We left the condo about 8:30 Saturday morning and drove to Sonoma Valley. It was 21 degrees at the top of Donner Pass. When we got to Sonoma, it was 68 degrees...a beautiful day. We stopped for lunch at a little French Bistro and ate a salad and turkey sandwich; both were very good.
We spent the night at Dry Creek Inn in Healdsburg. Sunday we spent the day going through wineries and vineyards making our way back to Napa Valley. It is beautiful even though the vines are dormant this time of year. Mustard grows beneath the vines and is in full bloom with yellow blooms. It is very pretty to look out at the vineyards covering the rolling hills in full bloom with yellow flowers. When I get a connection for the camera, I will post some photos we took.
Overall, we had a great weekend and it was a nice break for us.
We had a treatment on Monday and will have one each day this week and will make our trip back home on Friday afternoon. We found out on Friday that the blood work that was done at the clinic on Tuesday when we first got here, two weeks after we had blood work in Tulsa, showed that his CEA (marker in the blood) had gone from 57 when we had it done in Tulsa to 72 in just two weeks time.
The clinic will do blood work again this Wednesday and we will be able to see if the CEA is coming down or at least holding stable from the treatments. I truly believe this treatment will improve Harold’s condition. He is feeling good and looking very good also (although he has never looked like he has a severe case of cancer).
Our journey continues...if you are interested, check out this site related to using hyperthermia to treat cancer - I will continue to post articles that I find in my quest for curing Harold's cancer. Speaking of, I was given an honorary Doctoral Degree from one of Harold's doctors last week; I think they continue to be impressed with my extensive knowledge of the disease (I feel very lucky that there are so many tools that help guide my path to these discoveries - knowledge truly is power!)
Love to all - as always, feel free to post comments by clicking the comments link directly below this blog entry - we truly enjoy hearing from you!
Showing posts with label weekend trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekend trip. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Two Weeks Down...One to Go
We met with Dr. Forsythe yesterday and he thinks the treatments are going very well. He listened to Harold's lungs and intestines and said they both sounded very good when listening with his stethoscope. He thinks Papa will respond well to the treatment.
We met with Dr. Donaldson on Wednesday evening and fine tuned the supplement regimen. During our conversation with her, she gave us some information inadvertently that will be helpful for anyone you may know that either has leg cramps at night or restless leg syndrome. She said to start taking a 400 unit Vitamin E in the evening for a week and after a week to take one in the morning and one in the evening. If this is done consistently, it will alleviate leg cramps and restless leg syndrome symptoms. Dr. Donaldson said it really makes her angry to see the commercials touting medication for these symptoms when Vitamin E will take care of them. This is pretty big news since we know several people that this should benefit.
We are meeting with Dr. Husser this morning and hopefully will have some of the blood test results that have been done locally (hair strand tests, etc.). The results from the German lab will probably not be back until just before we leave Reno or possibly not until we get back home.
Today papa finishes his second week of IV Salicinim treatments and is feeling good. Yesterday afternoon we drove up to Virginia City, Gold City, Silver City and Carson City. Virginia City is mostly a tourist city with little shops all along the main street. It is beautiful from the top of the mountains getting there.
We plan to take a trip this weekend to Napa and Sonoma Valley. The weather is supposed to be good this weekend so we can go over Donner pass to get to California. It is about a 3 to 4 hour drive to the valley...looking forward to the trip.
We met with Dr. Donaldson on Wednesday evening and fine tuned the supplement regimen. During our conversation with her, she gave us some information inadvertently that will be helpful for anyone you may know that either has leg cramps at night or restless leg syndrome. She said to start taking a 400 unit Vitamin E in the evening for a week and after a week to take one in the morning and one in the evening. If this is done consistently, it will alleviate leg cramps and restless leg syndrome symptoms. Dr. Donaldson said it really makes her angry to see the commercials touting medication for these symptoms when Vitamin E will take care of them. This is pretty big news since we know several people that this should benefit.
We are meeting with Dr. Husser this morning and hopefully will have some of the blood test results that have been done locally (hair strand tests, etc.). The results from the German lab will probably not be back until just before we leave Reno or possibly not until we get back home.
Today papa finishes his second week of IV Salicinim treatments and is feeling good. Yesterday afternoon we drove up to Virginia City, Gold City, Silver City and Carson City. Virginia City is mostly a tourist city with little shops all along the main street. It is beautiful from the top of the mountains getting there.
We plan to take a trip this weekend to Napa and Sonoma Valley. The weather is supposed to be good this weekend so we can go over Donner pass to get to California. It is about a 3 to 4 hour drive to the valley...looking forward to the trip.
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