{"id":2119,"date":"2013-06-02T13:47:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T19:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobhickford.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2013-06-02T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T23:15:23","slug":"squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobhickford.com\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"SQUIRREL"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0\"sucrolose2\"<\/a>come to you\u00a0with a special prayer request for\u00a0Katie Wagner. I’d\u00a0be so happy\u00a0for you to cover her in prayer and\u00a0show her some love on her FB page at Wagner Family Support.\u00a0 Katie is 17 and is fighting Rhabdomyosarcoma. She was actually in remission but last month her cancer returned.\u00a0 She begins the fight again.\u00a0\u00a0This makes me sad.\u00a0 Do\u00a0you know that most childhood cancer survivors will never really be survivors? Unfortunately,\u00a0the drugs that are used to heal, don’t.\u00a0 Many of these kids will go into short-term\u00a0remission only to have their cancer return or new ones hit them as hard or harder because\u00a0the drugs being used are so toxic.\u00a0 The “survival” rate is a 5 year rate.\u00a0 Most of these kids will develop a repeat of their original cancer\u00a0or a different,\u00a0secondary cancer within that time period, which makes every scan a jumbled mess of nerves and unknowns.\u00a0There are 13,500 new\u00a0pediatric cancer cases a year which\u00a0is not seen as an “epidemic” by\u00a0our government. (That number is new cases – doesn’t include relapse\u00a0cases –\u00a0so that number isn’t truly accurate for them to base their reasoning).\u00a0 And although they say otherwise, the American Cancer Society\u00a0is not interested in funding better treatments and\u00a0safer, less toxic\u00a0drugs for childhood cancer.\u00a0\u00a0 I know this is repeat information but it bears repeating…\u00a0the ACS only gives 4% a year to pediatric cancer.\u00a0 They give NOTHING to Neuroblastoma… ZERO!\u00a0 (If you ever want to give to pediatric cancer, the ACS is not your place, find a foundation that truly funds childhood cancer research.)\u00a0 The drugs being used on our kids\u00a0are archaic!\u00a0 They were developed 30-40 years ago but it’s all we have!\u00a0\u00a0BUT things are going to change soon.\u00a0 Within the next 10-15 years, childhood cancer will become an “epidemic” as far as\u00a0our government’s standards. But we won’t have kept up and there will be such loss, more than we see even now. And those of you that know me well can all yell “SQUIRREL!”\u00a0 I’m heading off on a tangent now that is unrelated to Katie or Jake or most current kid cancer patients.\u00a0 Here goes…\u00a0 Sucralose!\u00a0 It’s in EVERYTHING!\u00a0 IT”S HORRIBLE!\u00a0 Most of the cancers that effect our children are absolute random mutation.\u00a0 There is no rhyme or reason.\u00a0 But that’s going to change.\u00a0 Very soon, you are going to see more\u00a0and more childhood cancer cases that can be traced.\u00a0 Finally, it will be called an epidemic.\u00a0 But it will be differ\"2013-06-02<\/a>ent than\u00a0our current cancers because like many of the adult cancers, it will be based on toxin build up.\u00a0 Sucralose\u00a0is in EVERYTHING our kids are ingesting.\u00a0 You have to look hard to find things WITHOUT\u00a0it.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0in your kid’s drinks, fruit snacks, yogurt, milk products, cereals, breads, cookies, sodas, everything.\u00a0Real sugar is OK,\u00a0our body metoabolizes it.\u00a0 It’s not bad, yet it’s being replaced by this chemical that hasn’t even been studied in humans long enough to know it’s effects.\u00a0I’m harping on this because it truly is in EVERYTHING!\u00a0 I ask you to spend a little time researching it and come up with your own conclusions. I find it to be a very scary product.\u00a0It’s just a matter of time until we know exactly what the body does with it, but sadly, the damage will be done.\u00a0 I don’t usually use this blog to rant but this is something that I truly believe is a future\u00a0monster\u00a0in the making… one that can be\u00a0easily thwarted. To give you an idea… the other day Henry went shopping with me. Everything that he put in the cart for Jake to try and put some meat on his bones had SUCRALOSE.\u00a0 All of it.\u00a0 He didn’t believe me at first so he started reading the labels too.\u00a0 Surprise!\u00a0 He got a real quick\u00a0education.\u00a0 READ LABELS!\u00a0\u00a0Don’t buy it!\u00a0It’s not worth the\u00a0chance. What Jake faces everyday should not be experienced by any other child.\u00a0Knowing there will be children that will one day have cancer by something other than an unlucky, statistically, random mutation makes me sad and SO ANGRY.<\/p>\n

\"2013-05-19<\/a>OK, rant over!\u00a0 On a sidenote… Jake woke up at 3AM throwing up like crazy.\u00a0 No fever but very weepy and off today.\u00a0 We head into TCH tomorrow.\u00a0 We’re scheduled to head in for six days of chemotherapy if he makes counts.\u00a0Last Thursday his ANC and hemoglobin were ready for chemo but his platelets were still low.\u00a0 He\u00a0needs to be at 75K to hook up and he was only at 36K.\u00a0We’ll\u00a0know manana.\u00a0In the meantime, I’m packing to be gone for the week\u00a0even though\u00a0I have a feeling we’ll come home tomorrow and have to try again later in the week. He’s had a good, happy week with swimming and playing.\u00a0 Oh, he’s also still harboring that cough from December.\u00a0 It’s never really gone away but it comes and goes in it’s severity.\u00a0 Thurday there was a little noise in the lower lobes of his lungs again so we’ll be watching that Monday.\u00a0 If it’s still there or worse, we’ll have to do a chest scan before entering chemo.\u00a0 For now, he’s cuddled up with his blankie\u00a0on the sofa watching Wreck It Ralph.\u00a0 Back to my moment of squirrel… thank you for humoring me and reading this, I hope\u00a0the information is helpful in some way and doesn’t discourage you from coming back!\u00a0\u00a0Have a blessed Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0come to you\u00a0with a special prayer request for\u00a0Katie Wagner. I’d\u00a0be so happy\u00a0for you to cover her in prayer and\u00a0show her some love on her FB page at Wagner Family Support.\u00a0 Katie is 17 and is fighting Rhabdomyosarcoma. She was actually in remission but last month her cancer returned.\u00a0 She begins the fight again.\u00a0\u00a0This makes me … <\/p>\n

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