My stem cell harvest has been booked for my birthday of all days. It consists of having a large needle put into one arm and a smaller one in the other. Actually it seems the veins in my arms have had it due to previous chemo and now there will be a pipe put into my groin. How great.
Then for four hours they pump blood out of the big needle into a cetrifugal machine that seperates the stems cells from my blood, and then puts the blood back through the small needle into me. These stem cells are then frozen, I pressume, for use at a later date. What later date I am not sure. The stem cell transplant takes about 4 weeks in hospital. I really want to enjoy the summer and totally don’t want to do it. I saw my oncologist yesterday and he’s into me having it (not surprisingly) but I don’t want to be in here for a month while the sun is shining outside. I’ve thought about maybe delaying it until September but that is three months away. Not sure if they’d be up for that. In the mean time I have some alternative healing tricks up my sleeve. I’ll wait until I reavel them to the general public since some may consider them fairly wacky, due to ingorance or being afraid of the unknown or being generally not understanding and thinking ‘modern’ medicine is the greatest things since drug patenting.
Haha, don’t think you know it all. There’s much more to life than this materialistic plain that we live in/on. This dis-ease has thrown me into discovering the other sides of life much quicker. I’ve always questioned things I am told and this is no exception.
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