The Adrian Warnock Christian Podcast / Blood Cancer Uncensored

The response to my series on divorce and remarriage and Dave Bish's sermon have been hugely encouraging.  We thought it might be interesting to have a podcast style conversation about it.  I hope this will be helpful for you if you are going through divorce right now, if you did so years ago, or if you would like to learn how to better support others.  What does the Bible say about divorce and remarriage and how can Christians help reduce the stigma associated with it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

We explore issues related to our risk of infections including COVD-19. Some of the issues we discuss are controversial and others would have different opinions. Each of us have to make our own decisions in consultation with our own doctors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Worried about omnicrom? Listen to this update on our four step plan to keep blood cancer patients and others with imnmune compromise safe: Warn, Test, Protect, Treat. Monoclonal antibodies and antivirals rapidly becoming available. Find out how YOU can get them. LEARN MORE AT https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/?s=COVID --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Adrian interviews El who spent the COVID19 pandemic being treated for Hodgkin Lymphoma.    --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Ebisidor Rasaki Nabena and Adrian Warnock talk about what it is like to be helping Nathaniel Nabena prepare for his forthcoming life saving stem cell transplant. His faith and hope are tangible but also based in the reality of the challenges they still face as a family.  The many miracles to date inspire confidence in the future.  I trust this will also inspire your hope in whatever challenges you are facing.  It is OK to also have tears at times.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Join the celebration as Adrian Warnock is joined by dad Ebisidor Rasaki Nabena and the family’s first supporter Sharyn MJ who is the driving force behind Nathaniel’s Angels and a publicity guru. Thank you to every single one of you who have donated, liked and shared. Don’t stop now. We do need to make sure that there is a buffer (in case he needs more treatment than hoped) and I know the family is keen to be able to also bless others. We will keep following this story as we pray Nathaniel has a smooth journey through his Stem cell transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital. You can also see the video:  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Nathaniel Nabena who is a nine year old who found himself in the right place at the right time when a very rare and very aggressive form of blood cancer attacked him.  Just 100 children a year are diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) a year in the UK. Imagine the odds that one of them should be a young boy who just happened to be in the country visiting to get a prosthetic eye fitted for a different condition.   Without modern medical treatment of chemotherapy, venetoclax and a stem cell transplant death would be certain. This would not have been available in Nigeria where he lived. In London Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the top places in the world to deal with this. Whilst he is not eligible for treatment under the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), doctors at the world-famous hospital have waived their fees dramatically reducing the cost to save this life.   One of the UK’s most popular national newspapers, The Mirror and its sister publication the Sunday People have been behind this case since February. Thanks to the generosity of their readers and others the initial chemotherapy has been paid for and was very successful.  But without another £200,000 being raised in the next ten days the window will close on following this treatment up with a stem cell transplant. He has a match which is itself a miracle. This treatment may well be curative and allow him to live a normal life.  Listen, like, comment  and share on all social media platforms and please donate if you can on GoFundMe.   https://www.gofundme.com/f/treatnathaniel  https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/desperate-family-boy-9-leukaemia-24020743  https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/adrian-interviews-father-of-9-year-old-aml-patient-with-10-days-to-save-his-life/ Video also available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eumKBaCLcaw and https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&v=3905098316240808 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

The challenges, the pitfalls, the lessons learnt from over 20 years of a personal journey and learning from others through her work Patient Power Join me as I interview Esther Schorr who is married to Andrew Schorr. Video is available at https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/how-can-patients-and-their-partners-or-carers-best-approach-a-blood-cancer-diagnosis-together/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Right now 1 in 30 Londoners are infective for COVID19 and the NHS here is in crisis. What do we know about how the body fights this disease. Why do some people end up in hospital?  How can a blood saturation monitor help you? What do we know about antibodies?How anti Covid spike protein antibodies are key to understanding the vaccine, monoclonal antibodies and also why some people with impaired immune systems such blood cancer don’t make antibodies and so tend to have more severe illness.   I also refer to my personal experience of failing a vaccine trial and needing to start soon on IVIG as well as enrolling in a monoclonal antibody covid19 prevention trial. An introduction to a series of articles on http://bloodcanceruncensored.com   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

This second discussion with our friendly physicist atheist was still not a slugfest (you can also see part one). We both intended to show that we can disagree agreeably. By the end I felt that in Billy Whizz I had a new friend. We spoke about absolute truth, morality, hope, and suffering. So covered loads of grounds. I feel I understood his perspective and I hope he understood mine. It is sad how rarely something like this happens, and if it inspires you to have a similar conversation, perhaps with a friend who does not believe in Jesus, we will both be encouraged. Is there anything we didn't cover you would have liked us to? You can also watch the video: https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/08/adrian-meets-billy-the-atheist-the-rematch/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

This episode is a discussion with a new friend I have met as a result of my recent COVID19 article.  Billy Whizz (Richard Harvey) is an atheist with a physics degree described by a mutual facebook friend as a seeker after truth. Billy asked a couple of questions in the comments section including whether I was really implying only Christians could be scientists (I wasn't of course!) And it seemed to me that this would be a great person to have a conversation with. This video mostly focussed on what we agree on. The need to be thoughful of others not just yourself in this epidemic. Just how big a problem this really is for the world. And our shared concern about conspiracy theorists. We did discuss to what extent Christianity had been behind the resurgence of Science in Europe. Martin Luther and the printing press even got a mention. I really enjoyed this conversation so much we are thinking of doing another. What would you like an atheist and a Christian to talk about? What questions should I put to Billy or he put to me? We proved today that it IS possible to talk about things when you have very different beliefs. Oh that we as Society would relearn how to disagree agreeably. I hope you enjoy this. The video is also available here: https://patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/08/corona-truth-tel…illy-the-atheist/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

This episode is about   Christians and truth-telling about COVID19. The response has been very encouraging.  It seems that many people share my concerns about how some Christians have been sharing things that are simply not true about COVID19 conspiracy theories. One point of clarification - I have since learnt that this is not an American-only problem. There are indeed some UK Christians sharing such things also, I just haven't noticed them in my feed. And there are also of course many USA Christians who would hold a similar pro-science pro-truth line to what I am trying to share in this podcast and the article on which it is based.  The Video and original article can be found here: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/08/christians-must-stop-lying-about-covid19/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

A very difficult childhood. Bereaved of her father at the age of nine. Taken into care. A teenage rebel. Bereaved again of her beloved sister when a young mum. Ten years of severe chronic pain due to a degenerative back condition requring multiple operations. Damaged beyond repair?  Lost her faith? Absolutely not! Listen to this interview and prepare to be inspired as you face your own emotional challenges.  Video also available: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/07/coping-with-lifes-challenges-the-role-of-friends-and-therapy/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Join me as I interview leading Christian  thinker and author Prof John  Lennox. What does human and artificial intelligence tell us about the  existance of God and our place in the universe? We mention Dr. Jordan B. Peterson several times during this discussion as well as Timothy Keller .  Few people are really challenging the roots of our defective modern culture more than Peterson, Keller, and Lennox. The goal is to stimulate people to really think. This discussion is not hard to follow, we do not use complex terms, but I pray it will help you explore your most fundamental assumptions about the meaning of life, and in particular our place in the universe. We talk about a personal relationship with God, and how whilst suffering poses us questions, to give an atheist answer doesn't take away the pain it only takes away the hope.  The video is also available: https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/06/live-john-lennox-on-suffering-hope-and-intelligence --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Something special is happening here in Britain. Similar reports are coming in from around the world.  I never imagined I would be able to type the next sentence: Since lock down 1 in 4 British people have attended an online service. That is an astonishing figure. And if you look at young adults the proportion is even higher at one in three! All this was reported in The Guardian which is not exactly known for being pro-church. And in breaking news this morning, 70% of church leaders report a rise in church attendance. For sure if they all turn up the first week after lockdown our buildings will be completely swamped and overwhelmed. Some churches are having double the number of virtual attendees than they did back “in real life”. See this article for more background to the interview: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2020/06/covid-19-revival/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Listen to this if you need a bit of hope from one of the World's Leading Experts in CLL. Just how risky is catching COVID19 for blood cancer patients?   Should we be stuck indoors alone for many more months? Can we begin to cautiously emerge? How do we wiegh the very real risk from COVID-19, against the very real costs of shielding which include risks to people's health and even life. Prof Peter Hillmen urges people who get sick to come to hospital as normal and explains how doctors and nurses are working hard to keep people safe.   We talk about the so-called entry strategy including vaccines, antibody tests, how to know if it is safe to go out, and his optimistic view that shielding will likely be gradually relaxed rather than suddenly lifted at the end of June. He believes that soon Covid19 will be behind us all and be remembered as a strange blip that caused a lot of trouble but which got eradicated. Watch the video here https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/covid-19-and-blood-cancer-an-experts-view-with-prof-peter-hillmen/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Watch this friendly and easy to understand two part interview  with one of the top specialist doctors in the World on this form of blood cancer. Prof Hillmen explained why treatment is often not offered initially, how that can be very worrying for patients, and how they decide when it is time to consider treatment. He explained that there are currently two strategies: to try and aim to get rid of the disease as much as possible or even cure CLL (FCR or venetoclax containing combinations) , the second is to try and to co-exist with it under control (ibrutinib or acalabrutinib) We discussed the need to have skilled expert care available to at least advise your doctors at crucial times. Some local teams will work very closely with the top experts and refer to them for help with unusual problems and to consider for clinical trials when appropriate. Prof Hillmen has a  very personable friendly manner, and explained some complicated things in a very simple user-friendly way. Prof Hillmen has worked in clinical research to find new treatments for Chronic Lymphocytic since the 1990s. He is optimistic for our future. Like other blood cancers we are now seeing patients living a lot longer than earlier in his disease. He said "the outcome in terms of lifespan is now similar to patients without CLL". However, he doesn't minimise the impact this condition can have on people due to increased infection risk and fatigue. Both of these can happen even quite early in the disease. He explained, "CLL is a disease of the immune system getting quite old and tired, really." Watch the video  https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/video-prof-peter-hillmen-global-expert-explains-cll/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Put this on repeat and relax. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Grabbed some time with Andrew Schorr from Patient Power. Was great to hear about how he was one of the first cohort of patients to be treated with FCR chemotherapy for CLL, a form of blood cancer, a couple of decades ago. He hadn't expected to survive his Blood Cancer this long, nor to get a second one and be successfully treated for that too.    This is a story of hope.  And a story of a man convinced that the Universe spared him for a purpose and a mission. As he said doctors better listen to him and his patient friends, or else!  Be encouraged. Be inspired to give something back to the Blood Cancer community and to go on learning together. Watch video here https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/super-survivor-andrew-schorr-beat-two-blood-cancers-and-is-still-fighting-for-patients/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message

Dr Brian Koffman is a modern day pioneer, married to Patty who is the co-founder with him of perhaps one of the most remarkable patient groups around CLL Society Inc.. It is an absolute privilege to have both of them frequenting our little corner of the web, and even more so that he agreed to be interviewed (often Brian is the one doing the interviewing). The conversation was deep and rich and you can see it right here on this page. We spoke about matters of faith, altruism and how actually putting others interests above yours is just enlightened self interest. Listen here or watch and Video and read article: https://bloodcanceruncensored.com/brian-koffmans-spiritual-and-scientific-journey-through-an-aggressive-blood-cancer/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrian-warnock/message