Right place, right path

Hi y'all! We're less than 2 hours from the border and yet they don't speak Canadian here, eh? We've been here 3 days and feel very at home. Creative Health Institute is a very homey place and is run by staff and interns who have been healed here, totally believe in the place, and who love it here. We can't say enough about it. (I could go without the 'Green Energy Soup' but other than that, it's awesome!) Everybody here is very caring, staff and guests alike, and it's good for the soul.

I have been off coffee (haven't had a cup since Wednesday morning) and am feeling much better now than I did on Thursday. (I've had a green tea once or twice a day, which still has a little caffeine in it.) I'm very thankful as it's hard to absorb any information when all you want to do is lay in bed and with a caffeine hangover. Dave was feeling quite well until last night. He started getting pain in his hands & feet especially. It's another side effect of chemotherapy and is called neuropathy. (One of the many side effects listed in the chemotherapy booklet sent home with us from the London Regional Cancer Program.) Today was a bad day for Dave. He can hardly walk because his feet hurt so much. Also, he still has pain from his feeding tube and the granulation tissue from that. (Granulation tissue is an overgrowth of healing tissue that has only a very thin lining of skin, and can be painful.) 

Today was a nice sunny day here, and our room faces south, so Dave sat in the sun a lot to get some Vitamin D and it was toasty warm for him.

We've been learning how to prepare a few things so far. We've had some 'cooking' classes - except without the cooking, as raw living food isn't cooked. (Again this is all fresh organic food, and no meat, fish, or dairy.) Yesterday we learned how to make almond milk, nut cheese, mock salmon, & chocolate mousse. All very interesting and very tasty. Today for dinner we had 'spaghetti', which was actually zucchini 'noodles'. (Fresh zucchini that is put through a spiral cutter of some sort.) and 'massaged' with some olive oil & spices. The sauce is made from fresh tomatoes and sundried tomatoes pureed, and spices added and warmed but not cooked. (We didn't make the food today - the interns did. But I asked lots of questions. Plus they send us home with all of their recipes.) Dinner was lovely and of course there was fresh salad and dressing. Everything here is very strictly ORGANIC, ORGANIC, ORGANIC. This is a learning institute, and they encourage sharing any information we receive here. We're being sent home with all their recipes. On Monday we'll be shown how to dehydrate and make things like flax crackers and kale chips which are supposed to be really good. 

We have been very encouraged and feel positive that this is what we need to do to get Dave on the path to healing. Dave drinks a ton of carrot raspberry juice all day as part of his cancer diet here. We have lots to learn but basically we're building up his immune system and trying to keep any toxins out of his body by only eating organic. I have lots to do at home to restock our kitchen and source all organic products.

Today Dave slept most of the day, getting up to get his wheatgrass shots, and meals. He really is having a lot of pain in his hands and feet and we ask that you pray for this. Tomorrow is Sunday and there is a speaker here in the morning, but Dave would like to head into a nearby city (Coldwater) to go to church in the morning. Also, if he feels up to it, we've been invited to somebody's home nearby to watch the Superbowl. The way Dave felt today, he wouldn't have been up to going, so we hope he feels better tomorrow.

Thanks everybody for praying. We know in our hearts that we're in the right place, and now on the right path.

When we get back home to London, I'll need to contact the nurse at St. Joe's Hospital that told us her story, wrote down the website on a piece of paper for me, and insisted we look into this place.

God is good.

Much love,

Val