{"id":2080,"date":"2022-01-24T01:04:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T01:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2022-01-24T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T01:04:33","slug":"i-have-pancreatic-cancer-and-ive-defied-the-odds-but-this-alternative-treatment-seemed-to-help-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"I Have Pancreatic Cancer, and I\u2019ve Defied the Odds\u2014but This Alternative Treatment Seemed to Help Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2018, the pain in my ribs and back erupted almost overnight. I ignored it at first, sure that I had done too many abdominal exercises at the gym. When the pain persisted for a few weeks, I went to my doctor. She was a bit concerned, but all my blood and urine tests came back normal.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, the pain intensified and started waking me at night. I made an appointment with a physical therapist. Within 10 minutes of examining me, a shadow came over the therapist\u2019s face. \u201cI don\u2019t want to alarm you, but this pain is not muscular-skeletal,\u201d she told me. \u201cYou need to get a CT scan. Today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later that day\u2014the Wednesday before Thanksgiving\u2014my husband Greg and I sat in our local hospital\u2019s emergency department, waiting for scan results. When the ED doctor returned to my room, her tone was serious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/pancreatic-cancer-ve-defied-odds-140000690.html\">Read the full story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2018, the pain in my ribs and back erupted almost overnight. I ignored it at first, sure that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}