Alkalizing.......What the heck?

We are off to Houston tomorrow! We meet with doctors tomorrow afternoon.  Thanks to my dear friends and family for helping out with our kids........that is a huge relief for me! Travis is good at getting what he wants (the lawyer in him, I guess) so we were able to move up the surgical consult by 2 weeks. We meet with Dr. Spetzler next Tuesday!!! We are so anxious to quiz him on several questions we have about surgery. We feel that we haven't gotten many answers yet from the doctors. It's understandable without a biopsy, but of course we just want to know everything we can. Travis has been all over the internet on cancer sites and has taken his diet VERY seriously. What we eat has a very powerful affect on our health, for good or bad. He is on a kind of cleanse and eating only alkaline foods for the week. Apparently cancer cells cannot thrive in an alkaline environment.  So what is an alkaline diet? (I'm sure many of you, like me didn't know until now)  Basically, no sweets, sugar, meat, dairy, most fruits. What does that leave, you may ask? Lots and lots of veggies, mostly raw, some seeds, nuts and oil and 5 fruits: lemons, limes, grapefruit, tomatoes, avocado and watermelon (only sparingly).  Only foods that have an alkaline pH. He's been doing great on it for the past few days.......it's amazing! He will start eating a few other foods later but very moderately. He even has these pH test strips to test his own pH.  He is still showing to be acidic so it'll be interesting to watch that change. Boy, we are learning all kinds of things we never really thought about before. It's a bit overwhelming! 

Wish us luck in Houston!