I hope that I am accepted in this immunotherapy test. What it entails is that they inject you with a synthetic cancer cell. Your natural immune system is trained to attack the cancer cells in your body. This is a very simple explanation of what happens. The idea, principle is that of a vaccine. One day it will not be necessary to inject the body with poison called chemo that indiscriminately kills everything. It is the future of cancer treatment. To bad I didn’t get cancer 15-20 years from now when they have a cancer vaccine and the test are complete.
The more I read about immunotherapy the more I can see the cure for cancer or at least longer life expectancy, depending on the type of cancer. There is a lot of promising signs in this development.
Today I received a call or I should say my wife did from Hospice. They need to know if I want to go into a local living care facility, stay at home or the VA’s. What they are asking is where do you want to die at. If I choose at home they will come here and make arrangements for a hospital bed and other things to include nurse arrangements. It is all hospitals policy that when someone has an incurable cancer they are referred to Hospices.
It is something that needs to be discussed and planed. I have been putting it off for months and refused to discuss it. My wife informed me of the call and that she made an appointment for next week to discuss it with them. I have been putting everything I have into beating this and I have no time to discuss defeat.
If this ,the cancer gains the upper hand then a plan has to be in place to follow. It would not be the right thing to do if I just left it to others. They will have a hard enough time. Even now sitting here my attitude is the same. I am going to fight and win.
Ok 40 years from now when I am in my late late 80’s I might need the service and I will plan for that. That’s the best I can do. In 6 months or so I will be on a sailboat fishing in the Gulf of Mexico .
In a couple of days it will be the year 2019. It will take some of us a month or at least weeks before we stop writing 2018 for the year. I am looking forward to the new year. I have some high hopes but will also keep my feet on the ground in reality.
The one thing that we can count on is that there will be change. Just ask the dinosaur.
Wolfhart