Late August

August 22:
Lorraine's birthday was on 17th and of course we went out to eat with the family and the local Greek restaurant. Since then, the days seem to be getting long... I am still of course taking the antineoplaston medication as I expect to do for the foreseeable future. There are other issues bothering me right now that seem to have no resolution in sight.

I get daily anxiety attacks which last at least an hour each time. This is such a new thing for me, I'm not even sure if I'm describing it properly. What happens is my back muscles all seem to bunch up. I then start to rock back and forth, side to side in what seems to be an effort to stretch my back muscles. My back never seems to get any relief from this and Lorraine will put a heat pack between my back and the chair which does help for a good hour or more. Walking seems to help, but using a quad cane I walk so slowly that I never can really work my muscles as they are intended. There are times like last night when this hurts while I'm trying to sleep as well. Of course my physician gave me pills for the anxiety but all they do is put me to sleep. I don't know how to resolve this issue yet. If anybody has any suggestions please let me know!
I am getting blood tests every other day now, and the clinic in Texas calls us daily to make sure I am doing okay. Other than the occasional headache, I am usually fine.

Sometimes these headaches are very painful, and when they are bad, they will have Lorraine administer medicine to me for it it sure is nice to have a doctor on call 24 hours a day no matter what. Typically there is not a problem... Tylenol usually works fine when I have a headache. The clinic calls everyday, as I said, to monitor the doses of medicine I receive. Lorraine works with them very closely and nothing is done without their approval.

Interestingly, in a grocery store last week we ran into a couple of folks that we met in the clinic last month in Texas! It was so surprising that they recognized us from the Burzynski clinic. You know how it is when you recognize somebody, but you know that you don't recognize them from the current location? It was kind of weird but nice to see people we met at the clinic still doing well. I am still basically free of new symptoms, and for that Lorraine and I are extremely grateful. I need to sign off right now as it is time for Lorraine to start administering my doses for the day. I will do my best to update this blog tomorrow but I may need to get a different microphone so that when the air conditioner comes on it does not type wrong words. Speech recognition is a great thing when works properly. But if you have to correct every other sentence, it's not worth the time! The program I use is called Dragon naturally speaking. It is touted to be the best but you cannot prove it by me. More later