Here are some you will have to read about/see which is closer/better for you. The alternative programs that are followed for degenerative diseases where everything goes wrong, like cancer, get much better results, healthwise, than what you are doing now.
If you are in excruciating pain after a year of therapy plus the threat of a paralysis coming back is more than enough to let a reasonable person know things are not getting better, but worse. They are giving you steroids just so you can get around/or not vomit, that is not a sign that a healthier you is just around the corner. Or in the next bottle of steroids (they inject into you). They are not giving you a steroid because you are healthy.

Read the posts in this Cancer Support Forum as well as about these websites-if listed:
(An alternative method of looking at degenerative disease and restoring health will require you & your family to learn more about it in order to follow it for success.)

Neil L. Block, MD
Orangeburg, NY
(845) 359-3300
Integrative approach..related reading "Get Healthy Now" by Gary Null...

Nicholas J. Gonzalez, MD
New York, NY
Website: http://www.dr-gonzalez.com
intensive nutritional program..has an FDA clinical trial in pancreas cancer, treats a wide variety of disorders..fee for initial sessions is $2,800..also covers time for designing protocol...does not include blood tests...no charge for patients' phone calls...supplements for the doctor's patients only...about $650/month or $12,000 per year to follow this treatment...

Preventative Medicine and Wellness Clinic
Fredonia, NY
(800) 379-4221
..nutritional therapy....related reading "Dr. Atkins Health Revolution: How Complementary Medicine Can Extend Your Life" by R.C.Atkins..

Revici Life Science Center
New York, NY
Website: http://www.revici.com
...use of nontoxic substances that alter the wall of the cancer cell and prevent the entry of those materials needed for cell life...Best Responders: brain tumors, cancer of the breast, liver, pancreas, prostate, leukemia..first consultation with treatment is $350, repeat visits are $150, autovaccination is $50, medication is free of charge..related reading.."Emanuel Revici, M.D.: A Review of His Scientific Work" by D.L. McKee..

Schachter Center for Complementary Medicine
Suffern, NY
Website: http://www.schachtercenter.com
...philosophy combines the best of conventional medicine with alternative methods to provide a holistic approach..all types illnesses, degnerative disorders, cancer....Best responders, best results obtained with patients who are in the early stages of cancer and who have not receivd large amounts of conventional treatment..advanced stages..can benefit..team approach..related reading, "Beating Cancer With Nutrition" by Patrick Quillin, "The Burzynski Breakthrough" by T.D. Elias, "Cancer and Common Sense: Combining Science and Nature to Control Cancer" by D. Brodie..

Western and Oriental Medicine
New Hyde Park, NY
(516)775-5285 Chung Y. Pei
Dr. Pei integrates Western(17yrs.) and Oriental(25yrs) medicine in the magagement of degenerative diseases, cancer, other...trained in Chinese herbology, acupuncture, Western medicine, osteopathic manipulation...

Ronald D. Whitmont, MD
Website: http://www.homeopathicmd.com
...lifestyle interventions..special focus on psychosomatic and emotional counseling..initial visit for adult $360..follow up is $75..for child $180...

The above information is a few years old and more of the details are in the book, "Third Opinion" by John M. Fink, publisher, SquareOne and can be found at a large bookstore.

There are both M.D.'s and Ph.D.'s writing for either side: the treatments of Alternative Medicine have theirs, and conventional medicine has theirs. The simple, scientific truths of nontoxic treatments are too upsetting to the apple carts of conventional cancer therapy. The proofs are all over the place. But people don't want to see it.

Cancer patients who have to have bone marrow transplants do not have good chances for survival but very low chances and these chances get lower with each subsequent drug used in therapy.

Nontoxic treatments assist (the body) in removing (detoxifying) the chemotherapy (& other toxins) remaining in the body. Proper nutrition strengthens the body & immune system which attacks the cancer. Common sense should tell anyone that poison does not strengthen the body. Radiation can be offered to you as a rescue mechanism, but it is a poison. You will be changing how you treat your body by changing what you eat, an extremely important factor in any wholistic approach.

For a comparison of different non toxic, wholistic approaches and interesting insight, go to: http://www.cancertutor.com
I don't know how many are in NY but read enough to be able to determine which one you and your family can stick with in advance, rather than switching from one to the other (common pitfall). The sooner the better.

Read Dr. Kelley's facts on cancer at this, CureZone, website.

Take a look at "Questioning Chemotherapy" by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. for free pages on line at Amazon.com

What kind of chemotherapy(s) were you receiving along with the steroid?