Tuesday, September 9, 2008

New Chemo?

Hi Everyone:

Well, our doctor called and said he spoke to Dr. Agha at Hillman Cancer Center, the Director of Stem Cell Transplant. Dr. Agha, believes that Jim should immediately be put on MINT chemo and then go to Cleveland Clinic for Stem Cell. Hard to find any info on MINT chemo, as I believe it was a small trial. The Doc said it showed some promise. What we found is that out of 35 members of the trial, 9 got better, but we don't know for how long. It's real hard to understand the info about these numbers. For instance, Jim's 80 percent chance of it going away with CHOP was wrong, as was the 40 percent with ESHAP. So, this 25 percent chance??? Then it mentions something about adding 2 to 10 months of life to the others, and blah blah blah??? So, everyone, take the poll. What do you think?

In the meantime, Jim is burning his skin off with MMS (Sodium chlorite) added to DMSO. He's getting ammonia burps with the Budwig Diet, and he's drinking the MMS with pineapple juice, as alternatives. Yikes. So far, so good. He hasn't felt this good in a long time. This is the longest he's been off chemo in 7 months, and his blood is a bit stronger and that just feels good. And yet, the cancer could be growing as I type. Or God could have already healed him. We are so weary.

Jim and Gloria
I typed, Jim pointed out all the typos and made me write things like (sodium chlorite) and the correct percentages...after all, he is an engineer, you know.

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