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Linh Dinh just interviewed me about my move to Morocco.

Meanwhile…Charles Upton needs our help. He writes:

Dear friends,

Greetings of peace. I must now report that I was recently diagnosed with a fairly early stage of colon cancer. This has not come at a good time in my life because my wife Jenny and I are also facing serious economic difficulties; due to fluctuations in the bond market our investments stopped paying nearly 2 years ago, so we have been living mostly on our savings. I am also in need of extensive dental work that I can’t afford, plus some necessary home repairs, etc. etc., but it was the cancer that finally convinced me that I needed to ask for help.  So I’ve started a GoFundMe campaign, which you can donate to through https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-upton-survive-colon-cancer  People living outside the United States who want to donate can use a major credit or debit card. Select the amount in USD; you will be charged the equivalent your own currency. GoFundMe does not charge any conversion fees, though your own bank might.

After a colonoscopy discovered the tumor I was sent for follow-up to a colorectal surgeon who turned out to be rather crazy so I made no follow-up appointment. Around the same time I heard of an M.D. in a nearby town Dr. James Roach who practices world-class integrative medicine. When I consulted him he devised a regimen for me that includes a large number of herbs and supplements though his main therapeutic agent is artemisia annua (see https://www.oncology.news/2018-10-31-sweet-wormwood-powerful-alternative-to-chemotherapy.html ). I took all these events as signs that I should avoid having a large percentage of my colon surgically removed at least for now since at the age of 75 I would certainly risk ending my effective life through such an operation would likely no longer be able to take care of my wife Jenny whose health is also frail—and we might well lose our house. I also consulted with a more conventional physician at the Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky in my home town of Lexington who said: “Officially I have to recommend that you have the operation nonetheless we are well aware of Dr. Roach’s interesting work some of us at the Center have consulted him ourselves. And we are presently doing a study of artemisia annua.”

My problem is that the major elements of Dr. Roach’s regimen by my calculation would cost $8916.96 out of pocket for one year. (If, after that year, I see no improvement, I will considering more conventional therapy.) Some of these supplements I can probably get from cheaper sources than the company he uses but prices could go up and new supplements will apparently be prescribed in the future so I will stay with that figure. And in view of other expenses we face I’ve decided to set my GoFundMe goal at $35000.

I’ve come to the conclusion that doing what I need to let God purge me from the spiritual impurities that lie behind my disease is exactly the same thing I need to do to get ready for a good death. As for which way it will go, that’s in His hands. Nonetheless I am convinced that I still have some useful things to say in view of the darkness of the times, which I have dealt with in many of my videos and books, so for me to let myself die now out of pure neglect looks to me like a willful refusal of the gifts I am being given, gifts that I am apparently supposed to pass on to others. So if you want to make it easier on me, I hope you will let me express my gratitude by using my talents as a writer or a networker to serve any needs that may present themselves to you.

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