Mark and I in Dr. Scholz’s office.
An Open Letter to All My Family & Friends
Hello Everyone!
As many of you know from my ongoing blog posts below, we are stepping up our medical and integrative treatments based on the advice of my new medical team.
After my visit with Dr. Mark Scholz, we are expecting to begin a relatively mild form of chemotherapy (taxotere) in a few months or sooner, and some applied radiation on some bone metastasis sooner. I will continue with my ADT (hormone) therapy protocol indefinitely.
On the integrative side, I will be doing vitamin C infusions and a special protocol of supplements and diet prescribed by Dr. Marcel Hernandez.
Here is our new fundraiser to raise money for this.
Ongoing: my meditation practice, energy healings, yoga, strength training, special diet, and lifestyle changes that promote the following ten Radical Remissions elements into my life:
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Changing your diet
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Taking control of your health
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Following your intuition
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Using herbs and supplements
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Releasing suppressed emotions
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Increasing positive emotions
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Embracing social support
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Deepening your spiritual connection
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Having strong reasons for living
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Exercise
What is my prognosis? My UCLA medical team will tell you that any treatment is now palliative, not curative. Dr. Scholz, Dr. Martinez, Dr. Jeffrey Rediger (“Cured”) and “Radical Remissions” author Kelly Turner, however, give me more hope. No one can tell you how long I will live with this condition, which on the books is considered a permanent and slow growing cancer, treatable but at my stage (4) not curative.
However, I am truly convinced I CAN heal from this, and will.
I am in no pain right now, thanks to some integrative treatments and the effects of the hormone therapy at the source of the bone where I began to experience discomfort. I am declaring myself heading into complete remission, but will do everything my top medical team advises in harmony with my own intuition and decision making based on my highly proactive research.
My partner Mark is extraordinary. His support is gifting me with a powerful desire to heal and live, in every way and in every day. And he reminds me, when I despair over affording this new level of care, that I have incredible support all around me.
I have largely stepped back from the company I created with my business partner, while I continue to be able to work briskly with my private clients. This was truly a grieving process; I had wanted this business to support any remission if it occurred, and to also support a robust retirement, but running a business means not taking the time to heal.
But, something wonderful is coming out of all of this…
A deeper understanding of my role in both the limitation of my business growth and my healthcare trajectory has emerged, and from this point of power comes a new commitment to an incredible and evolving expression of love and service to all.
And, like the lotus in the mud, an unexpected treasure has emerged; my deep love of coaching has begun to flourish as an actual practice.
I credit a powerful weekend with Devon Bandison for this insight, and for introducing me to a new term for my condition - “somethin’ / nothin’”. Because, it is indeed something that is front and center in my life - but ultimately it is a nothin’, has no substance, because as I step into an incredible degree of commitment and action to clear the condition through loving it with a wide range of treatment protocols, ultimately it has no real substance, as the reality of life is divine immortality.
As part of my integrative medical approach, I have a profound and heartfelt calling to go to India for one month, where I have been accepted at a yoga teaching ashram. I would be housed in very simple, almost spartan conditions, without internet, eating simple vegan meals, and participating in the same yoga as teachers, but not getting the training. I would be able to completely devote myself to my meditation practice and to all healing techniques I have learned in the last two years.
Going to India will, however, depend on covering some commitments to two of my clients during the period from November 27 - December 22nd, and the ability to continue to do the treatments my doctors are prescribing. I am looking for someone to train with me to help me with these and other parts of my business. Do you know anyone who loves coaching and is technologically gifted?
It will also depend on me generating enough money through my One Field Live project initiative. This project is intended to allow me to keep my home and help me pay my healthcare expenses and fare to India.
Staying in India, however, will relatively be very inexpensive. I have recently been connecting with a yoga community who is very familiar with this well known yoga training center.
Mark and I will be creating a GoFundMe donation platform for support.
Another thing that will truly support me is to contact me for my coaching services.
Here is a link, in the meantime, to offer donations!
Donate
Hearts For “Richard” - the name I have given my condition.
Somethin’ / Nothin’
aka: “Richard”
Today was the day where I finally, I believe, fully accepted my condition.
It is a very, very tough day.
Unless my family and friends believe I have been too esoteric and “out there” in my perspective and treatment approach, I assure you I am aware of the following.
I have a diagnosis of Stage 4 metastatic disease (prostate cancer) that has spread to seven areas of my bones. No organs have been involved yet.
I am doing everything the doctors are telling me to do, and even changing my team to one of the most prestigious doctors (Dr. Mark Scholz) out there. I have received second and third opinions.
I am also, in support of my primary allopathic treatment, doing every means of integrative healing I am able, constrained only by my current resources, and I am working, with my partner Mark, to raise money to afford the treatments not covered by my insurance. My dear family and friends raised money in 2020 and 2021, and it saved my life, however I am also significantly in debt for my treatment this year. But I have a plan.
The hardest part of this is letting go of the business I expected to grow with my partner, Adam, who went his own way. The path of healing is the path of stress-less living, so navigating these circumstances, and releasing both my dreams for this One Field Media, and also my hope of supporting my healing financially and independently, is indeed a prime challenge.
The wonderful lotus in the proverbial mud: my final One Field project will be to launch a donation based weekly live / virtual event to support my new coaching practice, promote my clients work, continue my gift of trios service to the community - and support continuing to live in the space where I wish to heal.
My clients are my greatest supporters and also some of my best friends. Those who have come to me to build their platforms, produce their events and support delivering their education and their message, have truly been the wind beneath my wings. I only wish there were more of me to go around…above all, I want to be here, always, for my family and friends.
Actually, here is the hardest part. To experience, after two years of treatment, actual pain at the source of a metastasis, and to fear my life of health will be over, and that it is all downhill from here. To give full voice and full expression to this terror - and then to bring it back to the ocean of love, self-forgiveness, acceptance and mercy, knowing that God is truly with me every instant, guiding me with infinite grace and healing - and that I am worthy of this healing, and of radical remission!
- Shannon, October 12, 2022
Yep. It’s Back.
or
THE JOY OF CANCER
October 2, 2022
Today is the first day I felt my cancer. There is a sore space on my right rib, the first bone lesion detected on the PET scan about a year ago.
This was a wake up call, but it had been preceded by, last week, a direct message from Spirit - with the assistance of some psilocybin therapy I have been using.
Mark and I were in the Sequoias, and I was meditating under a tree as the psilocybin began taking effect. I heard a direct message: “you are very sick”.
Those who know me are aware I do not do drugs, or any substances, recreationally, and notable exceptions are a handful of times (3) I have done hallucinogens in a therapeutic environment. I don’t smoke, drink, and moderate even caffeine and sugar constantly, and all animal products. My notable exception with plant medicine is due to the remarkable support 2 weeks in the Amazon with ayahuasca gave me prior to my diagnosis, and proved extraordinary in giving my healing a jumpstart.
If you are familiar with therapy involving hallucinogens, you are aware you often experience messages that may be quite disturbing, but are experienced in the context of the healing and love that is specific to the plant medicine you are working with. So, this message brought a direct experience of grief, but as I wandered through these ancient and powerful woods, under the protection of my spiritual masters, I received messages of healing: 1) Become like water: flow, dissolve rigidity 2) Reduce the work you are doing 3) Focus on self-love, self-care and nurturing 4) Bring forward your strength.
This last message I received from the tree you see above. A fire had recently encroached these magnificent woods, and the tree was partly burned. It had a deep and hollow cave within, and I climbed down to meditate. Immediately I knew this was “my tree”. I felt the presence of what I felt were Native American spirits, and I was gifted a large “strength stick”. I felt that, like the burned forest, I would survive.
When I returned home, sure enough; the PET scan I had recently taken showed six new bone lesions, and PSMA uptake involving several organs, as well as several glands and lymph nodes. I had made the decision a few weeks ago to undergo additional hormone therapy couples with a new pharmaceutical apalutamide, and will be seeing my doctor to go over the results this week for more treatment recommendations.
So why “the joy of cancer”?
Cancer has been describes as “God’s reset button”. Other healers have mentioned, aside from the medical and allopathic elements, cancer is often a resistance to something, such as some part of your life you wish to move forwards in. Cancer can be linked to repressed emotional expression, and above all, to stress. This is aside from the somatic and allopathic elements.
Cancer has been shown to respond to lifestyle changes such as joy, laughter, life purpose, community, exercise, and a strong will to live: life purpose. There are additional dietary and supplemental treatments, all of which I have been using and exploring. I have plans to move into ayurveda, ozone therapy, acupuncture, massage, reiki, and continuing my dietary and exercise regime.
While the joy in your life is restorative and must be proactively brought into your life through conscious play, rest, relaxation, meditation and purposeful activities that bring you happiness, being authentic and feeling your unpleasant emotions is especially important to me; I am apt to gild the lilies a lot with my real state of mind, and play brave. I am currently completing a five day fast that brought forwards a lot of anger. I wanted - so badly - to drug these feelings with food (a real lifestyle change I struggle with)
On the medical side, I may be undergoing further radiation, and possibly now, chemotherapy. Different doctors suggest different thing. What’s exciting is my most recent involvement with Dr. Mark Scholz, who I have been reading ever since my first diagnosis. While my UCLA doctors prognosis feels cynical, Dr. Scholz’s videos and writings give me hope.
I will be asking for support moving forwards with expenses. During the last year of partial remission, I focused on building a business that I had high hopes for launching into greater and greater abundance with a solid growth plan - I wanted to generate income for further treatments, as my PSA began to show up again. The business did well, but at the very point of launch there occurred a somewhat shocking series of events that essentially dismantled the project and the investment I made in it.
Now, I have the perfect clients, and am stepping back as much as I can, and focusing entirely on saving the business by launching the final piece of One Field, One Field Live! This is the perfect flowering of my entelechy here on this planet.
More than anything, I invite you to celebrate everything in your life and in others, knowing that all is “for us”, all is in honor of our up-liftment and growth, even challenges such as this. Please hold the knowledge on this page as sacred, and honor it not with sympathy or negative thoughts, regrets or sorrow about this prognosis, but rather celebrate the opportunity for me to move further into the joy of healing, which is truly the joy of all living!
For those who are called, I welcome your healing and Light towards my physical body. And, because this webpage is private only for those in my community and for my friends and family, as always I keep it updated with all medical information. See below for my latest results.
Love, Light, Joy!
Shannon
ONCOLOGIC FINDINGS:
No suspicious PSMA uptake in the prostate bed. q
Stable low PSMA uptake, in several anatomically stable bilateral inguinal
and right external iliac nodes, favor reactive.
Increase of now intermediate PSMA uptake in the treated right femoral neck
sclerotic metastasis, grossly anatomically stable.
Interval increase of now high PSMA uptake in a right 11th rib
posterolateral border segmental lesion.
Multiple new low to intermediate PSMA avid (SUV max up to 5.1)
subcentimeter sclerotic osseous lesions in the right femoral neck adjacent
to the greater trochanter (5-475), in the right iliac bone (5-402), the
lower sternum left border (5-254), L3 vertebral body (5-338), T6 (5-208)
and right humeral head (5-154).
ADDITIONAL FINDINGS:
PET:
Physiologic PSMA uptake is noted in the lacrimal and salivary glands,
nasopharynx, vocal cords, gastrointestinal tract (especially duodenum),
spleen, liver, both kidneys, ureters and the urinary bladder, and testes.
For SUV reference:
SUVmean/max parotid/salivary glands 12.9/16.1 (fused series 5- image 92)
SUVmean/max right hepatic lobe 7.9/9.0 (fused series 4- image 174)
SUVmean/max descending thoracic aorta (level carina) 1.7/2.4 (fused series
5- image 251)
PSMA-expression score*:
High (3): SUV parotid/salivary glands
Intermediate (2): SUV liver
Low (1): SUV blood pool
CT:
HEAD AND NECK:
Unremarkable.
CHEST:
Lungs: Multiple bilateral lung micronodules, upper lobe predominant, none
with PSMA uptake, although too small to resolve, to follow as clinically
warranted.
Lymph nodes and Mediastinum: No PSMA-avid lymph nodes. Previously
described prominent chest nodes are no longer significantly PSMA avid,
likely prior reactive changes.
Pleura: Unremarkable.
Cardiovascular: Unremarkable.
Bilateral mild gynecomastia.
ABDOMEN/PELVIS:
Liver: Unremarkable.
Gallbladder and bile ducts: Few calcified gallbladder stones.
Spleen, pancreas, adrenals: Unremarkable.
Kidneys and ureters: Unremarkable.
Bowel: Diverticulosis.
Bladder and reproductive organs: Underdistended bladder. Prostatectomy.
Lymph nodes: as above.
Peritoneum: Unremarkable.
Vessels: Unremarkable.
Abdominal wall: Unremarkable.
MUSCULOSKELETAL:
As above.
Was I Healed?
If you have been following my journey, you will see that I had a session with a faith healer, and had high expectations that I had been healed from my prostate cancer, as he assured I had been.
With my PSA having continually climbed after this event, how do I stand on this session, and with Byron, the devout Christian who had told me I was healed?
So, you may assume the answer would be no, or even that I had been duped, perhaps at the very risk of my own life.
I see things a little differently.
I believe I was healed - or rather, that I am, essentially, healed.
Byron is truly with God, or his personal experience of God. He believes he healed me, I believe.
I do not know if waiting on doing the medical treatment the doctors recommended in service to my faith in this healing has ultimately shortened my life, or if the trajectory of my own faith and commitment to my healing was ultimately enhanced. Possibly the path I chose will get me a little more serious about integrating the allopathic with the integrative for a more holistic approach.
I do know I found Byron lovely and delightful, and resonated with our shared love of Christ (him as an evangelical, me as a devotee of Yogananda). I enjoyed going to Kansas and meeting him.
The ultimate truth is that even when this incarnation passes, I am Healed. I am, essentially, Ultimate Healing. My essence is God Awareness, beyond the constraints of the ego and the body. Byron may indeed have healed me through the Christ, and I just need to learn more lessons before this condition is healed - which it will be.
Love, Light, Joy!
Shannon, Oct. 2, 2022
UPDATE: JUNE 26, 2022
Today is June 26, 2022. Despite my hopes, prayers and a great deal of faith, my recent PSA is 6.75.
Although I still have faith in the healing I described below, I am committing to returning to an aggressive medical treatment of radiation, hormone therapy and perhaps chemotherapy.
Additionally, I am continuing the Radical Remissions methods in my daily life with great success.
Friends, so many of you have supported me with this fundraiser, and have not even requested the vinyl in return. Because of this, I will be selling my entire collection to Amoeba to help me with my treatment, however please reach out if there is a title you love that you would like to be gifted with.
All My Love, Light & Joy,
Shannon
HEALED!
Dear Beloved Friends, Healing Team and Supporters,
After years of practicing and learning about “radical remission”, a wholesale miracle has taken place. My lifestyle changes, the spiritual, physical, emotional and mental work I have been done, the generous and masterful applications of my healing team, and the stupendous financial, emotional and loving support of my community, the incredible healing I have been provided with has manifested now in a truly dramatic way.
The community One Field has been nurturing in Seattle came forward and supported me in seeing Byron Wade, a healer in Chanute, Kansas, who cleared the frequency of the cancer, effectively breaking the growth in my body. Thanks to Brent Jones, Adam Douglas Heyes and Jennifer Le Faive for facilitating and financially supporting this trip!
My recent PSA reflects there has been no growth since he did this a month ago.
I have postponed all medical treatment in context to this healing. Byron Wade is a devout Christian, and the healing is a direct intervention through the Christ.
As many of you know, Christ is part of the yoga practice that I have been initiated in, and to have such a direct experience of Jesus was overwhelming, and still evolving in my consciousness and practice.
I will say more; I am here on this earth now, and One Field has gently grabbed me and lovingly demanded my attention. It is saying, you are here, and now you have a mission and a directive to be of even greater service.
So, I’ll sign off for now, and connect with my powerful coaches and teachers to serve them and those they serve.
If you are reading this, you have made this miracle happen. You are of God, of the Christ, of stardust and moonbeams and sunshine, you crazy kids you. Let us rejoice every day in the sunshine of the Spirit, and may we awaken love in all hearts!
Love,
Shannon
In Kansas with white armband, February 2022
Million Dollar Records
(below is the archive of my journey, preserved for posterity. Thank you all of my angels!)
Once again, I am opening up this project to support further treatment, and build joy and community!
But this time, I am not only selling my vinyl, but my services.
HOW TO SUPPORT
MOST RECENT PROGNOSIS (1/28/22, 2/10/22)
My PSA score jumped from .5 to 2.1, and in just over one week 2.9, a very high escalation (PSA scores after radical prostatectomy are considered reliable cancer detectors). I am proceeding with the Saturn trial (see below), and have created a new Healing Plan for 2022. I will send the details out to my supporters and community. Because of this escalation, I am scrambling to get another PSMA scan, and again it may prove to be life saving.
At the bottom of this page, I will add the letter I sent about what I have learned about this condition…and what I am doing about it beyond the aliopathic.
(11/19/21)
Everyone has been so active in asking me my test results; I am so honored by everyone’s concern and love.
So, the MRI on the prostate bed revealed no cancer. I am thankful; after the surgery and radiation / hormone therapy, I am glad this area has healed.
And, thanks to your help, I was able to get the PSMA scan. Here is more information about it.
The scan revealed an isolated “oligometastatic” tumor of the right rib, single instance of distant metastases bone lesion. Here is the location:
This result enables me to enter the Saturn trial; here are more details. Will I do it? Read below:
I decided, with your support, to go to a urologist recommended to me by my teacher, Ron Hulnick. He served Ron as well as his teacher, John-Roger. His name is Mark Kelly, and he is highly regarded in the industry, as well as wise to the many dimensions of the disease on emotional, physical, mental and spiritual levels. He is presenting my case to an extraordinary board of urologists, some of the best, including those I currently work with, and I have a consultation with them 12/14. This information as well as my own intuition and wisdom will guide my choices moving forwards, to enter the trial, or another path as recommended.
Here is the meeting I had yesterday with Dr. Kelly. I am posting it as it is the latest update on my healing. You can see the kind of doctor he is, and what he brings to the table. I am following up with the oncologist he recommends.
And, as you may know, I am also addressing this comprehensively beyond the allopathic arena.
The other healing I am bringing into my life is truly comprehensive and multidimensional. It is too much to go into here, but it consists of meditation, QiGong, radical diet changes, regular and intense exercise, Reiki, work with intuition and dream incubation, herbs and supplements, excavating emotional blocks and energetic healing, and making decisions that increase joy and my will to live. I use a healing diary also, which is clarifying life choices which emphasize time in nature (I have been trying to move out of LA to a more natural location for over a year), loving my sexuality, deep relaxation and stress reduction, running my business in harmony with my own well-being, visualization, creative expression and more.
Folks, a lot of this may be confusing: why is this prostate cancer on my rib (it was on my hip last year)? What stage is the cancer? A lot of these questions may also be answered by this page and the entries I created from last year. It is a very complicated subject, of course.
I want to mention I am regarding this part of my life as a blessing, in so many ways, and as a very deep teacher. This is not starry-eyed goofiness; I respect the element of mortality - the cancer is rated as a 9 on the Gleeson scale, and it has begun to appear around the body - but a significant element of my healing is transforming fear into action, learning and loving!
In addition to the wonderful and loving friends who have supported me financially by donating to my vinyl fundraiser (many of them not even asking for albums!) I would like to mention these angels below who have gifted their incredible healing to me with guidance and their own mastery and services.
If I have left anyone out, please remind me so I can honor you! It is important for me to keep all of you close to me and to honor your contributions.
Healing Angels
Alisha Das
Dr. Andree Leroy
Mark Cote
Adam Heyes and Maria Healer
Alaya Love
Elisha Bokman
Paula Majeski
Kirk Souder
Eric Kufs
Blake Langdale
Mark Kelly, MD
Jeffrey Rediger, MD, author of “Cured”
Stephen, Nick and Patricia Lloyd
Tracy and Tony Wazny
Susan and Jon Bilbo
Robin and Jeff Price
Phil Wazny
Allison Ingels
Susan Chance
Robert Holland
Cary Weldy
Joel Peters (Satyajit)
Jordan Bloch
Lesley Wirth
Graciala Casas-Silva
Isabelle Muckenhirn
Miranda Richardson
Jay Schuette
Alexandra Diez-Barroso
RaShawn-Reneé
Claudia Flores
Paramahansa Yogananda
John-Roger
Jesus Christ
The amazing and extraordinary friends who supported my last year with my vinyl fundraiser and medical expenses!
These listed above who supported me financially this year
RECENT PROGNOSIS (11/9/21)
As often happens with prostate cancers that travel outside the organ and into bone and lymph nodes, a recurrence of PSA was detected once my testocerone returned fully after hormone treatment.
The good news is it has been detected early. My urologist and oncologist are recommending entrance into the SATURN trial, which I am eligible for if I get a PSMA scan. It is expected that the treatment in the trial, hormone therapy with a third agent added and focused radiation treatment, will be effective.
However I am also called to address this on the holistic and naturopathic levels as well. Much of this is not covered by insurance, so I will be offering my remaining vinyl collection to supporters of this campaign.
Sundays at 7 PM: I will be spinning my vinyl live for you! (excluding CHH weekends)
https://www.mixcloud.com/live/shannon-lloyd2/
New updated video message, October 28, 2021
…now introducing: Million Dollar Records 2021!
How To Support.
I am selling my long-curated vinyl collection to raise money for my prostate cancer treatment.
I may never get to “a million”, but everything that comes in will help me get the newest round treatment I am seeking!
I love to receive, and it’s a big part of my healing, but you can support me just as much by bringing me business - and let me provide services to you.
In “Radical Remissions” there is an amazing story about a woman who received help from her community, since she was a low paid teacher…but she realized it was actually a reciprocity, as she was giving back by receiving…
And, I would love to give back by providing…the last few years I have paid myself a shoestring to build a business to serve the community - including acquiring a space just recently, which can make money and also give me a healthy place to stay. The business is nearly built now, and will launch with your help!
Here’s my business website for my services.
This is to book our new studio space at a super discounted rate.
Here’s my page for my coaching services.
With everything going on, my heart’s joy is to be of service. Your support brings me to tears, truly.
Donate
Live Events 2020
These were all to support this initiative and to thank everyone. Lots of music for you to enjoy!
Last Friday was spectacular, and I wanted to share the event with all of you! My sweet and amazing friend and incredible singer/songwriter Eric Kufs did my mixtape live in his regular Friday night performance to raise money for million dollar vinyl.
This is the actual Mixtape of the original songs I chose also! Devour.
Eric did a post about this DJ set and our friendship. It’s one of my favorite things, ever.
Here is our Donations Gratitude Live DJ Set (and happy birthday to my Dad) from this Sunday. Lots of scratchy oldies vinyl played so be prepared for analog crunch…
I guess, despite everything, I’m pretty excited. I have been wanting to “go live” with my collection for awhile, to fully live into the experience of this music with this music vlog - and ultimately, to release attachment to this cherished collection. The videos I create will be so damn fun, and hopefully boffo delightful for you all!
The Music
Here is a link to “new” vinyl. (Please note: there are a lot of new titles recently added in the last year!)
These are records purchased in the last five years that are generally in perfect or really good condition.
(OK: disclaimer…I don’t know if this will be formatted by the time of the launch, but you can still wade through the formatting and discern…I promise I will format this block of copy ASAP. Service opp: anyone want to help? Contact me!)
Here is a link to “vintage” vinyl. These are records I have had for awhile… some of these are my most cherished items.
(See above disclaimer / service opportunity!)
Here is a Spotify playlist with some of the collection added, but I haven’t completed it entirely.
(See above disclaimer / service opportunity! I am adding music to this playlist as I format the doc)
Here is a video of me flipping through the whole collection, if you like a visual.
Donor and new friend Chad shares about his love of vinyl! Chad you are so much appreciated, and you have great taste!
So, choose your poison and send in your donation! Minimum donation is $50 a disk, and feel free to add anything extra you feel called to. I am eternally grateful for your support!
(Note: If you choose a disk where the resell value is more than the amount you donated - say, a high quality box set - I may contact you to let you know the market value so you can adjust your contribution or choose another vinyl)
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Donate And Pay: Details below. For list of vinyl to purchase, see links above!
My Paypal email is shannon@onefieldmedia.com, my Zelle is slloyd08@gmail.com.
Here is my Venmo info. If you send payment this way, email me your vinyl choice(s), if you would like to pick the item up in Silverlake, or have the item(s) shipped (please add $10 for cost) and your mailing address.
My mailing address for checks is:
Shannon Lloyd
11525 Chandler Blvd. #121
North Hollywood, CA 91601
(please specify if you’d like your donation to be anonymous, otherwise I will add it to the Donors roster below)
Please note. We are also tracking donations on Shannon’s Go Fund Me page. Current donors and donations are also there!
DONORS 2022
Tonia Klemetson $10
Ravi Bhojwani: $200
Vivek Munjal: $350
Donna Bond $135
Claudia Flores $1000
Ayman Samman $500
DONORS 2021
Anonymous: $100
Shannon Lloyd: $1000
Ravi Bhojwani: $100
Lisa Peake: $100
Leah Page: $25
Danielle Schoenecker: $50
Susan Ryza: $100
Arlene Stepputat $100
Ayman Samman $100
Bonnie Samotin $50
Jonny Roman $100
Donna Bond $200
Ken Fisher $500
Dionne Blaha $100
Anonymous $200
Eileen Piersa $100
Nick Lloyd $75
David M. Green $50
Jenn Tyler $75
Tim Cloutier $250
Thanks to all the amazing people who supported me in 2020 to raise money for my surgery, scans, radiation, hormone therapy. You began the healing for me, and I know this final round will complete this journey with pure grace!
When I first got my diagnosis back then, I went through the most severe part of my treatment; I sent thank yous to everyone, but I’m not sure where the list of donors was. I would love to include you in this list, please send me a reminder. It is so wonderful to have everyone included on this page!
This also applies to those who gifted me with their treatments, coaching and all forms of support.
Hello everyone! As promised, I wanted to update everyone on my recent prognosis. All my love for making my ongoing healing possible!
New update 8/5/20. After speaking to my radiologist as well as some patient advocates, I now need to consider three options. 1) High powered radiation on the lesion in the bone (I am proceeding with this). This will be done in just a few sessions. 2) Hormone therapy with a possible combination of oral enhancers to create remission and potentially kill off microextensions of the cancer cells that may still be in the body performed over a period of six months (I am evaluating either doing this immediately or waiting to see if the PSA returns to normal after the radiation and incorporating a significant diet and lifestyle change recommended by my advocates which has often created the same effects. The challenge may also be that these lifestyle changes will be even more challenging with hormone therapy, whose side effects are significant in regards to fatigue and potential depression, as well as many other effects which can last as long as a year) and 3) Radiation on the prostate bed to kill microextensions in that area, due to the findings in one lymph node taken from a sample of 20 (there are hundreds). This, combined with the two above, is the most invasive and aggressive treatment option with 40 sessions 5 days a week).
Friends, I welcome any outreach if you can provide any knowledgeable and direct support to help me with this, such as knowledge of treatment alternatives and options or direct knowledge and referrals. So many of you have stepped forward with this already!
In a nutshell, the cancer is 9 on the Gleeson scale and metastasized in only one detectable area. Ongoing treatment is hormone therapy and focused radiation treatment for the next six months. The doctor considers the prognosis good and that this treatment could be curative. I know it will be.
The red dot on the hip marks the spot
New update: 12/15: My PSA is now undetectable! I have two more months of hormone therapy, after which they will monitor my PSA in six months.
Here’s our progress!
Goal #1 is $3000 to get my PSMA PET scan.
Goal #1 completed! I am getting my PSMA scan! I am so deeply grateful to all those who have stepped forwards; this scan could save my life! I love you all!
Goal #2 is to pay off my surgery bills.
Goal #3 is for radiation, hormone therapy and any treatment that may be needed pending result of PET scan.
Goal #3 completed! The final goal is to pay off the outstanding surgery bills.
Not down with the music…wait! All media must go! Here is an amazing film collection for you to peruse also. If you like some of these, I ask you to Google the market price for these items to base your donation on.
Update 7/21: many of these have gone already, but let me know what you you are looking for!
A Healing Plan
I sent this letter to select members of my community in January 2022 - and now I’d like to share it with all of you.
Hello Beloved Friends and Family!
I believe most of you are aware that I have been dealing with this situation for the last two years. As often happens, my prostate cancer diagnosis has shifted in a very interesting way after my treatment last year. (I have updated my fundraising page with all the details).
Briefly, the aggressive medical approach of 2020 created a remission, however once the testocerone in my body returned from the nearly year long hormone therapy, my PSA became detectable again (when your prostate is removed, PSA is more directly considered a marker of cancer presence than in those with prostates). I waited three months after this test result to see if my healing methods were working; if the PSA stayed the same that would be very encouraging, and if it doubled I decided that would be the indicator to enter the Saturn trial at UCLA, with focused radiation and a trial regime of hormone therapy.
The PSA, however, actually quadrupled from .5 to 2.1, which is very significant.
After the first .5 test result, I moved into a natural healing routine, using an abundance of treatments, techniques and lifestyle changes. Here is a document that details what I have done so far, what I have learned, what I perceive is required for my healing based on all I have learned, as well as a schedule for healing. This document is private, and is only being shared with the trusted recipients of this letter.
The primary support for my healing is God, my spiritual/meditation practice, my continually practiced USM skills, the medical treatment, and Radical Remissions book and the nine pillars of healing (detailed in the doc). The work I have done with healers, doctors, coaches and teachers is inestimable, and the love and generosity of those who supported me financially so I can afford the treatments, even while living on a shoestring creating a startup company, is, even beyond the money, a profound and powerful source of “reciprocity and receiving” healing.
However, I am aware that I have not made the changes in my life necessary for remission, and my intention is to heal. And, I am proceeding with the Saturn trial.
I chose those of you who are receiving this because:
1. I am requesting either an appointment or a referral for a coaching session (Kamin, I reached out to you directly as well, and Andrea, I have already been gifted with a session from you). My awareness is that I need coaching in the area of money and diet (root cause: anxiety). My scores are pretty high for other areas.
Ron and Mary, because I have immersed myself in your training, my request to you is perhaps guidance on creating a Spirit led institution - work performance and manifestation being an area of behavior I seek change in - or, if a meeting isn’t graceful, inclusion on USM’s Love & Light list.
2. You are already on healing team, and I wanted to send out a single communication updating you on my status, and sharing my Healing Plan for 2022.
For anyone called to support, please contact me directly - all of you have already been more than generous!
As always, this condition has supported an extraordinary opportunity for very rapid upliftment and growth. I recognize that I may still need to learn what I need to learn from this condition (or, I have already learned, and my body is catching up). The good news also is that I have never been debilitated from the presence of cancer, because it hasn’t risen to that level, but it has been detected as potentially spreading throughout the body, and is rated medically as very aggressive.
I see myself as whole, healed and cured, within and beyond my current incarnation; God is in every cell of my body, and infinite power is within - beyond even the experience of mortality - however, I have One Field, my partner Mark, and a strong will to be here now and create!
Love, Light, Joy!
Shannon Lloyd
One Field
Founder and President
www.onefieldmedia.com
(818)841-1586
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