lot of filtered water and have stopped drinking anything from plastic. I have totally eliminated plastics from my home including plastic bottles, baggies and plastic containers. We have also gotten rid of all Teflon pots and pans and only use stainless steel and iron. All of this to avoid toxins as much as possible. &lt;br /&gt;    We haven't had a microwave for 2 years now and find it even easier to heat up food on the stove or in the oven. Microwaves kill the nutrients of the food and also change the molecular structure of the liquids.&lt;br /&gt;   All of this that I'm telling you now is quick information and without much detail. I will go into more details in the coming posts.&lt;br /&gt; I've been studying and informing myself since I was diagnosed 2 years ago and would like to share some of this information with you to help you live a healthier lifestyle with less risks for sicknesses and diseases.&lt;br /&gt; The statistic today in the United States is 1 in 3 women will have cancer in their lifetime and 1 in 2 men will have cancer. Alarming statistics right?&lt;br /&gt;   Along with everything I have said before, I also take vitamin supplements to support my organs and especially my immune system. I am physically active and  try to do some form of activity even when I'm not feeling well. I try to stay as active as possible, I rest when needed but try not to lay down too much. i believe this is elemental in the fight with cancer. STAY ACTIVE. &lt;br /&gt;   Cancer cells do not like an oxygenated body. And a positive mental state and mind is fundamental to not fall into a depression. Find the joy in the little things. My children help me with this daily. Because I'm with them so much, they are teaching me how to find JOY daily. Avoid stress as much as possible. That's not always easy to do, but I do believe it is possible. We all are able to eliminate stresses in our daily life, you just have to take a good look at your life and see the things that can be changed. Most importantly, have a lot of FAITH and HOPE. And have a good relationship with our creator, God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Francisco Zuccotti, lawyer and author of the book “I saw light and I entered. The touch of a blind observer” made the following statement in a recent interview, referring to the personal “storm” that he had to face when he lost his sight: “I learnt that serenity is not to be safe from the storm, it is to find peace in the middle of it” &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Until next time. God exists. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CASTELLANO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acá estoy a dos días de mi ultima infiltración de quimioterapia. Me siento bien, con los típicos efectos secundarios de siempre pero sin el dolor fuerte en los brazos. Es que ahora tengo conectado en el brazo izquierdo una guia, acá le dicen picc line,  que va por una vena hasta justo antes del corazón donde la vena se agranda, es la vena cava superior. La infiltración va derecho a esa vena grande y al no hacerla a través del brazo como me lo hacían antes, evito el dolor intenso que me daba durante y después. No me quedo otra que me pusieran esto porque las venas de los dos brazos ya no me estaban funcionando para hacerme la infiltración. La razón por la cual evite por mucho tiempo que me pusieran esta guia fue para poder tener mas libertad para  trabajar y hacer deportes, especialmente surf y windsurf. &lt;br /&gt; Este próximo viernes me van a hacer una pequeña operación para ponerme un portacath como le dicen acá, que va ubicado en el pecho entre la piel y el músculo y la infiltración seria directa como ahora con la guia. Es un dispositivo pequeño del tamaño de una chapita de gaseosa.  Lo bueno que con esto voy a poder seguir haciendo mis deportes en el agua y no voy a tener que andar con algo en mi brazo como tengo ahora y  cuidarme  de no golpearlo o arrancarlo sobre todo cuando estoy con mis hijos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como digo en el titulo de este nuevo portal, que estoy volviendo locas a las células cancerigenas, es porque creo totalmente que tratando mi enfermedad con la quimioterapia junto con medicina holistica, mis posibilidades de derrotar a este cancer son muchisimo mas altas que haciéndolo solo con medicina convencional. &lt;br /&gt; Hoy después de todo lo que vengo aprendiendo no creo que haya una cura total del cancer sin la medicina holistica.  &lt;br /&gt; Para los que no saben, en la medicina holistica se trabaja en la causa de la enfermedad y no solo en el síntoma como lo hacen en la medicina convencional. Y esto es una gran falla de la medicina convencional y una gran decepción para mi que no lo hagan y no demuestren ni siquiera interés de averiguarlo y poder ayudar al paciente en la causa. Y lo peor, la medicina convencional en su mayoría, ignora lo que la medicina holistica esta haciendo, además de no  demostrar interés en averiguarlo. &lt;br /&gt; Por eso yo creo en una medicina integral, donde se combine lo holistico con lo convencional. Y así tendría que ser. Y no creer como creen la mayoría de los doctores del lado convencional, que el cancer en grado 4,como lo es el mio, es una enfermedad crónica como me lo están diciendo actualmente. &lt;br /&gt;La mayoría de los doctores del lado convencional no nos inculcan ni profundizan sobre  una nutrición sana para sus pacientes y no se les informa otra cosa que no sea sobre el tratamiento convencional que esta recibiendo.  Todo esto lo aseguro por ser  testigo. Y ya fui atendido por varios oncologos y ninguno me demostró algo distinto. Y piensen esto, estoy en uno de los  10 mejores Hospitales para cancer de Estados Unidos y me atrevo a decir del mundo. &lt;br /&gt; Si alguien es doctor del lado convencional y esta leyendo esto, por favor no se sienta ofendido por lo que digo. Mi única intención al estar diciendo todo esto es para hacerle entender a la gente lo que esta pasando con la medicina e impulse de alguna manera como otros lo están haciendo por otros lados, a que la medicina mejore y sea completa y así podamos tener mas posibildades de curarnos y PREVENIR enfermedades de cualquier tipo y todos tener acceso a una MEDICINA INTEGRAL donde se incluya la medicina convencional y la alternativa u holisitica. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otra vez lo vuelvo a repetir, ya lo había dicho en otra nota, que les aconsejo que miren el documental "The Beautiful Truth". El que quiera saber como conseguirlo que me pregunte. Pueden ver la propaganda de este documental en youtube.com&lt;br /&gt;Y veanse este videito que les puede interesar mucho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVo2maA7h1E&amp;feature=related   Es sobre las ondas electromagneticas. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Acá voy a resumir como es mi "Medicina Integral" hoy o mi "vida sana" como mas les guste. Por un lado la quimioterapia que recibo en el Hospital "City of Hope" acá en California. Y por el lado holistico: Me alimento de la forma mas sana posible teniendo en cuenta lo que no es bueno consumir para el cancer como ser las carnes rojas, los lácteos y el azúcar. Como todas verduras orgánicas, tomo al menos una vez al día un jugo de verduras orgánicas, granos y cereales integrales, frutas que tengan que ser orgánicas salvo las de cascara gruesa, carnes blancas como pollo de granja, pavo y pescado. Tomo mucha agua filtrada y no embotellada en plástico por las toxinas que este despide salvo que sea policarbonado pero yo prefiero utilizar envases de vidrio o de acero inoxidable. Y así con todos los envases que utilizo en mi casa y en la heladera. Eliminamos totalmente el plástico y con esto me refiero a platos, vasos, etc. &lt;br /&gt;Y de suma importancia todos los elementos de teflon que desprenden una toxina nada sana para nuestro organismo.&lt;br /&gt;Elimine el microondas hace ya mucho tiempo por aprender que mata los nutrientes de las comidas y le cambia las moléculas a los líquidos. (Me van a odiar los fabricantes de microondas por esto y muchos otros)&lt;br /&gt;Esto que les cuento es a grandes rasgos. De ahora en adelante les iré informando con mas detalles. Estudio y me informo a diario sobre todo esto que les voy transmitiendo porque pienso que a través de lo que yo estoy pasando puedo ayudar a muchos para que lleven una vida mas sana y con menos riesgos de enfermedades. &lt;br /&gt; Hay una sociedad de consumo que nos esta llenando de productos que no son sanos para nuestro organismo, todo lo contrario,&lt;br /&gt;convirtiéndonos en presas fáciles a través de propagandas atrapantes e inteligentemente diseñadas. &lt;br /&gt; Para que conozcan la estadística de hoy en Estados Unidos, una de cada tres mujeres contraerá cancer en su vida y en los hombres uno de cada dos. Cifras alarmantes no ?  Y en Argentina creo que esta estadística puede estar igualada, según la información que estoy recibiendo. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Además de todo esto tomo suplementos vitaminicos recetados por médicos holisticos. Tengo una actividad física constante la cual no abandono aun en los días que siento que mi energía esta baja como me sucede hoy por ejemplo pero mi consejo para todos es que mantenerse activo, no tirarse, es elemental en la lucha contra esta enfermedad y también para los que están sanos.&lt;br /&gt;A las células cancerigenas no les gusta un cuerpo oxigenado.&lt;br /&gt;Y el estado mental y anímico es fundamental mantenerlo positivo, no deprimirse, tratar de llevar una vida en armonía y con el menor grado de stress posible. Tener mucha fe y esperanza. Y tener una buena relación con nuestro creador, Dios, y cuidar  la Tierra y ser muy concientes de lo que hacemos a diario con ella. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Francisco Zuccotti, abogado y autor del libro “Vi luz y entré. El toque de un observador ciego”, dijo lo siguiente en una reciente entrevista periodística, al referirse a la “tormenta” personal que debió experimentar cuando perdió la vista en forma irreversible: -“Comprendí que la serenidad no es estar a salvo de la tormenta, sino encontrar la paz en medio de ella".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Hasta la próxima. Dios existe.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-7171914794868193892?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/7171914794868193892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=7171914794868193892' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7171914794868193892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7171914794868193892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/08/volviendo-locas-las-celulas.html' title='Volviendo locas a las celulas cancerigenas. Cancer cells going crazy.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SpJAa5b8OvI/AAAAAAAADew/CxL2OJ7zHD4/s72-c/DSC08784.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-7186541797796896487</id><published>2009-08-12T00:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T10:49:16.375-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tumores en el hígado achicandose.  Tumors in the liver shrinking.</title><content type='html'>The MRI that I had done 2 weeks ago confirmed that the lesions in my liver are shrinking. There has been an overall decrease in liver metastases. This was compared to the MRI 1 month ago. The doctor was happy to know that the chemo is doing it's job. &lt;br /&gt;   Last week I was supposed to have another infusion but they were unable to find any veins that worked. They tried 8 times, 4 different nurses 2 times each, and everytime they inserted the IV and catather, my veins would close up. They said that it is the body's way of protecting itself. So they were unable to give me the chemo. &lt;br /&gt;They only way for me to continue with treatment is to have the portacath put in. It will be a minor surgery to place the portacath under my skin in the chest area. The chemo will be administered directly into the heart area. I have been trying to avoid this procedure since I was diagnosed with cancer. I was having all my fusions done through IV, which destroy the veins. Now this is my option and they are scheduling the procedure for next week. Right after the procedure they give me the chemo. &lt;br /&gt;     Thanks for all of your help and support. We are very grateful!&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;    Until next time, Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPANISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La resonancia magnética que me hicieron hace un poco mas de una semana atrás confirmo que los tumores en el hígado se están achicando. Esta fue comparada con la que me habian hecho un mes antes . Es decir que en un mes se redujeron los tamaños de los tumores. Esto comprueba que las 3 drogas que están utilizando para mi quimioterapia están funcionando correctamente.  &lt;br /&gt;   La semana pasada tenia otra sesión de quimioterapia la cual no me pudieron hacer porque no me funcionan mas las venas de los brazos. Se cierran a penas me insertan el catéter en estas y esto sucede a causa de la misma quimioterapia.&lt;br /&gt;  La única forma de continuar con el tratamiento es hacerme esta semana una pequeña intervención quirurgica para colocarme un dispositivo debajo de la piel en el pecho para poder infiltrarme directamente y así poder seguir con la quimioterapia.&lt;br /&gt; Esto no me agrada mucho pero es la única solución que tengo. &lt;br /&gt;  Les agradezco por este medio a todos los que me están apoyando y ayudando en esta etapa de mi vida.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  Hasta la próxima.    &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Federico&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-7186541797796896487?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/7186541797796896487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=7186541797796896487' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7186541797796896487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7186541797796896487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/08/tumores-en-el-higado-achicandose.html' title='Tumores en el hígado achicandose.  Tumors in the liver shrinking.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-596789720905970940</id><published>2009-07-10T00:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-28T20:37:00.203-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Y va otra infiltracion.  One more infusion.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SmF0siXxCcI/AAAAAAAADeg/CCrzYWxm2Aw/s1600-h/DSC_0938.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SmF0siXxCcI/AAAAAAAADeg/CCrzYWxm2Aw/s320/DSC_0938.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359693340037155266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due to serious side effects of the chemotheraphy my oncologist decided to wait one week before my 3rd infusion. I got this infusion 9 days ago. This same day I had an MRI to see if the chemo was working and if the tumors in my liver were shrinking. It seems from the MRI that the largest tumor has shrunk and so my oncologist wants to continue on the same chemo regimen. I am going to have another MRI before my next chemo on August 4th to see if there is more shrinkage compared to the last. &lt;br /&gt;   I don't feel as bad as I felt during the last round of chemo. Anyways, the first 5 days after the infusion I feel like my whole body is posessed by the drugs, it's a terrible sensation. But by now I'm feeling good the last few days. One side effect that I'm experiencing is my feet are extremely sensitive and I cannot walk barefoot. The entire bottoms of my feet have peeled and to not have pain I have to wear two pairs of socks. My hands have also peeled and i'm trying to control that with very thick hand lotion. I have found one from The Body Shop that is made from Hemp and it is incredible.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SmFzl3DhbJI/AAAAAAAADeY/cwUfwNdItSE/s1600-h/DSC_0651.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SmFzl3DhbJI/AAAAAAAADeY/cwUfwNdItSE/s320/DSC_0651.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359692125818678418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  I recommend you to watch an incredible documentary called "The Beautiful Truth". You must see it.&lt;br /&gt;    I will write more after the next MRI and infusion to let you know how things are going.&lt;br /&gt;  The pictures are from my two kids, Lucia(4)and Mateo(2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Federico &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; www.mauiwindsurfcompany.com                                         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPANISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Debido a efectos colaterales de la quimioterapia en mi estomago, mi oncologo decidió esperar una semana mas para hacerme la tercer infiltración. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SmFzMMh8tfI/AAAAAAAADeQ/6fn5gvSvOWA/s1600-h/DSC_0658.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SmFzMMh8tfI/AAAAAAAADeQ/6fn5gvSvOWA/s320/DSC_0658.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359691684906841586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Hace unos 9 días me hicieron otra infiltración. Ese mismo día me hicieron una resonancia magnética que dio que se achico muy poco el tumor mas grande en el hígado. En un mes mas me van a volver a hacer otra resonancia magnética antes de hacerme la cuarta infiltración para compararla con la que me hicieron este Martes. &lt;br /&gt;   No me siento tan mal con esta ultima como me sentí con la anterior. Igual los primeros 5 días después de esta  infiltración sentí todo el cuerpo tomado por las drogas, es una sensacion muy desagradable, es constante, pero ya se me fue bastante y me estoy sintiendo bien estos últimos 4 días. LO que no puedo mucho es andar descalzo, se me pelaron todos los pies abajo y para que no me duelan cuando camino tengo que andar siempre con dos pares de medias y zapatillas y así me la banco bien. &lt;br /&gt;  En las manos también se me callo mucho la piel pero no me molesta. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Les recomiendo que vean un documental buenisimo que se llama "The Beautiful Truth"&lt;br /&gt;("La Verdad Hermosa"). La deberia ver todo el mundo. En este documental explican y demuestran tantas cosas que no nos damos cuenta y no sabemos debido a la falta de educacion y de informacion que no nos quieren hacer llegar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Las fotos son de mis dos hijos, Lucia(4) y Mateo(2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hasta la próxima.                                        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; www.mauiwindsurfcompany.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-596789720905970940?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/596789720905970940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=596789720905970940' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/596789720905970940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/596789720905970940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/07/y-va-otra-infiltracion.html' title='Y va otra infiltracion.  One more infusion.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SmF0siXxCcI/AAAAAAAADeg/CCrzYWxm2Aw/s72-c/DSC_0938.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-255673164519672903</id><published>2009-06-18T18:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-27T22:32:09.059-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Volver a empezar.  Starting again</title><content type='html'>I believed that my cancer had completely disappeared. I had the conviction to stop with the chemothereapy treatment in August of 2008 and I did.&lt;br /&gt;    It's been two months now since it was discovered that my cancer returned in my liver with various lesions. A biopsy of my liver was done and it was confirmed that it was the same cancer returning.  You can imagine that this was not easy for me to accept, realizing that I would have to start with the same chemotherapy. Five weeks ago I started with the same chemotherapy regimine that they used before. I have recieved two infusions so far and am taking chemotherapy pills everyday morning and night. It has been very hard on me with many side effects. This thursday I will have another infusion and appt. with my Oncologist. We will also discuss doing an MRI to see if the chemotherapy is working. &lt;br /&gt;     My oncologist is trying to help me understand that cancer is chronic and that there is no cure for stage 4 cancer. Anyways, I have my faith that anything is possible and I will continue to believe that there is always a chance. I never stopped believing in alternative medicine and I continue to use alternative medicine as complementary along with the conventional. &lt;br /&gt;   Everyday I continue to investigate and learn more about the benefits of alternative medicine. I will try next time to give some more information that I have learned that is beneficial for everyone's health and that is helping me overcome a lot of side effects of chemotherapy.&lt;br /&gt;   My faith in God through Jesus is helping me and supporting me and my family with all that we are experiencing again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks so much to all that are helping and supporting me with what my family and I are going trough.   Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creía que mi cancer había desaparecido completamente. Sentí la convicción de dejar la quimioterapia en Agosto del 2008 y lo hice. &lt;br /&gt; Hace casi dos meses me descubrieron que el cancer había vuelto en el hígado con varios tumores. &lt;br /&gt;  Una biopsia en el hígado confirmo que esos tumores eran el mismo cancer que había tenido antes, dos años atrás. &lt;br /&gt;  Se imaginaran que no fue fácil aceptar esto otra vez sabiendo que tenia que volver a la misma quimioterapia. &lt;br /&gt;  Cinco semanas atrás comencé con las mismas drogas que había utilizado antes. &lt;br /&gt;  Hasta ahora ya me dieron dos infiltraciones muy fuertes con muchos efectos secundarios que me hacen sentir muy mal especialmente la primer semana después de cada una.  El Jueves que viene me van a hacer otra y después una resonancia magnética para ver como esta respondiendo todo.  &lt;br /&gt; Esto me esta haciendo comprender mejor mi enfermedad que los médicos me hacen entender que es crónica. Igualmente me tengo fe que esto de crónico puede llegar a revertirse a no crónico, al menos lo voy a creer mientras viva.&lt;br /&gt;  Nunca deje de creer en la medicina alternativa, algo que nunca deje de hacer y continuare haciendo como complemento de la medicina convencional.&lt;br /&gt; Día a día continuo investigando y aprendiendo sobre sus beneficios. Tratare en la próxima nota de hacerlo mas detalladamente para beneficio e información para todos los que me siguen y me apoyan en lo que estoy pasando. &lt;br /&gt;  Mi fe en Dios a través de Jesucristo sigue siendo mi medicina principal. Gracias a El puedo sentir esta paz interior. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Gracias a todos los que nos están ayudando y apoyando con esto que estamos viviendo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-255673164519672903?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/255673164519672903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=255673164519672903' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/255673164519672903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/255673164519672903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/06/volver-empezar.html' title='Volver a empezar.  Starting again'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-40596536720097206</id><published>2009-01-05T00:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-17T00:25:28.791-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Arranca el 2009. Starting a new year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SWHGr0EW2dI/AAAAAAAACug/tuDJ1IVU_WQ/s1600-h/Fede+y+Marci.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 166px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SWHGr0EW2dI/AAAAAAAACug/tuDJ1IVU_WQ/s320/Fede+y+Marci.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287725893523266002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SWHGlKYgnoI/AAAAAAAACuY/Bd1cvKkVppI/s1600-h/Mateo+y+Fede.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 166px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SWHGlKYgnoI/AAAAAAAACuY/Bd1cvKkVppI/s320/Mateo+y+Fede.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287725779254288002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SWHGbaYjSwI/AAAAAAAACuQ/BesB6e9X8uU/s1600-h/Papi+y+Mateo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 166px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SWHGbaYjSwI/AAAAAAAACuQ/BesB6e9X8uU/s320/Papi+y+Mateo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287725611750738690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Han pasado varios meses desde la ultima vez que escribí. En estos últimos  meses me han hecho mas estudios y una endoscopia hace casi un mes atrás y todo salio bien, no encontraron nada de mi cancer. Harán unos 5 meses que decidí parar con la quimioterapia y ahora solo continuo con medicina alternativa. No fue una decisión muy fácil de tomar pues los médicos insistían que continuara con la quimioterapia por tiempo indeterminado. &lt;br /&gt;Les pido disculpas a los que venían siguiendo mi blog por no haber escrito mas desde Julio creo. &lt;br /&gt; He tomado la decisión  de usar mi blog de contacto o información para personas que estén pasando por un cancer como el que tuve yo y también para cualquiera que este pasando por otro tipo de cancer y necesiten saber que es lo que hice y sigo haciendo en cuanto a medicina alternativa y lo que sea que quieran saber de como lleve mi tratamiento en general. &lt;br /&gt;Si tienen algún pariente o amigo o conocen a alguien que tenga el mismo cancer que tuve yo, de esófago, o cualquier otro cancer también, no duden en decirles que se pueden comunicar conmigo si quieren.  Yo iré escribiendo cada tanto sobre informacion que tenga que le sea útil a cualquier persona que este enfrentando cualquier tipo de cancer.  &lt;br /&gt;Para comunicarse conmigo lo pueden hacer a fedepecora@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Un muy Feliz Anio Nuevo para todos.  &lt;br /&gt;    Dios existe.  No pierdan nunca la esperanza. &lt;br /&gt;    Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been a while since I last updated the blog. Life has been busy with my kids and wife. In the last few months I have had more scans done and an endoscopy and everything came out clear! I had clear scans all year for 2008. It had been 5 months since I decided to stop with the chemotherapy and now I am just continuing with alternative medicine. It wasn't an easy decision to take especially since my doctors wanted me to continue for an undetermined amount of time. There is no real protocol for stage 4 esophageal cancer and my doctor admitted that there are no studies that show staying on chemotherapy while there is no cancer present would necessarily help me. He said as a doctor he would just feel more comfortable that I continue. But I had to weigh the benefits with the risks. So for now, I am just taking good care of my body, eating healthy,exercising and taking my supplements. &lt;br /&gt;Forgive me for not updating my blog more often. I've decided to use my blog as a contact or for information for people who are going through cancer like mine and for anybody else with cancer or friend or family member to know what I have done that has helped me during and after treatment. &lt;br /&gt;If you have a family member or friend with the same type of cancer or any other type, please don't hesitate in communicating with me for information. I will try to continue to update this blog with information that is useful for anyone going through cancer. &lt;br /&gt;You can communicate with me through fedepecora@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish you all a happy new year!&lt;br /&gt;God exists. Never lose hope.&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-40596536720097206?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/40596536720097206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=40596536720097206' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/40596536720097206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/40596536720097206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2009/01/arranca-el-2009.html' title='Arranca el 2009. Starting a new year'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SWHGr0EW2dI/AAAAAAAACug/tuDJ1IVU_WQ/s72-c/Fede+y+Marci.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-6514205352628702046</id><published>2008-06-24T21:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:14:12.182-08:00</updated><title type='text'>El dia que cambio mi vida para siempre.  The day that change my life for ever.</title><content type='html'>ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday 25th of June of 2007. I remember perfectly how beautiful was that morning, clear blue sky and fresh air with the sweet Maui smells of plants. &lt;br /&gt;I woke up around 6 with my wife and my kids. We had breakfast all together and played a while with Lucia and Mateo and then went to work. I drove peacefully down from my little town to the City of the island, listening to music and looking at the ocean as I always did every time I drove down. And I was thinking while driving that as soon as I got to work I had to call my doctor who was in charge of my endoscopy last week to know the results. &lt;br /&gt;I was feeling optimistic about the results I was about to hear. I thought that I didn't have anything bad but at the same I had to be prepared to hear that I could have something serious.&lt;br /&gt;I kept driving and started to pray. I believed in Jesus for a long time and I prayed to him that morning while I was driving thanking him for my wife, for my children and asking him to protect them and to keep them in good health. And thanking him for this and then I asked him to have good results from my endoscopy and to take it good without getting desperate in case if I had to listen to something bad. &lt;br /&gt;I arrived to work and later I called the clinic and they asked if I could go there as fast as I could because the doctor wanted to see me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SJP-olwoX3I/AAAAAAAACHw/kRflcRltCgk/s1600-h/Mateo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SJP-olwoX3I/AAAAAAAACHw/kRflcRltCgk/s320/Mateo1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229803565591584626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I got there they made me go right away into this room and the doctor showed up pretty soon and made me sit and she sat in front of me and without waisting any time she gave me the bad news that I had cancer in the stomach and the esophagus. &lt;br /&gt;In the next seconds I felt very confused. I looked at her and asked her if it was true and how could it be that I got this cancer being young and she said that it was a rare case, that normally older people get it. Right after she said this my kids and my wife came to my mind and I started crying and took from one of my pockets my wallet. I opened it and showed the doctor the pictures of my kids, Lucia and Mateo and a picture of my wife Marcia and asked her how I was going to tell this to my wife, that I was going to brake her heart. I few minutes went by and I got stronger, I dried my tears and asked the doctor what was next, what I have to do to cure this and she explained to me the steps to follow. First of all I had to see an oncologist soon. Then I asked her what were the chances to cure this cancer and she said that they were very low. She told me she had to make a phone call and left me alone in the room and I started to cry. At the same time I prayed and asked God how I was going to tell my wife this. To please help me to go along the best way with all this with my family, that I was not mad with him for having this, that it was not fair to be upset with you after all the blessings I got already in my life and asked him to at least please give me the possibility to raise my kids with my wife, to please don't let me go. I felt a good relief after praying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SJQElutqiYI/AAAAAAAACIQ/jt9mYmJSklk/s1600-h/Lucia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SJQElutqiYI/AAAAAAAACIQ/jt9mYmJSklk/s320/Lucia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229810113525221762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The doctor came back to the room and she told me they just called the only oncologist in the island. He was going to call to my house anytime to get us an appointment. When she told me this I got desperate, I didn't want anyone else but me to tell my wife first what were the results. I didn't like at all this negligence of my gastroenterologist. I asked her to let me make a phone call to my wife now. She let me call her from her office. You can imagine it wasn't easy at all to tell my wife this bad news. I told my wife I was going home once I left the clinic. &lt;br /&gt;When I left the entrance door of the clinic I rose my sight to the sky, the sun felt warm in my face, it was a beautiful day, no clouds, an ocean breeze and I started to thank God for that day, for being alive, for my family and I didn't stop thanking him until I got to my car. I got in, started driving and kept thanking him and I drove home thanking him for a lot of things, but mainly for being alive and for my family. Before getting home I started thinking what I was going to tell my wife. I was going to try to bite my tears y show her that everything was fine but I didn't know what I was going to tell her as soon as I saw her. &lt;br /&gt;I arrived home and my wife was waiting for me in the yard with my son in her arms. Lucia was inside playing with my brother. My wife had called my brother right after I spoke with her and he came right over.&lt;br /&gt;I got out of my car and walked towards the gate of my yard looking at my wife. She was so sad, and when I got closer to her these words just came out from inside of me " this is nothing compared to what Jesus suffered on the cross for us". I hugged her and we didn't say anything, we just stayed in our embrace with Mateo in between us, both of us crying.&lt;br /&gt;I then went inside the house and there was Lucia playing with my brother. And for her it was like any other day, happy that I was there. I started playing with her on the floor and I said to by brother " Can you believe this?" I think that my brother was in shock and couldn't realize what was happening. It was the kind of news that was so hard to accept especially for someone from my family.&lt;br /&gt;Two weeks later we left our home in Maui headed for California, where I decided to get treated at a hospital that dedicates itself exclusively to the treatment of all types of cancer, The City of HOPE. Our new life was about to begin.&lt;br /&gt;The next day after I arrived, I had an endoscopic ultrasound to begin staging my cancer. This test was very important and if I had stayed in Hawaii, there was only 1 clinic on Oahu offering this test and the wait was very long. After a PET scan, CAT scan and endoscopy my cancer was staged at stage 4, metastasis. It was already advanced with metastasis to the liver and lungs. I needed to start treatment as soon as possible. The doctors told me that the possibility to cure this was 1%.I believe they said this so they didn't have to tell me that it was incurable. &lt;br /&gt;From the beginning I decided to use both conventional medicine and holistic medicine and very soon after all the cancer started to shrink.I never lost my faith that was my main strength. I always believed that there was a possibility to cure. I transformed that 1% chance of survival to 100% from the first day and I never doubted. I had faith and still have faith that God can give me this opportunity that I asked him to continue raising my children with my wife Marcia and I believe he is giving this to me. &lt;br /&gt;In December of last year many people from my church here in California were fasting and praying for me. Each day of the month was covered in prayer by faithful friends, some that didn't even know me personally. On the evening of December 14th I experienced something that never happened to me in my life. While I was sleeping I felt a presence of something and felt two hand touching me. They were wrapping my body, coming from underneath, very softly. I slowly woke up, and realized what was happening. It happened around 12 midnight. When I felt the hand move away, I was given a kiss on my left ear and was told something like " it is finished." With my faith, I believe God sent me and angel that night to finish curing me. Seven days later I had my scans again that showed the tumor in the esophagus was gone. It did not appear in the scan. All of the lymph nodes that previously showed cancer came back clear with no evidence of cancer.The spot in my liver also disappeared and there was only 3 very small spots in my lungs that had shrunk a lot since the last scan and one was completely gone. The end of February I had scans again and the 3 spots left in my lungs were gone and there was not evidence of cancer in my body. Three weeks ago I had scans once more and there was still no sign of cancer in my body.&lt;br /&gt;Since I was diagnosed with this cancer, my wife and I have grown so much closer in our relationship with God. Our faith in Jesus grew and grew as the cancer shrunk. Never before have we thanked God SO much for our lives. We are so full of thanks for all the blessing that he has given to us during this experience. Without Jesus, my wife and I would not have been able to go through this trial with so much peace, hope and love. Thanks be to him, his mercies endure forever. And to everyone who has helped us throughout this experience, we THANK YOU from our hearts. &lt;br /&gt;As of now, I have to continue with chemotherapy in a pill form. I have not had an infusion since January 17th. Everyday I take the chemo pills, the same ones that I have been on since the beginning. So instead of three drugs, I am only on one and this is considered preventative for now. Every 3 months I will have the scans to see how I am doing. Thanks for reading and thanks for all of your support!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunes 25 de Junio del 2007. Me acuerdo perfectamente lo hermosisima que estaba esa maniana, el cielo despejado y el aire fresco con aroma a plantas. Me desperte a eso de las 6 de la maniana con mi esposa y mis hijos. Desayunamos todos juntos, jugue un rato con Lucia y Mateo y luego me despedi para ir a trabajar. Maneje tranquilo bajando desde mi pueblo hacia la ciudad de la isla, escuchando musica y mirando el mar como lo solia hacer siempre y pensaba que a penas llegara al trabajo tenia que llamar a la doctora que habia estado a cargo de la endoscopia el viernes pasado. Estaba muy optimista acerca de los resultados que me iban a dar, pensaba que no tenia nada malo pero me acuerdo muy bien que a la vez pense de estar preparado a escuchar que podia tener algo serio. Seguia manejando y me puse a rezar. Yo creo en Jesucristo desde hace ya mucho tiempo y a El le rece esa maniana mientras manejaba diciendole primero lo que le decia todas las manianas y lo sigo haciendo, agradeciendole por mi esposa y mis hijos, y pidiendole que me los proteja y que les de buena salud y despues le pedi de no fuera nada malo cuando me dieran los resultados de la endoscopia, pero que si llegara a ser algo malo que me ayudara a tomarlo bien y no desesperarme. &lt;br /&gt; Llegue al trabajo y al rato hice el llamado a la clinica y me dicen que fuera ahora mismo que la doctora me queria ver. Cuando llego me hacen pasar de inmediato a un cuarto y enseguida se presento la doctora, me hizo sentar, ella se sento en frente mio y asi sin perder tiempo me dio la mala noticia de que tenia cancer de esofago y estomago justo en la union del esofago con el estomago y me dice que lo sentia muchisimo. En los segundos siguientes me senti confundidisimo, la miraba y le preguntaba que si era cierto, que como podia ser que yo me hubiese agarrado cancer, y me dice que es un caso rarisimo, que yo era muy joven para agarrarme este tipo de cancer, que normalmente se da en gente mayor. Y ahi nomas me paso por la cabeza mis hijos y mi esposa y me puse a llorar y saque mi billetera del bolsillo, la abri y le mostre a la doctora las fotos de mis hijos y de mi esposa y le decia como le iba a decir esto a mi esposa, que le iba a romper el corazon. Pasaron un par de minutos mas, me puse fuerte, me seque las lagrimas y le pregunte que tenia que hacer a partir de ahora, que tenia que hacer para curarlo y me explico brevemente los pasos a seguir, lo primero de todo, tenia que ver urgente a un oncologo y le pregunte si se podia curar este cancer y me dijo que que las posibilidades de curar este cancer eran muy bajas. Me dijo que volvia enseguida a la habitacion y me quede solo por unos minutos y me largue a llorar y al mismo tiempo le rece a Dios y le pregunte como le iba a decir esto a mi esposa, que por favor me ayudara a llevar todo esto de la mejor manera con mi familia, que yo no estaba enojado con El por esto, que era injusto enojarme con El despues de todas las bendiciones que me habia dado en mi vida, y le pedi que por favor me ayudara y me diera al menos la posibilidad de poder criar a mis hijos junto con mi esposa. &lt;br /&gt; La doctora volvio al cuarto y me dice que ya habia pedido turno con el oncologo y que iban a llamar a mi casa y ahi le pregunto que si iban a llamar ahora y me dice que si y me desespere cuando me dijo eso porque yo no queria que otra persona le dijera a mi esposa lo que tenia antes de que yo se lo dijera, no me gusto para nada esta negligencia de la doctora y le pedi un telefono que tenia que llamar a mi esposa ya. La doctora me hizo pasar a su oficina y llame a mi casa y se imaginaran que no fue nada facil tener que darle esta noticia a mi esposa y le dije que ya iba para casa. Ni bien sali de la Clinica alce mi mirada al cielo, el sol estaba radiante, era un dia hermosisimo, y le empece a agrader a Dios por ese dia, por estar vivo, por mi familia y no pare de decirle gracias hasta que llegue a mi coche, me subi y segui diciendole gracias, parecia un disco rallado, no paraba de decir gracias y asi maneje hasta mi casa sin parar de agradecerle por muchas cosas, pero principalmente por estar vivo y por mi familia. Ya cuando estaba por llegar a mi casa empece a pensar como iba a ser el encuentro con mi esposa, iba a hacer lo imposible por morderme las lagrimas y demostrarle que estaba todo bien pero no sabia que le iba a decir ni bien la viera. Llegue y ahi estaba esperandome en el jardin con mi hijo Mateo en sus brazos y Lucia estaba adentro jugando con mi hermano Mariano que mi esposa lo habia llamado despues de hablar conmigo en el telefono y  se fue enseguida para mi casa. Baje de mi coche, camine hacia la puerta de mi jardin mirandola a mi esposa, ella estaba triste y cuando me acerque a ella me salio de adentro "esto no es nada al lado de lo que sufrio Jesus por nosotros en la cruz". La abrace y no nos dijimos nada mas, solo nos quedamos abrazados con Mateo entre los dos y los dos llorabamos. Despues me fui adentro de la casa y ahi estaba Lucia jugando con mi hermano y ella estaba como cualquier otro dia, contenta que estaba ahi y me puse a jugar con ella y mi hermano, y le dije a mi hermano "podes creer esto ?" Creo que mi hermano no cayo en ese dia de lo que realmente pasaba, era una noticia que costaba asimilar, especialmente para alguien de mi familia. &lt;br /&gt; En dos semanas nos estabamos llendo de la isla mi esposa, mis hijos y yo rumbo a California donde iba a ser tratado en un Hospital dedicado exclusivamente a todo tipo de cancer, City of Hope. Una nueva vida comenzaba.&lt;br /&gt; En este Hospital me detectaron bien en que grado estaba mi cancer. Era del grado mas alto, 4 con metastasis. Ya estaba muy avanzado y por eso habia que empezar lo antes posible con quimioterapia. La posibilidad de curarlo eran de 1 por ciento me dijeron los medicos (para no decirme 0 ).&lt;br /&gt; Mi tratamiento desde el comienzo lo hice con medicina alternativa y medicina convencional y muy pronto se empezo a achicar todo el cancer.&lt;br /&gt; Nunca perdi la fe que fue mi fuerza principal y siempre pense en que tenia una oportunidad de curarme, ese 1 por ciento lo transforme desde el primer dia en 100 por ciento y nunca dude. Tenia fe y la sigo teniendo de que Dios me podia dar esa oportunidad que le pedi de poder criar a mis hijos con mi esposa Marcia y creo que me la esta dando. &lt;br /&gt; En Diciembre del anio pasado muchas personas de mi Iglesia aca en California estuvieron ayunando por mi. El 14 de Diciembre mientras dormia experimente algo que nunca me habia pasado antes en mi vida, fui tocado por dos manos mientras dormia boca arriba. Me entraban por debajo de mi espalda muy suavemente, de apoco me fui despertando y empece a darme cuenta de lo que estaba pasando. Paso alrededor de las 12 de la noche. Las manos las senti con los dos brazos y eran grandes. Cuando se retiraron las manos recibi un beso en mi oreja izquierda y me dijo algo como que ya esta.  Con fe creo que Dios me mando un angel esa noche para terminar de curarme.    Siete dias despues me hicieron los estudios que revelaron  que el tumor en el esofago y estomago habia desaparecido, todo los ganglios linfaticos que tenia tomados volvieron a la normalidad, lo que tenia en el higado desaparecio y solo quedaban 3 nodulos en un pulmon que se habian achicado muchisimo y uno habia desaparecido. A fines de Febrero me volvieron a hacer los estudios y los nodulos en el pulmon habian desaparecido y el resultado fue que no habia evidencia de cancer y hace unas 3 semanas atras me volvieron a hacer los estudios nuevamente y el resultado fue otra vez que no hay evidencia de cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Desde que fui diagnosticado con este cancer mi esposa y yo nos hemos acercado muchisimo mas a Dios, nuestra fe en Jesucristo crecio mucho mas. Nunca antes le agradeci a Dios tanto por la vida y por tantas bendiciones que me ha dado durante esta nueva experiencia de mi vida. Sin El mi esposa y yo no hubiesemos sido capaces de llevar toda esto con tanta paz, tanta esperanza, con tanto amor.  Gracias Dios. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Y a todos los que nos han ayudado y a los que estan ahi siempre dandome aliento, a todos los abrazo juntos y les digo gracias ! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Y como sigue esto ahora, tengo que seguir haciendo quimioterapia pero mas leve, seria preventiva. Todos los dias estoy tomando pastillas de quimioterapia que son las mismas que vengo tomando desde el principio que junto a dos drogas mas formaban antes el "coctail" de mi quimioterapia. Y cada 3 meses me van a ir haciendo los estudios. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hasta la proxima.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                              Fede&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-6514205352628702046?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/6514205352628702046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=6514205352628702046' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6514205352628702046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6514205352628702046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/06/el-dia-que-cambio-mi-vida-para-siempre.html' title='El dia que cambio mi vida para siempre.  The day that change my life for ever.'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SJP-olwoX3I/AAAAAAAACHw/kRflcRltCgk/s72-c/Mateo1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-7003281354067637846</id><published>2008-06-08T09:18:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T10:07:51.882-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Estudios otra vez con muy buenos resultados.  Good results again.</title><content type='html'>Hola a todos, escribo corto para contarles que el Jueves me hicieron otra vez los estudios despues de casi 3 meses y salio otra vez que no hay evidencia de cancer.&lt;br /&gt;Esta es la segunda vez que los estudios salen con los mismos resultados. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Gracias a todos los que me bancaron y me siguen bancando en el transcurso de mi curacion y recuperacion. Un abrazo grande a ustedes. Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hello everybody, I write shortly to tell you that I just got done the scans on Thursday after 3 months since the last scans and they are clear, there is no evidence of cancer again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   THanks so much to everyone that have supported me and keep on supporting me troughout this long time of curing and recovering from this disease. &lt;br /&gt;Big hug to you. Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-7003281354067637846?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/7003281354067637846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=7003281354067637846' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7003281354067637846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7003281354067637846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/06/esudios-otra-vez-con-muy-buenos.html' title='Estudios otra vez con muy buenos resultados.  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I've seen my doctor more than a month ago and I didn't get an infusion. He told me that it is not necessary to have an infusion now, but I have to keep taking the chemotheraphy pills everyday and they are strong enough.&lt;br /&gt;I am still having side effects from the chemotheraphy but not as strong as they were when I was getting the infusions together with the pill. &lt;br /&gt;This time I noticed my doctor was more open with me than last month,when he gave me the great results from the last scans. He expressed his excitement about the good results from one month ago and he said the results were really excellent and that there was no sign of disease. I asked him for how long I need to continue with the chemotheraphy and he said that he is going to determine that after the next scans in 3 more weeks. He said if nothing appeared again we could go for 6 more months or less with the treatment and then find a stopping point. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SB4qR41ACSI/AAAAAAAAB9s/mtS102VRcJg/s1600-h/IMG_8853.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SB4qR41ACSI/AAAAAAAAB9s/mtS102VRcJg/s320/IMG_8853.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196637506832959778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This month I had the opportunity to go windsurfing, there was good wind and waves. It was my first time windsurfing with waves in California since I started with the treatment. &lt;br /&gt;In one of the pictures I am with my oncologist from City of Hope Dr. Shibata from my last appointment. The City of Hope interviewed me and wrote and article about me and my progress for their fall publication. I hope to encourage patients to have a positive attitude, eat healthy, take supplements that strengthen the immune system and exercise as often as possible. &lt;br /&gt;In the other pictures I am with my son Mateo and with my brother Mariano and my daughter Lucia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you to all who had been praying for my recovery and are supporting me to keep going on with my journey of recovery with a lot of strength as I did from the first day I started with all this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SArsF--aaAI/AAAAAAAAB9M/r_oRd_ecrRM/s1600-h/GOYA_ES_SALUD_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SArsF--aaAI/AAAAAAAAB9M/r_oRd_ecrRM/s320/GOYA_ES_SALUD_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191221108046194690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hola, aca estoy en California, venimos teniendo un clima primaveral buenisimo, sol todos los dias. Vi a mi doctor hace un mes atras y no me hicieron ninguna infiltracion. Me dijo que no es necesario ahora, que eso si, tengo que continuar tomando mis pastillas todos los dias como parte de la quimioterapia que ya son bastante fuertes. Sigo efectos secundarios de la quimioterapia pero nada que ver a los que tenia cuando me daban tambien las infiltraciones. A mi doctor lo note mucho mas abierto conmigo esta vez que hace un mes cuando me dio los resultados de los ultimos estudios. Me dijo que los resultados de los ultimos estudios habian sido excelentes y que no se veian seniales de esta enfermedad. Le pregunte por cuanto mas tiempo tenia que seguir con la quimioterapia y me dijo que se iba a determinar eso despues de los proximos estudios dentro de unas 3 semanas mas y que si no aparecia nada mas que iba a seguir por 6 o menos meses y despues parariamos con todo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SB4wAY1ACUI/AAAAAAAAB98/oVyV38rab9Y/s1600-h/IMG_8854.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SB4wAY1ACUI/AAAAAAAAB98/oVyV38rab9Y/s320/IMG_8854.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196643803255015746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Este mes tuve la oportunidad de hacer windsurf en el mar ya que hubieron unos dias de buen viento y olas. Fue mi primera vez haciendo windsurf aca en California desde el comienzo de mi tratamiento. Sigo manteniendo mi rutina de actividad fisica y comiendo lo mas sano posible y no aflojo nunca con mi medicina alternativa que voy a continuar aunque corte con la quimioterapia algun dia que es lo que me aconsejan hacer para mantener mi sistema inmunologico fuerte.&lt;br /&gt; En una de las fotos estoy con mi medico oncologo, el Doctor Shibata, en mi ultima consulta de hace un mes atras. Ese dia nos sacaron tambien una foto para hacerme un nota para la revista del Hospital que va a salir alrededor de Septiembre. &lt;br /&gt;En esta nota me preguntaron sobre mi vida en general, sobre mi caso, mi recuperacion, mi fe, mi alimentacion junto con suplementos vitaminicos y mi actividad fisica. Espero que a travez de esta nota pueda ayudar a otros pacientes a tener muchas esperanzas y no rendirse nunca y que sepan que se pueden curar tambien.&lt;br /&gt;En las otras estoy con mi hijo Mateo y en las otras con mi hermano Mariano y mi hija Lucia.&lt;br /&gt; Gracias a todos los que estuvieron y siguen orando por mi recuperacion y me apoyan para seguir tirando para adelante como desde el primer dia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Hasta la proxima. Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4979628536061490564?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4979628536061490564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4979628536061490564' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4979628536061490564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4979628536061490564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/04/6-de-mayo-may-6th.html' title='6 DE MAYO.    MAY 6th'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/SB4rEo1ACTI/AAAAAAAAB90/FPzHYwvmueI/s72-c/IMG_8839.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-380826501520538167</id><published>2008-04-19T22:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T21:13:03.269-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ABRIL</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-380826501520538167?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/380826501520538167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=380826501520538167' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/380826501520538167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/380826501520538167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/04/abril-soleado.html' title='ABRIL'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1083678872575107533</id><published>2008-03-24T11:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-26T00:23:26.791-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GREAT NEWS.   BUENISIMAS NOTICIAS</title><content type='html'>Hace mas de una semana que me dieron los resultados de mis ultimos estudios y dieron que no se ve nada de cancer en ninguna de las partes donde lo tenia. Lo del pulmon desaparecio, lo mismo lo del higado ya no se ve, el tumor en el esofago y estomago ya no esta y todos los ganglios linfaticos se ven bien. &lt;br /&gt; Igualmente mis medicos toman esto con mucha cautela y decidieron seguir dandome quimioterapia y en dos semanas mas vuelvo a ver a mi oncologo y en un mes y medio mas me vuelven a hacer los mismos estudios. La quimioterapia que estoy haciendo ahora es mucho mas leve que antes, hace ya dos meses que no me hacen ninguna infiltracion, lo unico que estoy haciendo ahora es tomar pastillas todos los dias que son parte de la quimioterapia. &lt;br /&gt; En unos dias mas vuelvo a escribir mas para contar como vengo viviendo todo esto desde que recibi estos increibles resultados. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                    Federico &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got great news last week when I heard the results from my last tests, it came out that nothing was seen. In my lungs the 4 nodules disappeared, there is nothing in the liver, there is no evidence of the main tumor in my esophagaus and stomach and nothing in the lymph nodes. Anyways I have to get more chemotheraphy and I'll see my doctor in 3 more weeks and in 2 more months I am goning to have all the tests again. &lt;br /&gt; The chemotherapy I'm getting is lighter now, I haven't had an infusion in 2 months.&lt;br /&gt; I am only taking pills everyday for chemotherapy. &lt;br /&gt; In a few days I am going to write more about how I'm living these days since I got these incredible results. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                              Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1083678872575107533?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1083678872575107533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1083678872575107533' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1083678872575107533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1083678872575107533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/03/great-news-buenisimas-noticias.html' title='GREAT NEWS.   BUENISIMAS NOTICIAS'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-6836557964757387464</id><published>2008-03-07T19:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-08T00:08:02.687-08:00</updated><title type='text'>7 de Marzo, March 7th</title><content type='html'>Hace dos dias me hicieron dos estudios en el Hospital City of Hope.  Resulta que me iban a hacer una infiltracion la semana pasada pero mi oncologo prefirio que la postergaramos para hacer estos estudios primero y  ver como esta todo por dentro y despues decidir como seguir.  El Jueves que viene me dan los resultados de estos dos estudios. Me tengo muchisima fe para los resultados. &lt;br /&gt; Fisicamente me vengo sintiendo muy bien, siento que mi cuerpo se va recuperando cada vez mas. Siempre sigo firme con mi nutricion comiendo en lo mayor que pueda organico y tomando todos los dias mis suplementos vitaminicos y medicamentos naturales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Buen fin de semana para todos. Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two days ago I had  2 tests, a CT scan and a MRI. I am going to have the results next Thursday. I was going to have an infusion last week but my oncologist preferred to postpone it and have these 2 tests done and then decide how to continue with the treatment. I have a lot of faith for these results. &lt;br /&gt; Physically I've been feeling pretty good, I feel that my body is recovering more and more from the last infusion. I am still firm with my nutrition. I am trying to eat mostly organic and still taking all my supplements and natural medicine. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good weekend to all. Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-6836557964757387464?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/6836557964757387464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=6836557964757387464' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6836557964757387464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6836557964757387464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/03/7-de-marzo.html' title='7 de Marzo, March 7th'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-6363784404720386447</id><published>2008-02-17T11:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-07T19:35:16.586-08:00</updated><title type='text'>February 17th</title><content type='html'>I've been feeling very good for the last month. In Argentina I never stopped taking my medicine for chimoteraphy and everything I am doing with alternative medicine.&lt;br /&gt;I had the greatest time there with my family and friends. It was very productive to meet with one of the best oncologist in Buenos Aires, doctor Alberto Caniparoli. &lt;br /&gt;He approved everything I am doing here in California with my treatment and he encouraged me a lot to keep going on with a positive mind and to never give up. He checked all my tests I got done in California, he explained everything to me and  gave me some great advice if I need to have the surgery in the future.  He also suggested to take a nap everyday, and said that it is totally proven that people who takes naps live a longer and healthier life. &lt;br /&gt;My side effects lately had been fatigue and sencibility and dryness in my hands and feet.&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow I am getting another infusion at the City of Hope Hospital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Good week to all. Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me vengo sintiendo muy bien en este ultimo mes. Estando en Argentina nunca pare ni un dia de tomar mis remedios de quimioterapia y todo lo que vengo haciendo con medicina alternativa. Mi esposa, mis hijos y yo la pasamos muy bien en Argentina con toda nuestra familia ahi y muchos de mis amigasos. Yo personalmente me vine con muchas mas fuerzas de alla, fue importantisimo para mi estar con mis seres queridos especialmente ahora que todavia estoy pasando por el tratamiento de quimioterapia. &lt;br /&gt;Fue muy productivo ver a uno de los mejores oncologos de Buenos Aires, el doctor Alberto Caniparoli que voy todos los reportes medicos de mi Hospiltal aca en Estados Unidos y me explico todo muy claramente y apoyo totalmente todo lo que me estan haciendo con el tratamiento y me dio mucho animo para que no baje nunca los brazos con todo lo que me estan haciendo y que haga todo lo que me indiquen los medicos, que confie plenamente, que crea en ellos y me dio a entender que estoy tratandome en uno de los mejores Hospitales del mundo. Tambien me dio algunos buenos consejos y me dio mucha tranquilad en caso de que me tuviese que operar. Me sugirio que durmiera una siesta todos los dias, me dijo que esta compravado que las siesta es buenisma para la salud. &lt;br /&gt; Maniana me hacen otra infiltracion en el Hospital City of Hope. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     Buena semana para todos. Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-6363784404720386447?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/6363784404720386447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=6363784404720386447' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6363784404720386447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6363784404720386447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/02/back-again-in-california.html' title='February 17th'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-6917442004450152895</id><published>2008-02-03T07:41:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-29T07:08:56.068-08:00</updated><title type='text'>February 3rd</title><content type='html'>Estoy a dos semanas de la ultima infiltracion de quimioterapia sintiendome muy bien, &lt;br /&gt; mis padres nos invitaron para que vinieramos a Argentina y mi doctor me dio permiso para viajar y quedarme por un mes y tengo que estar de vuelta en California para el 26 de Febrero para otra infiltracion de quimioterapia. &lt;br /&gt;Llegamos a Argentina ayer al mediodia y aca estoy con mi esposa y mis hijos en la casa de mis padres. A mi me va a hacer muy bien esta estadia en mi patria especialmente por lo que estoy pasando y poder estar junto a mi familia aca en Buenos Aires y ver a muchos amigos que extranio mucho. Siento que estar aca me va a ayudar a tener una mas pronta recuperacion. Pienso que la parte emocional es muy importante en todo esto. &lt;br /&gt; De paso me traje todos los estudios en CDs que me hicieron en California para que los vea un amigo oncologo de mis padres de muy buena reputacion aca en Buenos Aires&lt;br /&gt;y tener otra opinion y en mi idioma.&lt;br /&gt; El viaje a Argentina fue bastante largo ya que costo hacer dormir a nuestros hijos en el avion y nos tuvieron despiertos casi toda la noche y con mi esposa no descansamos nada asi que aca estamos tratando de recuperar horas de suenio con algunas siestas. &lt;br /&gt; Fue muy emocionante ver a mi Papa y a mi Mama en el aeropuerto junto con mi abuela y uno de mis mejores amigos que tambien nos fue a buscar. Mi hermano Mariano esta viajando hacia aca desde el Oeste del pais para vernos y pasar unos dias con nosotros. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hace un poco mas de 6 meses cuando me diagnosticaron este cancer los medicos me dieron un 1 por ciento de probalidades de sobrevivir por el grado de cancer que tenia y haberme hecho metastasis en varias partes del cuerpo. &lt;br /&gt; Ese 1 por ciento yo lo transforme en 100 por ciento desde el primer dia que me entere de esto. Lo pude hacer asi gracias a mi fe en Jesucristo, El fue quien me saco el miedo desde el primer dia, El que me hace sentir esta paz interior y tanta felicidad cada dia. A El le debo toda esta fuerza que siento todos los dias. El es mi medicina principal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                    Que esten pasando una muy buena semana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                 Federico &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It´s been one week since my last infusion and i´m feeling really good. My parents invited us to come to Argentina and my doctor gave his permission to travel so here we are for one month and I have to be back for my next infusion on February 26th.&lt;br /&gt;We arrived yesterday after a long flight. So here I am with my wife and kids in my parents house. I feel so good to be here in my country especially for what I am going through and be able to be with my argentinian family  and a lot of my best friends here in Buenos Aires who I miss a lot.&lt;br /&gt; I feel being here is going to help me to recover sooner. I think the emotional part is very important in all this. &lt;br /&gt; I brought all my reports and CDs from all my exams in California to show them to a oncologist friend of my parents with a great reputation here in Buenos Aires so I can have another opinion and in my own language. &lt;br /&gt; The flight to Argentina felt very long becasue it was hard to get the kids to sleep and they kept us awake the whole night so my wife and I didn`t rest at all  and we are trying to take naps here to recover from this flight. &lt;br /&gt;It was very emotional to see my Mother and my Dad at the airport together with my grandma and one of my best friends. My brother Mariano is coming back to Buenos Aires from the west side of the country and he wants to spend some days with us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arond 7 months ago I was diagnosed with this cancer which my doctors gave me a 1 percent chance of survival, I was in an advanced stage, it was in different parts in my body. &lt;br /&gt;That 1 percent I turned it to 100 percent since the first day I knew about it. I was able to handle it and take this all posivitvly  thanks to my faith in Jesus Christ, my God who feeds me with his grace. &lt;br /&gt;He took away the fear from the first day, he makes me feel everyday this peace, joy and strengh. He is my main medicine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Hope you are all having a great week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                        Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-6917442004450152895?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/6917442004450152895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=6917442004450152895' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6917442004450152895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6917442004450152895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/02/argentina.html' title='February 3rd'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4323735236604581382</id><published>2008-01-18T11:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-24T10:38:31.616-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Un dia despues de la infiltracion de quimioterapia. One day after the infusion</title><content type='html'>Hola a todos, ayer me hicieron otra infltracion de quimioterapia, todo salio bien, pase todo el dia en el Hospital, los resultados del estudio de mi sangre fueron buenos, mi oncologo esta muy optimista por como va progresando todo asi que me quiere dar un poco mas de un mes hasta hacerme la proxima infiltracion asi mi cuerpo se recupera un poco de las drogas de la quimioterapia, normalmente me hacen las infiltraciones cada 3 semanas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiero contarles lo que mas afecta mucho cada vez que voy al Hospital, ver a tantos ninios con cancer, ninios desde un anio para adelante, yo tengo una hija de 3 anios y un varon de 10 meses y creo que por eso es que me toque tanto y me de tanta tristeza cada vez que veo ninios pasando por algo asi y no me olvido ni un dia de agradecerle a Dios por tener a mis dos hijos sanos y a mi esposa tambien. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No queria pasar esta oportunidad para volver a repetir lo importante que es hacerce estudios en caso de que sientan alguna molestia en la zona del esofago cuando comen, especialmente cuando tragan o si tiene reflujo de acido hacerse ver y no optar por los medicamentos baratos que nos quieren vender por propaganda como la Hepatalgina u otros que no se el nombre que hay que saber bien que efectos colaterales tienen, hay soluciones mas sanas. La nutrion es un factor inportantisimo para evitar la acidez estomacal que puede llevar a un cancer de esofago con el tiempo. Cuidado los que son adictos al mate o al cafe que son muy acidicos. Dicen aca los doctores que los dos causantes principales de cancer de esofago son el fumar tabaco especialmente por el papel del cigarrillo y el alcohol, obviamente en exceso. &lt;br /&gt;Mi cancer se origino en el estomago justo en la entrada de este, por eso no se lo considerada el mio un cancer de esofago, compromete al esofago por hacer crecido desde es parte del estomago hacia arriba, por eso mi cancer se lo denomina algo asi como cancer gastro-esofago, en ingles lo llaman Gastroesophagil cancer y es dificil determinar la causa, se puede haber dado por distintos factores, genetico, alguna anomalia en mi higado, quizas alguna comida que no se cual, por las dudas corte con las comidas mas acidicas, o por como mi fe me hace creer que Dios permitio que esto me pasara por alguna buena razon. Ya me pasaron varias bendiciones desde que me diagnosticaron esto.    &lt;br /&gt;La medicina preventiva es importantisima hoy en dia especialmente, sepan que el cancer de esofago es uno de los canceres que cada vez se esta dando mas aca en Estados Unidos y en muchos paises mas. En Argentina se por ejemplo que se esta dando muchisimo. &lt;br /&gt;Sepan que una endoscopia es el unico estudio que puede dar con certeza un diagnostico perfecto. No le tengan miedo, hoy se da anestecia para hacerlo y no se siente nada. Yo tuve miedo la primera ves que me lo hicieron porque nadie me habia dicho nada lo simple que era y tenia solo referencias de gente que se lo habian hecho con poco de anestecia en la garganta y que habian sufrido mucho y tenia esa idea. Hoy cambio la cosa, ya no se hace como antes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El 21 de este mes es mi cumpleanios, cumplo 38.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Espero que todos esten teniendo un muy buen arranque en este anio nuevo, que vivan este anio con muchisimo amor, tengan fe,&lt;br /&gt; Dios existe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                     Un abrazo a todos. Fede&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello everyone, yesterday I got another infusion of chemotherapy. Everything went fine, I spent almost the whole day at the Hospital with Marci while my mother-in-law watched our kids. &lt;br /&gt;The results of my blood test were good and my oncologist is very optimistic of the great progress I'm getting with the treatment.  He decided to give me some time to for my body to recover until the next infusion, so in more than one month I am going to get the next infusion, normally I get one every 3 weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to share with you something that affects me a lot. Every time I go to the Hospital I see a lot of kids with cancer. Some with no hair, others who look very ill. And it is so sad to see the children and their families fighting cancer. I see kids from 1 year old and older. I have a son of 10 months and a daughter of 3 years, so I think that is why this touches me so deep and makes me very sad every time I see them knowing what they are going through and I don't forget one day to thank God for having my kids healthy and my wife too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also don't want to let go the opportunity to tell you again how important it is to have a check up if you have any strange feeling  in your throat or chest when eating, especially when swallowing or if you have some acid reflex. Also, don't go for the cheap products for acid reflex that are sold at pharmacies that have bad side effects, there are healthier solutions.  Good nutrition is a very important factor to avoid acid reflex that could lead to  cancer in time. Be careful whoever is addicted to coffee because it is so acidic. &lt;br /&gt;Here the doctors say that the main causes of esophageal cancer are cigarettes, alcohol and acid refulx. I didn't have any risk factors for this cancer. My cancer was originated at the entrance of the stomach, that is why mine is not considered esopahageal cancer, it is called gastroesophageal junction cancer, and it grew up taking part of the esophagus. It is difficult to determine the cause of my cancer, it could be genetic, from an anomaly in my liver, maybe from some foods, or envoirnomental causes. Or with my  faith I believe that God permitted this in my life for a good reason. So many blessings have occurred to me already since I was diagnosed with this cancer. &lt;br /&gt;  Preventive medicine is so important nowadays. Esophageal cancer&lt;br /&gt; is one of the fastest growing cancers in United States and in more countries in the world.&lt;br /&gt;An endoscopy is the only exam that can give an accurate diagnosis.Don't be afraid if you need one, today it is&lt;br /&gt; given with anesthesia. I was afraid the first time i got one because no one told me how simple it was and I had a reference of people that got it before with anesthesia only in the throat and they suffered a lot. Today it is so different how it is done, it is not like before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope everyone is having a very good start of this new year, live this year with a lot of love, have faith, God exists. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until the next blog. Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4323735236604581382?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4323735236604581382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4323735236604581382' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4323735236604581382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4323735236604581382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/01/un-dia-despues-de-la-infiltracion-de.html' title='Un dia despues de la infiltracion de quimioterapia. One day after the infusion'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4801128832326069533</id><published>2008-01-02T18:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T10:12:10.227-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Year</title><content type='html'>I got another infusion last Thursday, this one has been a hard one but tolerable,&lt;br /&gt;today I am feeling a little better with more strength, I also got the results from the last test I had 2 weeks ago, a CT scan, and everything got smaller ! This is giving me even more hope now. I am still having 4 tiny nodules in one of my lungs and the 4 got smaller comparing to the tests I got 3 months ago. &lt;br /&gt;In 2 more weeks I am getting another infusion, the doctors want to keep going on with chimoteraphy and don't want to talk about surgery for now.&lt;br /&gt;Now I am having side effects in my hands, feet, my stomach is very sensitive and I've been feeling a lot of fatige but still trying to exercise anyways.&lt;br /&gt;This is all for now. Until the next post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPANISH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me hicieron este Jueves pasado una infiltracion de quimioterapia, la vengo sintiendo bastante pesada pero tolerable y hoy me desperte sintiendome mejor con mas fuerza. Tambien me dieron los resultados del examen de hace 2 semanas y dio que se achico mas todo ! Esto me da mas esperanza todavia. Sigo teniendo 4 nodulos muy pequenios en uno de los pulmones que se achicaron mas comparando los examenes que me habian hecho hace 3 meses. &lt;br /&gt;En dos semanas mas me van a hacer otra infiltracion, los doctores quieren seguir haciendome quimioterapia y no quieren hablar por ahora de operacion. &lt;br /&gt;Ahora estoy teniendo efectos secundarios de la quimioterapia en mis manos, en mis pies, tengo muy sensible el estomago y vengo teniendo mucha fatiga pero igualmente trato de hacer ejercicio. &lt;br /&gt;Esto es todo por ahora. Hasta el proximo post. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                  Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4801128832326069533?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4801128832326069533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4801128832326069533' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4801128832326069533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4801128832326069533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-year.html' title='New Year'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-6231653321323795163</id><published>2007-12-26T16:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:14:13.412-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Beautiful sunny Wenesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/R3lYP_7fR9I/AAAAAAAABvU/5LqoZSiUEr0/s1600-h/navidad.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/R3lYP_7fR9I/AAAAAAAABvU/5LqoZSiUEr0/s320/navidad.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150244680757102546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello, since I got my last infusion 3 weeks ago I've been feeling very good.  Everything went fine, so far the easiest infusion of all, I didn't have any anoing side effect so this let me stay active since that day. &lt;br /&gt;I got 2 tests last Friday, a CT scan and a ECO for my heart, I don't have the results yet but I suppose tomorow before I get another infusion my doctor would let me know how was it. &lt;br /&gt;The dosis of the infusion is still the same as when I started 6 months ago, this was my ninth infusion. &lt;br /&gt;Regarding my nutrition, I am still eating everything organic and I continue doing also alternative medicine combined with suplements of vitamins, all this leaded by my omeopath or holistic doctor here in California in combination with my oncologist from City of Hope. &lt;br /&gt;Something I recomend to whoever is going trough any serious illness is to bealive in alternative medicine and it can be combined with the traditional medicine o treat it only with alternative medicine. &lt;br /&gt;Unfortunally the alternative medicine is not promoted as it should be because the traditional medicine is controled by the farmaceutical comapnies that have so much power y the traditional medicien ignores the big progress of the alternative medicine when what would be the best is that both integrate together, combining both woulfd be the best for everyone,&lt;br /&gt;and this only depends of us to don't support only the traditinal medicine and we should start to inform ourselfs and pass the information to other of what is going on with the alternative and warn others of the big risks of a lot of drugs of traditional medicine.   A lot of drugs that are sold to the public at any farmacy have a lot of side effects, for example the famous Ibuprofen, one of its side effects damage the liver, I know a lot of people that take it normally to stop pains and they get addicted to it.  The alternative offers suplements for back pain for example, the most tipical pain in most of the people today&lt;br /&gt;and without any side effects. &lt;br /&gt;My brother and another friend were told form the doctors that they have to get surchary for the herni disc and they said that was the only solution they had for their problem, they both saw the same doctor for ther alternative medicine and with only one shot of vitamins it took away the pain and in a couple of days and they didin't have to get surchary and it has been a lot of years since then, I was witness of my brother recovery becasue I took him to this doctor and saw how he got better. &lt;br /&gt;So we have to be very carefull with traditional medicine. With all this I don't mean I am totally against traditional medicine but what it is not right is that how much ignores what it is going on with alternative medicine. &lt;br /&gt;Maybe some don't know about the big danger of the famous Flu Shot that is gien today to most of the americans and specially kids, it has mercury and some lead, it is poison for our bodies, it is terrible that the docotrs know about it and they recommend it to all of their patiens, what a crime !  When tere are natural supplements with vitamins for kids and for older ones to streghten the inmune system against coulds and flu. And the same way for some ther vaccines that kids get them in their first 4 years that have lead or aluminum. So parents find out good before you let the doctor inyect those vaccines to your kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You could be thinking now if I am saying all this why I am treating my cancer with tradicional medicine ? Well, it wasn't an easy decision to take, it was hard to decide what to do, I had the pressior of my family on one side, in the beginiing I just wanted to go only with alternative medicine, I knew cases of people who cures their cancers with the alternative but I ended taking the decision of treat it with both medicines, something that today I think it was a logical decicion, specially for how advanced was my cancer, stage 4 (metastasis). So for own decicion I am treating it with an integrated medicine, a combination of both medicines, thanks to the agreement of my oncologist at City of Hope, he says there is no problem of &lt;br /&gt;doing both ways at the same time and since there has been a very good progress with the whole treatment, my oncogist doesn't want me to stop doing alternative treatment together with his treatment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started with the alternative in the begining before I came to California, my idea was before starting with the treatment here in California, to ask the doctors for a 4 or 6 months trial to see if the cancer started to get reduced with the alternative medicine, but I had pressure from my family, the wanted me to start with the chimoteraphy the sooner possible, so I didn't have the oportunity to know what could have happened treating me only with the alternative. Today I regreat for not beeing stronger back then and made the doctors let me have those 6 weeeks of trial with the alternative medicine and see what would've happened.&lt;br /&gt;But now I have to keep looking forward and have faith that I took the correct decision with all this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all have a beautiful Christmas and wish you all the best for the 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-6231653321323795163?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/6231653321323795163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=6231653321323795163' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6231653321323795163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/6231653321323795163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/12/beautiful-sunny-wenesday_26.html' title='Beautiful sunny Wenesday'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/R3lYP_7fR9I/AAAAAAAABvU/5LqoZSiUEr0/s72-c/navidad.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-3289753574564330844</id><published>2007-12-26T16:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:14:13.595-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Miercoles, un dia antes de otra infiltracion (Diciembre 26)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/R3lW0v7fR8I/AAAAAAAABvM/yHrcpmGy-aI/s1600-h/DSCN1340.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/R3lW0v7fR8I/AAAAAAAABvM/yHrcpmGy-aI/s320/DSCN1340.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150243113094039490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hola, maniana me hacen otra infiltracion de quimioterapia, este Viernes pasado me hicieron dos examenes, todavia no se los resultados, quizas maniana mi oncologo me los de antes de la infiltracion. Desde la ultima infiltracion hace 3 semanas me vengo sintiendo bastante bien, salvo mis manos y los pies que se me secan mucho por el efecto secundario de una de los remedios, el resto todo bien. &lt;br /&gt;Pase una muy buena Navidad en compania de toda la familia en California, estuvimos todo el Lunes y todo el Martes todos juntos. &lt;br /&gt;Ni bien sepa los resultados escribo otra vez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Espero que hayan tenido una hermosisima Navidad y les deseo a todos lo mejor para el 2008. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-3289753574564330844?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/3289753574564330844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=3289753574564330844' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/3289753574564330844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/3289753574564330844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/12/un-dia-antes-de-otra-infiltracion.html' title='Miercoles, un dia antes de otra infiltracion (Diciembre 26)'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/R3lW0v7fR8I/AAAAAAAABvM/yHrcpmGy-aI/s72-c/DSCN1340.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-955262472112821634</id><published>2007-12-09T17:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-18T11:33:17.689-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Domingo de sol</title><content type='html'>Hola, aca estoy quedandome en lo de mi hermana desde el Jueves que me hicieron la infiltracion que me habian postergado por una semana. Todo salio muy bien, hasta ahora la infiltracion mas facil de todas, no tuve ningun efecto secundario molesto asi que me permitio seguir activo desde ese mismo dia. La dosis de infiltracion sigue siendo la misma desde que empece hace 5 meses, esta fue la novena infiltracion.&lt;br /&gt;  En cuanto a mi alimentacion sigo  comiendo todo organico y siempre firme a la medicina alternativa combinada con suplementos vitaminicos, todo esto dirigido  por  mi homeopata aca en California en combinacion con mi oncologo en el Hospital City of Hope.  Algo que recomiendo a cualquiera que este pasando por cualquier tipo de enfermedad, que crean en la medicina alternativa que se puede combinar perfectamente con la medicina tradicional o convencional como quieran llamarla o tratarse solo con medicina alternativa.   &lt;br /&gt;Lamentablemente la medicina alternativa no esta promocionada como deberia ser porque que la medicina tradicional   esta controlada por las companias farmaceuticas que tienen mucho poder y esta ignora los grandes avances de la medicina alternativa cuando lo mejor seria que las dos se integraran, creo que este es el futuro de la medicina,  una medicina integrada donde se combinen las dos medicinas, y esto depende de nosotros de no apoyar solamente a la medicina tradicional y que empecemos a informarnos y pasar la informacion sobre lo que realmente esta pasando con lo alternativo y alertar sobre los grandes riesgos de muchos medicamentos de la medicina tradicional.  Muchos de los medicamentos que se venden al publico en cualquier farmacia  tienen efecos secundarios,  por ejemplo el famoso Ibuprofeno, conozco muchisma gente que lo toma y que es adicta, uno de los tantos efectos secundarios del Ibuprofeno es que dania el higado,  La medicina alernativa ofrece suplementos para dolores como el de espalda  que no tienen ningun efecto secundario. A mi hermano y a otro amigo mio le habian dicho los doctores que se tenian que operar de hernia de disco y que era la unica solucion que tenian, ellos dos vieron al mismo medico volcado hacia la medicina alternativa y con solo una inyeccion de vitaminas les saco el dolor y no tuvieron que operarse y ya van varios anios de esto, yo fui testigo porque lo lleve a mi hermano a lo de este doctor y vi como mejoro.  &lt;br /&gt;Con esto no quiero decir que este totalmente en contra de la medicina tradicional, lo que no va es que ignore tanto lo que sta pasando con la medicina alternativa.   No se si saben que la famosa vacuna contra la gripe que se le da hoy a casi la mayoria de los ninios en Estados Unidos tiene mercurio, veneno para el cuerpo, terrible que los medicos lo sepan y la recomienden a todos sus pacientes, que crimen, cuando hay suplementos vitaminicos naturales para los ninios y para los mas grandes tambien para evitar una gripe. Y asi muchas de las inyecciones que se le dan a los ninios especialmente los primeros 4 anios de vida tienen mercurio, plomo o aluminio, asi que averiguen padres bien antes de dejar que les den las inyecciones a sus hijos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para mi tratarme con medicina tradicional no fue una decision muy facil de tomar, me costo mucho decidirme, tenia por un lado la presion de mi familia, yo me volcaba en un principio por ir solamente con la medicina alternativa, conozco casos de gente que se habia curado de otros canceres con lo alternativo pero termine tomando la decision de tratarme con las dos medicinas juntas, cosa que me parece hoy  logica esta decision que tome, especialmente sabiendo lo avanzado que estaba mi cancer, estado 4 (Metastasis).   Asi que por decision propia estoy tratandome con una medicina integrada, una combinacion de las dos.  &lt;br /&gt;Como habia empezado en un principio con lo alternativo mi idea era que los doctores me dejaran probar por  4 o 6 semanas  para ver si se reducia el cancer asi, pero me presionaron ellos tambien para que empezara lo antes posible con la quimioterapia y no tuve la oportunidad de poder ver que podria haber ocurrido tratandome solo con la alternativo, hoy me arrepiento de no haber sido mas fuerte para haber hecho a los doctores hacerme los examenes al principio y otra vez a las 4 o 6 semanas  sin empezar con la quimioterapia y ver que ocurria. Pero ahora tengo que seguir adelanter asi y tener fe que tome la decision correcta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;QUE TENGAN UNA MUY BUENA SEMANA &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hasta el proxino post.  Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-955262472112821634?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/955262472112821634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=955262472112821634' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/955262472112821634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/955262472112821634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/12/domingo-de-sol.html' title='Domingo de sol'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-674666337589477381</id><published>2007-12-03T17:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-03T17:46:21.684-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Infiltracion postergada. Infusion postponed</title><content type='html'>La infiltracion que me iban a hacer el Jueves me la postergaron para el proximo Jueves debido a que estaba baja la cantidad de mis globulos blancos y si me hacian&lt;br /&gt;esta infiltracion ese dia me iba a bajar mucho mas. Asi que me vino bien que no me hicieron esta infiltracion  ya que me vengo sintiendo bien y puedo aprovechar para seguir haciendo deportes estos dias.&lt;br /&gt;Escribo denuevo despues del Jueves para contar como me fue en la infiltracion de quimioterapia.  Federico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENGLISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The infusion I was going to get last Thursday was postponed for next Thursday due to my white blood cell count being low, if I had my infusion that day it would've dropped it even more. So I am taking good advantage of these days that I am felling good to keep doing some sports everyday. &lt;br /&gt;I'll write again after Thursday to tell how I am doing after the infusion of chemotherapy. Federico&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-674666337589477381?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/674666337589477381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=674666337589477381' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/674666337589477381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/674666337589477381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/12/infiltracion-postergada-infusion.html' title='Infiltracion postergada. Infusion postponed'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1735551601371772641</id><published>2007-11-27T22:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T06:21:42.571-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Martes por la noche</title><content type='html'>Aca estoy en la casa de mis suegros, todos ya se fueron a dormir, aca estoy tranquilo en la cocina, escribo unas lineas y me voy a dormir.&lt;br /&gt; Pasado maniana, Jueves, me hacen otra infiltracion, me voy a quedar en lo de mi hermana nuevamente por unos 4 dias para recuperarme bien y despues sentirme mejor con mis hijos. &lt;br /&gt;Despues del Jueves vuelvo a escribir para contar como me fue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                  Fede&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1735551601371772641?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1735551601371772641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1735551601371772641' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1735551601371772641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1735551601371772641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/11/martes-por-la-noche.html' title='Martes por la noche'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-990484459702476774</id><published>2007-11-13T21:28:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T13:12:46.979-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Otra infiltracion</title><content type='html'>Hola, aca estoy quedandome en la casa de mi hermana despues de la infiltracion de quimioterapia que tuve este Jueves, mi esposa me dejo en el Hospital a la maniana temprano y mi hermana me fue a buscar y me voy a quedar en su casa hasta que me sienta mejor para estar nuevamente con mis hijos. La estoy pasando de primera aca en la casa de mi hermana Caro, mi cuniado Chase y mi sobrino Kai, jugamos mucho al metegol que tienen aca en la casa, tocamos musica, disfruto comiendo las exquisitas comidas que hace mi hermana, salimos a caminar por este hermoso barrio y les hago algun trabajito en su huerta.&lt;br /&gt;Mi doctor oncologo me reviso antes de que me hicieran la infiltracion y me vio bien, quiere seguir con la quimioterapia hasta Enero y ahi hacerme todos los estudios nuevamente y ver como seguimos a partir de como vean los resultados de esos estudios. &lt;br /&gt;Hace un poco maas de una semana fue Halloween aca y estuvo muy divertido, disfrazamos a Lucia y Mateo, Lucia de princesa y Mateo de Zapallo, el famoso Pumkin de Halloween. Fuimos al colegio de Lucia donde prepararon todo para los chicos con muchos juegos, todos tenian que ir disfrasados, Lucia se divertio muchisimo y nosotros tambien. Despues volvimos a la casa de mis suegros donde nos estamos quedando para seguir con la tradicional costumbre de Halloween de ir de casa en casa con lso chicos disfrazados a buscar golosinas y tambien esperar que vengan a nuestra casa otros chicos tambien a buscar golosinas. &lt;br /&gt;El fin de semana pasado fuimos a San Diego a quedarnos a la casa de unos amigos nuestros, nos invitaron a ir a Seaworld, el mundo marino de San Diego, estuvo muy bueno y cuando salimos de Seaworld fuimos a la estacion de bomberos de mi amigo y nos mostro toda la estacion por dentro, cenamos con el resto de los bomberos y nos llevaron a mi, Lucia, Marcia y Mateo a dar una vuelta en el camion de bomberos por toda la zona, nos hicieron un tour, en un momento pusieron la sirena para que Lucia la escuchara y viera las luces de la sirena que reflejaban en las casas que ibamos pasando, si hubiesen tenido un llamado de emergencia hubiesemos ido con ellos, cuando volvimos a la estacion a los 15 minutos tuvieron un llamado de emergencia y en un minuto ya se habian ido con el camion y nosotros solo los vimos desde la estacion como se iban.&lt;br /&gt;Ahora Lucia tiene una gran historia para contarle a toda la familia aca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     Hasta la proxima. Fede y su familia&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-990484459702476774?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/990484459702476774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=990484459702476774' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/990484459702476774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/990484459702476774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/11/otra-infiltracion.html' title='Otra infiltracion'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-5032125660122324952</id><published>2007-11-13T21:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T13:13:48.280-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Another infusion</title><content type='html'>Hello everybody ! I am here at my siter's house again after I got a new infusion yesterday, my wife dropped me at the hospital early in the morning and my sister went to pick me up, I am going to stay here until I start feeling better and the probably on Saturday my wife is going to pick me up to be back with her and the kids. I am having a great time here with her, my brother in law Chase and my nephew Kai, playing a lot of foosball with Chase, they have the best foosball table, we are playing music together, Caro is cooking  incredible meals,  we go for nice walks in this beautiful neighborhood and I  work in her garden.&lt;br /&gt;The doctor checked me up before the infusion and he found everything good, my blood is good, I gained more weight, he decided to continue with the treatment until January and then we are going to do all the tests again and then decide what is next.&lt;br /&gt;We had a fun day on Halloween, Lucia was a princess and Mateo a pumpkin, we went in the evening to Lucia's pre- school where all the kids and their parents went and it was so fun to see all the kids with costumes and some parents too, they had a lot of games for the kids. Then we went back home and we continued there with the trick  or treating. &lt;br /&gt;Last weekend we went to visit  some very good friends of ours in San Diego, Jamie and Pam, we stayed at their house in Escondido, they invitided us to go to Sea world, we enjoyed it a lot and then in the evening we went to Jamie's fire station in San Diego. That was a great experience, they showed us the whole station inside, we had dinner with all the firemen and then they took me and my family for a ride in one of the fire engines around some nice neighborhoods, they played the siren for us, Lucia was the one that enjoyed it the most. If they got an emergency call we would've experienced that too but they didn't get any while we were cruising in town. When we got back to the station, we got out of the truck and in 15 minutes they got a emergency call and in one minute they were out of the station in the truck. Now Lucia has a big story to tell friends and family. &lt;br /&gt;  Until next time, Fede and Family&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-5032125660122324952?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/5032125660122324952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=5032125660122324952' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5032125660122324952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5032125660122324952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/11/hello-everybody-i-am-here-at-my-siters.html' title='Another infusion'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-2066591518748869286</id><published>2007-10-19T12:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-29T20:20:44.331-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Hola a todos, aca paso a darles las ultimas novedades, ayer tuve una nueva infiltracion de quimioterapia, todo salio bien, antes de hacermela vi a mi oncologo y me vio bien con buen peso, me dice que todo va para adelante, que sigamos asi con los mismos remedios y que le siga dando a la actividad fisica como lo vengo haciendo. Hace 3 dias fui a surfear despues de meses que no entraba al mar, fue una alegria inmensa, los medicos me dieron permiso para empezar a ir al mar otra vez, ven que tengo las defensas bien fuertes asi que no ven que haya ningun problema, eso si, surfee con un traje de neoprene de invierno que hacia anios que no usaba. &lt;br /&gt;Por ahora ningun efecto secundario molesto desde que me hicieron la infiltracion ayer, recien vengo de hacer una caminata larga con mi hermana Caro y mi sobrino Kai, estos primeros 2 dias me voy a quedar aca con ellos porque prefiero estar separado de mis hijos hasta que me sienta mejor asi puedo descansar bien. &lt;br /&gt;En 3 semanas mas me hacen otra infiltracion. &lt;br /&gt;El Sabado pasado fui a la cancha con mi cuniado Chase a ver futbol, Galaxy contra Toronto, lo disfrute muchisimo. Mi cuniado, el esposo de mi hermana Caro los va a ver siempre de local, la ultima vez que habia ido a la cancha con El a ver al Galaxy fue antes de empezar con todo el tratamiento pero ahora los medicos me dicen que puedo estar tranquilo de estar rodeado de mucha gente porque estoy bien de globulos blancos y asi mis defensas estan bien. Asi que ya me saque entradas para mi y Marci para ir a ver a Soda Stereo el 21 de Noviembre que tocan en la cancha de Los Angeles Galaxy.     &lt;br /&gt;Realmente me estoy sintiendo de lo mejor desde que empece con todo el tratamiento, excepto ahora que me acaban de hacer la infiltracion y no me siento tan bien pero en un par de dias mas me voy a empezar a sentir mejor otra vez como me pasa cada vez que me hacen una nueva infiltracion.&lt;br /&gt; Hoy es un gran dia, cumplimos 7 anios de casados con Marci. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Yo le digo al Senior: "Tu eres mi refugio, mi fortaleza, el Dios en quien confio" Salmo 91:2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                           Un abrazo grande a todos, hasta la proxima,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-2066591518748869286?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/2066591518748869286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=2066591518748869286' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2066591518748869286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2066591518748869286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/10/hola-todos-aca-paso-darles-las-ultimas.html' title=''/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-5728632443706419234</id><published>2007-10-04T21:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-04T22:25:32.515-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Latest News</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;Sorry it took so long to get the news out, but our lives continue to be busy with two little ones on top of all the appointments we have to go to. You all know I went through four tests ( Ct scan, pet scan, MRI and endoscopic ultrasound) to determine how my body is responding to the chemo and the results are in and they tell me that my cancer is definitely stage 4 and not 3 like they originally thought and hoped it to be. The cancer has metastasized to various parts of my body. When they did the first tests in the beginning there were some suspicious spots in my lungs, something very small in my liver and possible lymph node involvement. But they were not 100% sure so we were holding out hope that it had not spread. Well, it was cancer .They also are saying that the cancer started in the top of the stomach and grew up into the esophagus and it is called gastroesaphageal junction. BUT, the very good news is that the chemo seems to be working!!! The spots in the lungs have disappeared except one spot that has shrunk. The spot in the liver has shrunk from 10mm to 4mm, shrunk by 60% and the lymph nodes that showed cancer, now show none. The main tumor in the esophagus has also shrunk drastically. The doctors were very encouraged by the results and almost surprised by how well my body is responding. Let's keep hoping for more good results this next time!!!!! A big wall at the City of Hope says " There is always HOPE" and we have to believe that. We meet many cancer patients each visit to The City of Hope and have heard amazing stories that encourage us to keep the faith and hope. &lt;br /&gt;The doctors have decided to continue with the same chemotherapy for 3 more rounds, about 9 more weeks because of the good results that they are seeing. I had my fourth round of chemo last Thursday and it was pretty rough over the weekend. I'm feeling better now and hope to feel good until the next infusion in two more weeks. &lt;br /&gt;Our prayer is for the chemo to continue fighting the cancer full force and for the side effects to be minimal!!! Thanks for all your prayers and support, we feel very comforted to have so many friends and family caring for us.&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to forget to mention how thankful I am with The Maui Windsurf Company where I work for all their support for me and my family. Thanks Masato and Christian and all of our friends and family and people we don't even know who are supporting us through their windsurfing websites. Thank you so much!!!&lt;br /&gt;Take care and until next time, Fede&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-5728632443706419234?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/5728632443706419234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=5728632443706419234' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5728632443706419234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5728632443706419234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/10/latest-news.html' title='Latest News'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-5454746502558238190</id><published>2007-09-28T11:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-30T20:37:49.069-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ultimas novedades</title><content type='html'>Hola a todos, acabo de pasar por unos 7 dias  de estudios para determinar en que estado esta mi cancer hoy y los resultados dieron que  es definitavamente de grado 4 y no 3 como se habia supuesto en un principio pero dio que me hizo  metastasis en varias partes del cuerpo, lo que tenia en el pulmon era cancer, tambien lo del higado y bastante en el pecho y espalda en ganglios linfaticos y en ganglios que rodean al tumor que tengo en parte del estomago y el esofago, se determino tambien con  seguridad que NO ES CANCER DE ESOFAGO sino que empezo en el estomago y crecio hacia arriba, y por estar ubicado ahora  en la union del estomago y el esofago no lo llaman cancer de estomago, tiene otro nombre pero no me lo acuerdo. &lt;br /&gt;LAS MUY BUENAS NOTICIAS son que el cancer desaparecio del pulmon, del pecho, de la espalda, el del higado se redujo de 1 centimetro a 4 milimetros, un 60%, es bastante, el tumor en el estomago y esofago se achico un monton, desaparecio todo lo que estaba hacia adentro del esofago por eso no se me venia trabando la comida hace tiempo, queda algo en un ganglio cerca del cuello pero no saben con total seguridad que sea cancer, me dicen que podria se por otra cosa que esta hinchado, cuando me hagan todos los estudios otra vez en 3 meses se va a poder comprobar con mas seguridad. &lt;br /&gt; Los doctores tomaron la decision de seguir con la misma quimioterapia unos 3 meses mas por el tan buen resultado que esta dando, no quieren hablar de operacion por ahora, quieren ver que pasa de aca a 3 meses.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;No quiero dejar de mencionar lo agradecido que estoy con Maui Windsurf Company, donde yo trabajo, que me estan ayudando tanto con todo esto que estoy pasando.   www.mauiwindsurfcompany.com.     Gracias Masato, gracias Chris&lt;br /&gt;Y a todos mis amigos, familiares, gente que no conozco y me esta dando su gran apoyo, a tantos que me estan ayudando en sus paginas de windsurf en Internet en todos lados del mundo, a todos ustedes,  gracias por todo este gran apoyo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy recibi un ragalazo de mis tias en Argentina, dos remeras de San Lorenzo firmadas por los jugadores de San Lorenzo y el tecnico Ramon Diaz dandome su apoyo.  Gracias tias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Un abrazo a todos, hasta la proxima, Fede&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-5454746502558238190?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/5454746502558238190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=5454746502558238190' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5454746502558238190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/5454746502558238190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/09/ultimas-novedades.html' title='Ultimas novedades'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-2318655403288839888</id><published>2007-09-19T12:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:14:15.174-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF9NVVb0iI/AAAAAAAAAn8/ziBctVo2wow/s1600-h/DSCN0878.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF9NVVb0iI/AAAAAAAAAn8/ziBctVo2wow/s320/DSCN0878.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112004720061043234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF8-FVb0hI/AAAAAAAAAn0/FKXkO3hxaLI/s1600-h/DSCN0876.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF8-FVb0hI/AAAAAAAAAn0/FKXkO3hxaLI/s320/DSCN0876.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112004458068038162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These ones are from my daughter Lucia at preschool, she started one week ago.&lt;br /&gt;Estas son de mi hija Lucia en el jardin de infantes que empezo hace una semana.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-2318655403288839888?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/2318655403288839888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=2318655403288839888' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2318655403288839888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/2318655403288839888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/09/these-ones-are-from-my-daughter-lucia.html' title=''/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF9NVVb0iI/AAAAAAAAAn8/ziBctVo2wow/s72-c/DSCN0878.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4172219236532823877</id><published>2007-09-19T12:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:14:15.984-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF8U1Vb0gI/AAAAAAAAAns/Oglrwbh4ais/s1600-h/DSCN0864.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF8U1Vb0gI/AAAAAAAAAns/Oglrwbh4ais/s320/DSCN0864.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112003749398434306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF7iFVb0fI/AAAAAAAAAnk/HmgwKwJTye8/s1600-h/DSCN0813.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF7iFVb0fI/AAAAAAAAAnk/HmgwKwJTye8/s320/DSCN0813.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112002877520073202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The picture I am with Mateo is at the Hospital before my 3rd infusion for chemotherapy. &lt;br /&gt;La foto que estoy con Mateo es en el Hospital antes que me hicieran la tercera infiltracion de quimioterapia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other one is from my wife Marci with my son Mateo.&lt;br /&gt;La otra es de mi esposa con nuestro hijo Mateo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4172219236532823877?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4172219236532823877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4172219236532823877' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4172219236532823877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4172219236532823877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/09/picture-i-am-with-mateo-is-at-hospital.html' title=''/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RvF8U1Vb0gI/AAAAAAAAAns/Oglrwbh4ais/s72-c/DSCN0864.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1349062998094356655</id><published>2007-09-16T15:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-18T23:51:36.297-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A New Week</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;We hope all is well with you! Thank you for all of your support, phone calls, emails and prayers. We are thankful for each and every one of you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;    This week Will be a very important week for all of us. Fede will be having 4 tests/scans to re-stage his cancer. So we will know if the chemo is doing it's job. Of course we believe it is and hope and pray for the tests to have a positive outcome. Tuesday Fede will have his third endoscopy. This one is with an ultrasound and can really see through the esophagus. He will be put to sleep for this one and he is relieved about that because the last one he had in July at UCLA, he woke up twice during the procedure and it was really uncomfortable.. He will have this done in Pasadena and we trust the doctor will do a good job. Friday he will have a cat scan and an MRI and next Monday a Pet Scan. Then on Tuesday of next week we will meet with the surgeon and discuss the results of all of these tests. So we will have a better idea of how Fede is responding to the chemo and if surgery will be in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Since Fede's third infusion 2 weeks ago he has been feeling pretty well. The issue with his feet has cleared up and he is enjoying the days of feeling "almost" normal. He is eating ALOT and gaining the weight he had lost over the last 9 months. He looks great, his hair had started falling out but stopped and overall he is doing amazing on Chemo. He even played tennis with his dad yesterday and had a great time. He has been so positive through all of this and wakes up enjoying each day with his kids and family and friends. He says how happy he is to spend every single day with the kids and watch them grow daily. &lt;br /&gt;In the midst of all these trials, so many good things are happening too. Fede's dad and brother came out to California and Fede couldn't be happier to be with them during this time.. We are all so happy to welcome Chase and Carolina's baby to the family. Their baby boy arrived on Saturday so we are thrilled to have a new nephew to love, and for Lucia and Mateo to have a baby cousin to grow up with here. And our families have opened up their homes for us and it feels so great to have all of our families' support. Also Lucia started preschool and is having a great time and making lots of new friends. She is adjusting well to all the changes and is growing fast too. Mateo has been such a blessing, he is a super happy baby and goes along with us everywhere. He is starting to crawl now and is just growing too fast! &lt;br /&gt;We'll let you all know how this week goes. Thanks for all your prayers and support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love, Marci, Fede, Lucia and Mateo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1349062998094356655?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1349062998094356655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1349062998094356655' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1349062998094356655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1349062998094356655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-week.html' title='A New Week'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-9075007041046445690</id><published>2007-09-10T21:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T01:58:26.792-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Este Jueves pasado me hicieron la tercera infiltracion de quiomioterapia, vengo pasando unos dias bastantes pesados despues de esta infiltracion y no puedo caminar bien producto de uno de los efectos colaterales de uno de los medicamnetos de la quimioterapia, me duelen los pies cuando camino asi que hoy me dijo mi doctor que corte por un par de dias con el medicamento que tomo todos los dias que es parte de la quimioterpia, asi vemos si se me pasa esto en los pies, me pidio que trate de no caminar por dos dias.  En las proximas dos semanas me van a ser 3 examenes para ver en que estado esta todo adentro y a partir de ahi verian los doctores como continuar. Uno de los examenes es de mi cerebro, otro es otra vez una endoscopia y el otro un escaneo que tambien me lo habian hecho antes de empezar con todo el tratamiento y el 25 de este mes tengo un turno con mi cirujano para ver como seguimos con todo esto.&lt;br /&gt;Maniana en un gran dia, empecieza un jardin de infantes mi hija Lucia, como sea voy a ir a llevarla con mi esposa, no me lo voy a perder y mi viejo llega de Argentina, hace un anio que no lo veo y tambien llega mi hermano. Asi que voy a tener casi a toda mi familia aca conmigo excepto mi hermana Lucila que esta en Espania con su familia.  Los voy a tener maniana a mi Papa y a mi Mama  conmigo despues de un anio que no estoy con los dos juntos. &lt;br /&gt; Mi vieja esta aca en California desde un poco antes que nos vinieramos para aca, dejo todo en Argentina para estar cerca mio  y darnos una gran mano en todo.  &lt;br /&gt; Que buen mes este con el campeonato mundial de rugby, aguanten los Pumas ! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                             Hasta la proxima. Fede&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-9075007041046445690?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/9075007041046445690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=9075007041046445690' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/9075007041046445690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/9075007041046445690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/09/este-jueves-pasado-me-hicieron-la.html' title=''/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-4015174793237697385</id><published>2007-09-02T21:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-03T23:09:07.079-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;SPANISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hola a todos. Vengo de tener una muy buena semana sintiendome muy bien, vi a mi doctor el Lunes pasado y esta muy contento con el progreso de la quimioterpia por lo que le conte de como estoy comiendo normal otra vez, sin tener que licuar la comida y no se me esta quedando trabada como me pasaba antes. Me dice que esto se debe a que el tumor se esta achicando.&lt;br /&gt;Hacia meses que no comia asi.&lt;br /&gt;Este Jueves me hacen la tercera infiltracion. Lo primero que me van a hacer es un estudio de sangre, despues me encuentro con mi oncologo para ver como va todo y luego me hacen la infiltracion que dura 3 a 4 horas.  Hay 10 habitaciones privadas para hacer las infiltraciones que son muy comodas con television cada una. Lo primero que me hacen es conectarme suero y me mandan ahi un medicamento que se llama Zofran que es un antinausea. Despues me empiezan a pasar Epirubicin que es uno de los medicamentos de la quimioterapia. Es rojo oscuro y una enfermera me lo inyecta muy despacio a travez de la coneccion que tengo del suero y tiene que ir controlando que no se escape de la vena porque me puede lastimar un musculo de la mano o del brazo, depende por donde me lo esten inyectando.  Cuando terminan de pasar todo este liquido me ponen otro medicamento que se llama Oaxiplatin que tambien es muy fuerte y me lo inyectan como lo hacen con el suero. Este medicamento tiene efectos colaterales muy raros, puede afectar el sistema nervioso y cada vez que me la dieron me causo mucho dolor en la mano y el brazo que me duro despues por 4 dias mas o menos y por 5 dias despues no puedo tomar o comer nada frio  y no puedo exponerme a agua fria por ejemplo meterme a una pileta. Si toco agua fria es como hielo y siento enseguida que me quema y no puedo estar al sol por los primeros 5 dias.&lt;br /&gt; Tengo remedios para la naucea asi que ni bien me agarra la controlo enseguida.&lt;br /&gt;El pelo se me cayo bastante pero no se me cae mas y casi ni se me nota que se cayo tanto.&lt;br /&gt;Cada dia tiene su desafio pero tambien muchas cosas lindas y estoy muy feliz  que a la vez tengo mucho tiempo para poder disfrutar  tanto a mis hijos y verlos crecer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una de las cosas mas lindas que me va a pasar este mes es el nacimiento del bebe de mi hermana Caro. Y tambien mi hermano y mi Papa llegan este fin de semana y va a ser muy especial estar con ellos juntos. Mi hermana menor Lucila vive en Barcelona con su familia, mi cuniado Pablo y mi sobrina Coral que es una belleza. Ellos no van a poder venir pero los sentimos cerca igual todos los dias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gracias por el gran apoyo que me estan dando.&lt;br /&gt;Un gran abrazo a todos. Fede&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENGLISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello to all !&lt;br /&gt;      I've been feeling pretty good the last week, I saw my oncologist last Monday and he was so happy when I told him that I was eating normal.  Foods I haven't eaten in months are passing with no problem, the food is not getting stuck in my esophagus and he said that this means that the tumor is getting smaller because of the chemotherapy. I am getting my 3rd infusion this Thursday.  First I go in for blood work, then meet with my oncologist to see how everything is going.  Then the infusion with takes about 3-4 hours.  At The City of Hope they have about 10 private infusion rooms that are comfortable.  A nice bed, chair for whoever is with me and T.V.  First they set up the I.V. and give me fluids and Zofran which is a very strong anti nausea medicine.  Then they start the first medicine which is called epirubicin.  It is bright red and the nurse has to slowly inject it into the IV.  It is very powerful so they have to watch as it goes in to make sure that is going into the vein and nothing is leaking.  Then they start oaxiplatin which is also very strong and potent.  This drug has many strange side-effects.  It can affect the nervous system and each time it has caused a lot of pain in my hand and arm that lasts for about 4 days.  Also with this drug I can't drink anything cold or be exposed to cold water for about 4-5 days.  If I touch cold water it feels like ice and gives a sort of burning sensation.&lt;br /&gt;     So now I know what to expect.  I have anti nausea medicine and can control the nausea with that.  My hair started falling out but has stopped and it's not even noticiable. &lt;br /&gt;     We are taking it day by day and each day has some challenges but many joys too.  I'm so happy to be spending so much time with my children everyday and watching them grow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     We've been really busy here with all my appoitments and seeing family and friends when i'm feeling good.  Lucia got her first black eye on Saturday.  She fell and hit the side of her face but was strong and recovered with a popsicle.  With all the hot weather, we've been enjoying  my in-laws' pool.  Lucia is almost swimming and we can't get her out of the pool. &lt;br /&gt;     We're really excited and waiting for the birth of my sister Carolina's baby this month.  My dad is coming and my brother and it will be nice to be all together.  The only one missing is my sister Lucila and her family in Barcelona. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for all your support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big hug to all. Fede&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-4015174793237697385?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/4015174793237697385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=4015174793237697385' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4015174793237697385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/4015174793237697385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/09/spanish-hola-todos.html' title=''/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-7257674561196013444</id><published>2007-08-28T22:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:14:16.221-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RtT-0VPDstI/AAAAAAAAAms/5_0AWa17s2M/s1600-h/fam.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103984452724568786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RtT-0VPDstI/AAAAAAAAAms/5_0AWa17s2M/s320/fam.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This pic is from one week ago.  Mateo will be 6 months on Sept. 6th and is getting his first tooth.  Lucia will be starting preschool in two weeks and she'll go twice a week and is really excited about it!  She will be 3 in November. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta foto es de hace dos semanas.  Mateo va a tener 6 meses el seis de Septiember y le esta saliendo su primer diente.  Lucia va a empezar en un jardin de infantes en dos semanas mas y esta con muchas ganas de empezar.  Va a cumplir 3 anios en Noviembre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-7257674561196013444?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/7257674561196013444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=7257674561196013444' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7257674561196013444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/7257674561196013444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/08/this-pic-is-from-one-week-ago.html' title=''/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RtT-0VPDstI/AAAAAAAAAms/5_0AWa17s2M/s72-c/fam.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-1244159501641742275</id><published>2007-08-28T21:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-28T22:05:42.793-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Healing</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         Like you already know, life gave me a surprise with  cancer of the esophagus which was discovered in June.  After seeing four different doctors since November of last year, and some tests that showed nothing, my symptoms continued. My symptoms started last year with a feeling like the food was not going down good.  It was very gradual but by November, food was getting stuck and I was starting to change my diet by eating softer foods to avoid the uncomfortable feeling.  The doctors performed an upper GI test that is an  x-ray of the throat and esophagus.  You swallow a magnetic liquid that is seen going down the throat on the x-ray.  Nothing was discovered with this test.  The symptoms continued and I was told I had acid reflux and to take antacid.  I returned 2 months later and was again told it was acid reflux and to take the medicine for 2 more months.  Finally in May I went back to the doctor with my wife and insisted on an endoscopy to look down my throat and see what was there.  At this point I was having a lot of trouble swallowing food that wasn't soft.  To avoid choking we had starting to blend almost everything and completely cut out meat from the diet.  The blood test showed no signs of illness but the doctor agreed to send me to a Gastroenterologist.  With only 2 on the island I couldn't get in for a couple of weeks.  Finally on June 22nd  I had an endoscopy.  The doctor found something she didn't like but said it was probably an infection, small chance that it could be the beginning of cancer but probably not considering my age.  On June 25th, the results were back, I went to her office alone because I thought it wasn't going to be serious and the words she told be were shocking.  I had esophageal cancer.  And it was serious.&lt;br /&gt;      So like you all know, we came to California within 2 weeks of the diagnosis so we could have the support of our families and the best medical care.  We had consultations at UCLA and The City of Hope.  We chose The City of Hope to treat my cancer for their great reputation and for many excellent references.  You can see their website at &lt;a href="http://www.cityofhope.org/"&gt;www.cityofhope.org&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;        It has been 4 weeks since I started chemotherapy and Thursday of last week I had my second infusion, I have approximately 5 weeks left.  The truth is I'm doing pretty well with the chemo.  The first few days after the infusion are the most difficult.  I feel pretty bad the first 4 days but the anti nausea medicine helps a lot!  After about the 4th day I start to feel a little better but never normal.  I feel a little week, sometimes more and sometimes less. And when I am feeling good, I take advantage of it and try to exercise a little.  I'm eating good and drinking a lot of liquids.  After about the 2nd week of chemo food started passing a lot easier and now I'm eating almost anything I want.  So the doctors were happy about that and are hopeful that the tumor is shrinking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;           My cancer is stage 3/4.  The scans detected 2 very small spots on the liver but they can't be 100% sure unless they biopsy it.  So they are treating it as stage 4, but the rest of my organs are clear.  It is stage 3 because the tumor goes deep into all the layers of the esophagus.  The surgeon said it is not a big tumor but is goes deep, it is about 3cm long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;          Something that changed drastically since I found out about my cancer is my nutrition with the help of a great natural nutritionist on Maui.  I'm eating mostly organic and taking supplements that help with the side effects of chemo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        Thanks to the love and incredible support of my wife and the happiness of being with our children everyday, and the incredible support of all of our family and friends and especially the faith we have in Jesus Christ, I'm taking all of this with Joy, Peace, a lot of strength and most importantly HOPE. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            Something important that I want to share with all of you is that preventative medicine is fundamental. A very simple test, the endoscopy should have been preformed from the beginning.. It is the test that allows the doctor to see inside the esophagus and stomach and it is very easy.  I had one in Maui and one in California and didn't feel anything.  You have to be your own health advocate.  My cancer could have been discovered 6 months ago when I first started going to the doctor.  But because of my age, every doctor overlooked the symptoms and assumed the least:  acid reflux. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      The &lt;span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"&gt;photo&lt;/span&gt; is of the first infusion of chemo.  I'll keep you all updated often.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;            A big hug to each of you,&lt;br /&gt;                   Fede&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1605366705717160182-1244159501641742275?l=vivoalive.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/feeds/1244159501641742275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1605366705717160182&amp;postID=1244159501641742275' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1244159501641742275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1605366705717160182/posts/default/1244159501641742275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/2007/08/healing.html' title='Healing'/><author><name>Fede</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1605366705717160182.post-206377979427799853</id><published>2007-07-30T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:14:16.662-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Curandome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RtB3olPDssI/AAAAAAAAAl0/r_NFPYqB9zw/s1600-h/DSCN0744.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102709916884513474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pvcc_VF4d-Q/RtB3olPDssI/AAAAAAAAAl0/r_NFPYqB9zw/s320/DSCN0744.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hola a todos !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como ya sabran la vida me tomo por sorpresa con un cancer de esofago que me lo descubrieron recien en Junio despues de ver a varios doctores desde Noviembre y fuimos mi esposa y yo que pedimos que me hicieran una endoscopia porque los mismos sintomas me seguian ocurriendo, sentia que la comida se me quedaba trabada y me tardaba en pasar y se descubrio que tenia una tumor maligno en la entrada del estomago, parte en el esofago y y parte en el estomago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como en Maui no tenian todo lo necesario para el tratamiento de este cancer decidimos venirnos a California donde tenemos mucha familia y hay muy buenos hospitales con doctores con muchisima experiencia para tratar este tipo de cancer. Elegimos el Hospital City of Hope por la gran reputacion que tiene y teniamos muy buenas referencias, lo pueden ver aca &lt;a href="http://www.cityofhope.org/"&gt;http://www.cityofhope.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya hace 4 semanas que comence con la quimioterapia y el Jueves de la semana pasada me hicieron la segunda infiltracion, me faltan 5 semanas mas de quimioterapia. La verdad que la vengo llevando bastante bien, los primeros dias despues que me hacen la infiltracion son los mas dificiles, me senti mal los primeros 5 dias y lo mismo con la segunda infiltracion pero me la banque gracias a los remedios que me dieron para bancarme los efectos colaterales,  despues de esos primeros dias me senti mucho mejor, en realidad nunca me siento normal, me siempre debil, a veces mas y a veces menos y cuando me siento bien aprovecho para hacer ejercicio y estoy comiendo muy bien y tomando muchisimo liquido que es lo que me pidieron los medicos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi cancer es de grado 3 pero los medicos lo quieren tomar como de grado 4 porque hay unas manchitas en el higado pero no pueden detectar si realmente son celulas cancerigenas pero creen que si son se irian con la quimioterapia. El resto de los organos estan bien gracias a Dios.&lt;br /&gt;Es de grado 3 porque esta tomada toda la pared del esofago y el tumor mide mas o menos 3 centimetros de largo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Algo que cambie drasticamente desde que me entere que tenia cancer fue mi nutricion con la ayuda de una muy buena nutricionista en Maui. Estoy comiendo todo organico compensado con suplementos naturales y algunos de estos suplementos me ayudarian a contrarrestar los efectos colaterales de la quimioterapia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Gracias al amor y el apoyo increible de mi esposa con la felicidad de todos los dias con nuestros hijos, gracias al gran apoyo del resto de nuestras familias y de todos nuestros amigos y principalmente la fe que tenemos mi esposa y yo en Jesucristo, estoy llevando todo esto con mucha felicidad, mucha paz, mucha fuerza y mucha esperanza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Algo importantisimo que quiero dejarles a todos aca es que no se dejen estar con la salud, la medicina preventiva es fundametal, sepan bien que una endoscopia es lo unico que permite ver bien adentro del esofago y el estomago y es una boludes, a mi me hicieron dos, una en Maui y otra aca en California y no senti nada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La foto es de la primera infiltracion de 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