About Us dealing with Lung Cancer

In  November 2019 I had surgery on my right jaw removing two fairly large cancerous tumors and one lymph node my dentist had found and it went pretty well. A follow up full body CAT-scan however, revealed three smaller tumors on my right lung. Talk about complications. My heart. The lower chamber hadn't worked in years and I had been getting by fairly well with only one irregular heartbeat. Going under a deeper state of anesthesia for a longer period of surgery would be extremely risky. Also, radiation or chemo therapy in that area could damage my ailing heart even more. There was no way to tell. I opted to just wait & watch.

By April 2022 after 18 months of tests, consultations and evaluations my family Dr. sat me down for the dreaded news. The tumors were growing faster now and a different type of tumor and lymph node were glowing brightly in my left lung, probably spreading cancer to who knows where. Without treatment I was now deemed terminal. "Oh well, things are the way the are. Deal with it."  Being a music writer that's just the way I always thought, this was no different.

I already had a feeling things were leaning that way and had already begun the year before slowly sorting things.  Rearranging assets, liquidating distractions, remastering old music I still retained the rights to and recording new pieces I had put off for hopes of a better offer. My daily naps increased and the pain meds slowed those studio sessions to a crawl. Also, I began devoting time researching questions of eternity as well. 

I stuck with what I was most familiar with, Christianity. I read, listened and consulted priests, preachers and historians. Sifting through books, podcasts and documentaries busily gathering nuggets of continuity I could put together later. The one vehicle they all seemed to agree about and held in highest regard as their center piece of healing was Prayer. Prayer that actually worked. I knew I'd better find the key to this and I'd better find it fast.  

By 2023 my days came earlier, often starting at 3am. Sometimes with a dull pain across my chest sometimes by a sharp pain from my right lung. I had learned not to panic, I knew it was just His way of waking me up with something new to show me or listen to. I always got up quietly, went to the studio for my coffee & pain meds and began with my version of prayer. Sometimes I would listen to what I had remastered or recorded the day before while in the middle of these prayers. Blending these two seemed to help in healing my confidence with both. Unknowingly, it was healing my cancer as well.

The first part of January 2025 I was trying to get over another lung infection when late one night my heart began racing out of control. From 37 to 127 bpm my breathing was more than erratic. I thought, oh well...time's up. The ambulance took me to the local hospital where they calmed my heart  down with a couple of shots of nitro and the Dr. on call ran a CAT-Scan checking for a blood clot in my left lung. It was negative so I went home. My regular Dr. was out of the country then, but I got to see him four days later.  He came in smiling, which he had never done before. He said "I compared the CAT-scan we did in 2023 to the current one they did the other night and guess what...the tumors in right lung have stabilized. No new growth at all. The larger tumor in your left lung which had become layered...has shrunk! 2mm. It's never suppose to do that. No treatment, no therapy and it shrinks on it's own? Whatever you've been doing, keep doing it." We laughed a little and I just shrugged my shoulders. "OK" and left it at that.

Keep in mind he didn't say my tumors had disappeared completely. That would be a curing. They do appear to be healing, which may or may not lead to a curing.  At any rate, it would seem the prayers and music used for my appeal to be taken off the terminal list has at least found favor for a while. I can only freely offer them to you now and sincerely hope your results excel mine. May the Lord bless & keep you always. Amen.

Cancer Healing Prayers 

 Cancer Healing Music