Hyperbaric Treatment

Life seems complicated. We live in a world of instant and overwhelming information. This blog is for me to just keep it simple as best I can. Currently, I am undergoing HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen treatment). I was declared cancer free in 2011 after two cancer battles. It was throat cancer. More specifically, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. It occurs in less that .2 of 1% of all known North American head and neck cancers. Lucky me? Well, no. We live in a world of cause and effect. From the ultimate perspective the creator God of all things (yes, I am an unashamed believer in the Lord Jesus Christ) my cancer--both of them--where preordained for two reasons. First, it was somehow for God's glory though I may never fully understand this part and often refer to Deuteronomy 29:29. Part of biblical faith requires a verifiable trust in God. Second, it has to do with my courses in discipline from God's loving hand. Whu-what? The Bible tells me that God disciplines those he loves as a father disciplines the son he loves. By discipline is meant advanced training. So I am being trained in the matters over which God desires me to gain a knowledge otherwise unknown or un-experienced for the purpose of getting God glory. Not that I somehow go and get that glory and then bring it to him but that he gets glory for himself by my suffering and remaining committed to Christ. And it's not as though I can remain committed to Christ by my own power. All of that is the sustaining power of God at work in me--as it is in all believers by faith in Christ. HBOT is interesting. Each day I lay in the "glass" chamber while the pressure is applied (it's equivalent to being 48 feet below the ocean) and I breath 100% oxygen. The theory is that this increases oxygen in the body increasing its ability to heal. Why am I doing that? Well, the treatment for cancer (mostly the radiation) has left damage. All my teeth are ruined and need removal. Most are broken with only the roots remaining. I feel no pain because some of my cranial nerves are "out of order" due to radiation. I have necrosis of the jay, too, and that needs to be removed of eventually that will kill me. Without this HBOT treatment I am at risk of never healing and potentially dying from the surgical wounds.As of today, I have received three treatments. I need 17 more then comes surgery followed by ten more HBOT's.