Today I gave an awesome gift to myself: my own blood.
Dendritic cell therapy is quite new and has shown amazing promise in treating cancer. The video below is a pretty good explanation of the whole process if you are interested in learning more. This presentation is rather old (2007), but the charts and explanations are, in my opinion, pretty easy to comprehend for the lay person.
This morning, after receiving my standard laetrile, oxygen, vitamin, and selenium IV breakfast, a bag of my blood was taken using the temporary IV port that was surgically placed yesterday. Within a couple of hours, the lab returned my hemoglobin (red blood cells) after white blood cells had been extracted (a very simplistic explanation; watch the video if you want more details). This separated blood then became, in essence, my very own personal "cancer vaccine." :-) oh joy!
I am still pinching myself as a reminder that I am really here at this amazing place receiving these state-of-the-art, life-giving therapies. It makes me giggle to recall one of the last words my surgeon back in 2013 said to me before I "fired him." As I was leaving his office, he said to me, "And I don't wanna hear that you've gone off to one of those shacks in Tijuana for a miracle cure."
T'ain't no miracle. This is SCIENCE, baby!
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