by Joe Birch | Oct 10, 2024 | The Battle with Cancer
Let me begin by saying it’s a miracle that I am alive today. This is my 4-year Anniversary! Pancreatic cancer is notorious for its high mortality rate. It is often not detected until patients are an advanced Stage 4, with few warning symptoms. It is an extremely...
by Joe Birch | Sep 18, 2024 | The Battle with Cancer
In this video you will see me working hard to restore my back garden – which had overgrown passion fruit vines and fig tree, wooden planter boxes filled with hard, poor soil, and a network of stubborn, tough vines that I needed to remove. I use this work in the...
by Joe Birch | Sep 11, 2024 | The Battle with Cancer
Next month I will be living with Pancreatic cancer for 4-years. To get to this point, I have endured a Distal Pancreatectomy in October 23, 2020, which removed 40% of my Pancreas, my entire Spleen, 8 lymph nodes; 6-months of the chemotherapy Gemsar from January...
by Joe Birch | Aug 29, 2024 | Finding and Nurturing Your Spirit
After a 6am walk around our wild property, breakfast on our Inner Patio is the morning ritual for me and Hopie. We pray, we eat slowly, we thank God for this new day, we sit in the quiet and listen to the greetings from our birds – who make a joyful chatter. We...
by Joe Birch | Aug 14, 2024 | Blessings from Nature
In my 4-year journey with Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer, he has been my nurse – tending to me after surgery, chemotherapy, Ablation and Cryoablation, side effects of treatment. He has been my therapist when I was caught in a 4-month cycle of Anxiety and FEAR of...
