Memories for Jonah

We will be compiling video and written memories of Jeri for our son, Jonah.

If posting video, start with your name and when/where you knew Jeri.
Posts are best to Jeri or Hal's Facebook pages.

If posting a written memory, start with your name and when/where you knew Jeri.
Posts are best to the email address: welovejeri@gmail.com

Thank you and bless you and yours!

Hal Fraser

Funeral Information

Thank you so much for all you love and prayers!

Jeri's funeral is going to be at Kamehameha Schools Chapel.
2 Saturdays from now May 10.
Viewing is at 10am
Celebration of life is 11am
No flowers needed
RSVP to email welovejeri@gmail.com

Gone to Heaven

As you know from the information earlier on this blog, Jeri was diagnosed very late, with the cancer being stage four lung cancer.  Being a young, vital woman with no history of smoking was a major factor in the late diagnosis.  In October of 2013, Jeri received an x-ray while being treated for side effects of an inhaler (prescribed due to her lingering cough).  It was negative.  In the first week or so of January, an x-ray showed lung polyps which ended up being the stage four cancer.

Jeri focused on healing and determined to do so without using the only major option that available from the health care system, chemotherapy.  Lung cancer tends to be hard to treat with chemo.  We heard there was a 30%-50% chance that it would affect the cancer from her cancer doctor (oncologist).

In an earlier post, I outlined some of many things we tried to curb the cancer growth.  Jeri was open to anything that would help her beat cancer.  We did a lot of things, and many times it gave Jeri relief from pain and other symptoms.

This cancer moved so quickly.  It was so aggressive.  Jeri did what she could with the time that she had.

Jeri was so strong, in both will and body.  Doctors with many years of experience were constantly saying that they didn’t think she would bounce back from various downturns in her health, but she did…again and again.  Just Easter Sunday, Jeri’s appetite and energy were up.  We had some Gerson juice and went to the beach to sit in the ocean for hours in the sun.  Below is a wonderful photo of her on that glorious day.

Jeri, Easter Sunday, 04/20/2014

Monday morning Jeri wasn’t well, and she went to Castle in an ambulance.  She was dehydrated with low potassium.  She was comfortable and happy and she and I had meaningful and loving conversations. She was transferred at the end of the day to Queens. 

Tuesday she completed a health directive with a notary, she met with Hospice nurses and signed up for their services.  She directed in the health directive that she did not want to be kept alive via artificial means for more than 2 days.  It was that morning that we were informed that Jeri’s kidneys were failing.  Jeri was prepped for a surgery to help her maintain her health.  The surgery was called off due to low blood pressure.  She was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the afternoon, around 4PM.  Later that day I was informed that Jeri’s heart was weak, it was pumping at 1/3 the strength of a healthy heart.  They would do what they could to stabilize her.  This was done successfully.  She would stay in the ICU.  Jeri communicated that she was tired and it was noisy in the ICU, she wanted to sleep and asked for sleep medication to help her sleep.  This would be the last time we communicated.

Wednesday morning shortly after midnight Jeri’s breathing became weak.  She was placed on an artificial respirator.  This process completed around 1:30am that morning. She had indicated that no one but family was to visit her.  Family came from all over the island to see her.  Her room was often so full that nurses needed to ask some of the family to wait outside in the lobby.  It was very emotional, but so many people that loved Jeri had time to be with her. There was joy mixed in the sadness as stories of Jeri were shared. 

Thursday brought some beloved family members from off island.  More family came to visit, some coming back again to be with her.  Jeri amazed doctors, who had all stated from Wednesday morning that Jeri could, “go any time.”

On Friday, April 25, 1:30am per Jeri’s wishes, she was taken off artificial means of life support.                 

At 2:40am, Jeri’s battle with cancer ended and she went to heaven.

  

For more announcements, including funeral location and times.  Please check this site for updates.

Send questions, comments or prayers to welovejeri@gmail.com.

Please RSVP with estimated head count for the funeral to this email address as well. 

We will be compiling video stories of Jeri for our son Jonah to better know his mother as he gets older.  It is requested that you post video to Jeri's or Hal's Facebook account, where we can download it and compile it for him. 

Mahalo Nui Loa

Hal Fraser for Jeri Fraser

A note on giving

When Jeri was diagnosed with cancer, we had some funds to fight, but the out of pocket cost to fight cancer with alternative methods was sobering.  A friend of mine told me of a friend who had raised more than $30,000 for alternative treatment through www.gofundme.com.

After getting Jeri’s blessing (she was very private and had not told many people) I talked with some friends, and we began working to make a page for Jeri to raise funds.

We started the page www.gofundme.com/team-jeri.

Once we announced that Jeri was battling cancer, every day had donations from people who loved Jeri. 

Jeri was concerned about the costs of treatment, but those donations gave her the courage to do all she could to win her battle with cancer.  They raised her spirit.

The donations, the remembrance of so many loved ones who cared to help, the prayers offered, the love and support—it was the light of day in dark times.

God bless you!

Hal Fraser for Jeri Fraser

Treatments for Health

As you may know, the lung cancer that Jeri had would not be a good candidate for most of the traditional therapies of surgery and radiation.  The odds for success with chemotherapy were low.

These are the things that Jeri started recently to help beat cancer, in no order:

1. Healing touch: This method of healing had the highest immediate gratification for Jeri.  She always slept deeply during her 1-2 hour sessions.  Sometimes she needed more sleep than she got, and this was a great blessing.  She also felt better, could move more easily and usually came home and slept deeply at home following this treatment as well.  This was so helpful had begun to do it every day for her to feel her best.

2. Massage: Our neighbor is a professional massage therapist.  Jeri had swelling in her legs that Mona massaged and it provided temporary relief. 

3. Acupuncture: Jeri did this with two practitioners.  She had benefitted from acupuncture in the past with the flu and other ailments.  In this case, Jeri appreciated the treatments, but they were not able to provide long term relief of symptoms.

4. Intravenous Vitamin C: This is the treatment Jeri received the most.  At her previous stay in at Queens, her Oncologist had agreed to install a port so that Jeri could best receive large doses of vitamin C into her body.  The vitamin C looks like sugar to cancer cells, who thrive on sugar.  The vitamin C changes the pH in the cell from acidic to basic, killing the cancer cell.

5. GcMAF: This seemed to be a very promising serum.  The body produces GcMAF naturally, and high levels of the substance in the body correlate with a very active immune system. When there is chronic disease such as cancer and AIDS, the GcMAF levels are suppressed by the disease.  By receiving injections of this substance, then Jeri was giving her body the best chance to beat cancer.

6. Heat therapy: Cancer cells have a lower tolerance for heat than healthy cells.  Jeri would lie on a mat called a BioMat and it would heat her up, relaxing muscles and cooking cancer cells.  This gave Jeri many days of relief from muscle aches and aided in helping her to sleep.
7. Foods rich in vitamin B17.  There are many foods that have this substance in higher concentrations, like apricot kernals and the seeds of an apple.  This substance is attributed to keeping cancer away in populations that eat diets rich in it.
On top of this we purchased enough supplements to fill a GNC store.  Sadly, Jeri had lost the ability to keep pills down and was unable to continue with this. 
I never learned more about health than when I started reading about disease.  The following were books that I found most useful in looking for ways to help Jeri beat cancer:

·         Bill Henderson’s Cancer Free, Third Edition gave me a world of hope for the body healing itself when given the right nutrition.

·         Charlotte Gerson’s The Gerson Therapy: The Proven Nutritional Program for Cancer and Other Illnesses had many practical and tested methods for fighting cancer.

·         G. Edward Griffin’s World without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17. Half or more of this book goes into incredible depth plumbing theories of how chemotherapy become the main treatment for cancer in the US, who is making money off the sick and more.  I found real value in learning of populations I had never heard of that were cancer free, and this told of more than one group and the diets rich in B17 that made it possible.  This information I found fascinating.

Many friends offered advice and help.  We were given gifts of healthful fruit extracts, cancer beating tinctures, healing aromatic oils…and much more.  Most importantly, you could fill Aloha Stadium with all the people who were praying for her and the family.

We were so very blessed.

We are so grateful.  

Hal Fraser for Jeri Fraser

Sunning for Health

Hi Everyone,

Just some photos of me outside getting some sun.

Vitamin D is an important vitamin that most people are missing because they're not outdoors in the sun for enough hours, just like me.

It is one of the vitamins that I need for recovery from my cancer and it also feels really good doing it.

Thinking of all of you as I enjoy the simple pleasures of life, soaking in the sun.

Jeri