Let the Battle Begin

My journey in parenthood and back into raw food has been a slow and steady one but I am now starting to see some changes. I am slowly losing weight and my energy levels are up. I started off eating a lot of fats, and have now balanced it out a little better and am consuming a lot less fat and much more carbs and greens. I’ve been having fun experimenting with new recipes and rediscovering the old. My dehydrator has been jump started back into gear with things such as banana bread, buckwheaties and cookies and my kitchen has become a regular sprouting ground. My daughter hasn’t complained once about the new flavours she has been experiencing.
However is it always true that when one area of your life is going well another deteriorates?
My baby is perfect in every way and I feel like I am in a good place right now too. My husband and I have a great relationship and we are as much in love today as we ever were and having a baby hasn’t changed our relationship at all.
On the down side my mother-in-law’s health has been deteriorating since the baby was born. She has been battling cancer for a while now and it isn’t the first time either, but before Christmas she was given the all clear. However since the new year she has been complaining of pain in the stomach and has been in hospital twice and as it turns out the cancer hasn’t cleared up at all and it has gotten so bad that it has blocked her intestines so that she has now had a tube inserted to allow the waste to pass out of her.
She finally came out of hospital on Monday but she is very week and has lost a lot of weight. She has been told that as soon as she has her strength back she will start chemotherapy again. For years I have been telling her that sugar feeds cancer but she was not willing to give up her love for sweet things, however this time I think she got scared and with the baby now she has even more of a reason to fight the cancer, so she has finally agreed to listen to me and let me help her. With the help of Jill Swyers (www.jillswyers.com) a Hippocrates health educator we are going down the living foods route. Although my mother-in-law is at a very critical stage of her cancer by eliminating all sugar and with wheatgrass and green juices we are going to combat it together. It means a lot of running around on my part and with a baby in tow it wont be easy but I am confident that we can make a difference and I am determined to prove that food can be thy medicine.
As of Friday (the earliest we can get the wheatgrass) my juicer is going to be turned up a notch or two.