Day Twentythree

Tijuana: Fri 15 July 2011

Funny thing happened today. Feli came in to show me how to perform a Liver injection, which is basically into the bum. She firstly showed me how to load the syringe with the medicine, and then she was going to show me where to inject into the bum, but Maria was busy. So she called one of the cleaning ladies over, pulled down her trousers and gave her a shot straight into the bum!

"What are you doing?", I cried.

"It's OK with some extra vitamins", She replied with a smile.

Freaky.

Really nice day today. Maria had an IM Coleys with a fairly medium reaction. We actually all ate lunch up on the sun deck, which was great.

Well Dr Mora, should be back on Monday and hopefully we will be getting the Autologous vaccine, which has been specially developed from Maria's own blood. These I think are taken once a week, and don't give any kind of major reaction, I think.

The picture above is of the Coronado islands, which we can see from our room. They have some pretty interesting history, especially during the prohibition. You can read about them here.

Day Twentytwo

Tijuana: Thur 14 July 2011

Today is exactly a week until we leave. Just thought I'd start today's entry with a picture of my sweetheart.

No Coleys for Maria today as her arms just can't take it so she got a day off, and it was quite remarkable the difference. It is amazing how quickly (apart from obviously the pain in the arm), you recoup from the Coleys. Extremely different to chemotherapy! Today is my last day of Enemas, I have now been doing them for about two weeks, although I will take the odd one now and again.

Had a chat with the hospital director today about some of the small things we were a little unhappy about, such as some nurses and doctors wearing perfume (which is no no on any kind of immunotherapy ward); and in good old Central American style he got on the phone straight away, to get his secretary to start a new memo about the subject. Love that old school styley!

Went for a quick walk around the block, as though she feels better Maria is still a little weak. Just realized I haven't put up a picture of dinner, so I'll start with that tomorrow.

Toodle pip!

Day Twentyone

Tijuana: Wed 13 July 2011

Happy Birthday Maria! My little sweetie is a year wiser today. She even got a cake, Gerson of course!

Birthday or not though she still had to have Coleys, however, we tried sub cutaneous which was a slightly milder reaction.

Clare and her Mum bought Maria some flowers as well as a couple of presents.

It was otherwise a fairly quiet day.

Day Twenty

Tijuana: Tues 12 July 2011

Twenty days already! Time flies, but I think we are getting ready to move on soon, and looking forward to that 10 day break in Cabo! Mmmmm!

Another intra muscular Coleys for Maria today in the same arm, poor Maria. It had really ballooned up, she is a real tough nut.

Forgot to mention another new patient started yesterday, Robin, who'll be here for a couple of weeks. Apparently he has a sister who was diagnosed with terminal cancer back when she was 12. Then after some research by his mother, who came across Gerson, and subsequently the Gerson diet, she's doing very well now at the ripe age of 62!

Went out for a wander today to find a little something for Maria's birthday tomorrow. No easy task. Once again, I am so shocked by the amount of street junk food available here. There really isn't much healthy choice, especially in our immediate vicinity anyway.

We're really missing Dr Mora, and looking forward to his return on Monday.

More Sopranos! Lots of Sopranos!

Day Nineteen

Tijuana: Mon 11 July 2011

Well even though they had scheduled to leave on Tuesday, it seems like Audrey and her entourage are leaving today. She has quite a hectic journey home, so hope it all goes well Audrey and get well soon!

This is the last full week here at CHIPSA, then we will be leaving next Thursday, on the 21st. Maria had intra muscular Coleys today, which again made for a very painful left arm.

Just on a lighter note. Thought this picture of Niko Alm and the adjoining article were pretty funny. he basicall managed to get his ID picture to contain him with a Pasta drainer on his head. This is because his religion is Pastafarian. You can read the whole article here.

Day Eighteen

Tijuana: Sun 10 July 2011

Lunch! Nice easy Sunday. We even went down and saw Audrey today. She looked amazing for an 82 year old who had just had such major surgery. She is leaving tomorrow so, was great to see her before she left. Maria had a multivitamin IV today otherwise no other treatment.

We watched a film in the afternoon, Earthlings. It is an extremely graphic and open account of how we treat or mistreat animals, and also the newer problems that have arisen within our food as a result of this. A very apt quote in the film, 'you reap what you sow'. Here is the film. I will warn you that this film could possibly change the way you eat and think about animals.

Day Seventeen

Tijuana: Sat 9 July 2011

So I decided that I would put up a picture of each meal here so you can see what we eat. This is obviously breakfast, which is something like Porridge with banana, prunes and apricots. Toast with homemade jam, bit of fruit, orange juice and camomile tea. Lovely!

We were going to go into Tijuana town today, but unfortunately Maria can barely move her arm, it is so painful after a week of shots. Never mind, there'll be other times. We met a new patient Clare and her Mum today, from Canada. They are really nice and will be here for a couple of weeks. She was here in February for a month.

Not too much treatment for Maria today, a vitamin C IV and we have started to make a log of how certain conditions feel a couple of times a day, so we record things like amount of coughing, voice weakness, etc both at 1200 and at 1800.

Watching both, Sopranos and Cold feet these days, nice bit of contrast.

Day Sixteen

Tijuana: Fri 8 July 2011

Hello Pips! Wow. Amazing what can happen with public outcry. New of The World shall print for the last time on Sunday. Unfortunately, some equally useless piece of toilet paper will probably take it's place, but still...

Back in Mexico, and Maria had another intra muscular shot of Coleys, which again took her up to 40 degrees. We had a long chat with Gar today, as Maria has been worried about a pain she has been getting in her right trapezoid muscle. Gar and later via e-mail Dr Mora, both believed that the pain is referred pain, ie. coming from somewhere else, ad tis is more than likely due to the Coleys. So, basically, good news. Gar also took a long good look at Maria's PET scans that we had taken with us from Sweden, and took some time to explain to us what they show and how they are read. I think it was a little freaky for Maria to see the inside of herself like that, but she was really interested in his explanations.

The diet is going well, I am still on the same diet as Maria, and still managing two enemas a day, however, I will probably stop them next week and maybe just cut back to one a week, I think I can safely say, that I am pretty well detoxified these days.

Loving this film of Pella, she rocks.