Bring on the fever!!!

Well, I am still a bit under the weather. In addition to having a rather revolting cough, for the past couple of afternoons I have been getting bit of a fever (almost 38° Celsius). No worries, though: this is a “change of season” complaint that is making the rounds of many Florentine households, according to my family doctor. Ah, that probably means that Mr. Expectorate is off the hook, since I was most likely infected somewhere here…in a store, perhaps…

Anyway, it will pass in a few days, and my cats are taking good care of me (in this photo, as you can see, Priscilla is giving me a CAT scan, thanks Hanna for the suggestion hehe, while Puzzola waits patiently in the background…)…

In the meantime, my feline nurses and I are getting plenty of rest and watching some of the fabulous BBC costume dramas that I ordered from the UK last Xmas. Right now we are watching “Little Dorrit,” though I must say that my attention span is much higher than theirs (they take what I can only call “cat naps” during most of the episodes 😉 ). Ahhh, how I love those Dickens characters…

Ahhh, but now let’s get to the point of this post. This morning I came across an article of immense interest to me…particularly right now: http://tinyurl.com/24wxh6y This is not the first time I have read about fevers driving some cancer patients into spontaneous remissions, but there is more to the article than just that…so I thought I would jot down a quick post and urge you all to read it.

There is still no scientific explanation for fever-caused spontaneous regressions, but there are a couple of theories floating around, as follows (more details can be found in the article…): 1. the high fever jumpstarts the immune system, which, in its heightened state, is thus able to detect and eradicate the cancer cells; 2. the fever itself attacks and destroys the cancer.

Now, this fever-cancer eradication business hasn’t worked for me. In the spring-summer of 2006, I came down with a terrible case of pleurisy that almost killed me. I did recover…obviously!…but the high fevers unfortunately did NOT exterminate my myeloma cells. (If they had, my blog would now have a completely different title! 😉 )

Details: at the beginning of July (2006) I was still not completely over my pleurisy, but, since I hadn’t had any tests since March, I decided to go to the hospital lab for my routine tests. The results were not good at all. But then, just two months later (in September, that is), I had my tests repeated. Those were the BEST results I had had in years…and thus far I have not done better…

So this article provides some food for thought…

But right now, Pinga really wants to watch Episode Two of “Little Dorrit,” so I must go… 🙂

2 Comments

  1. Where is Mr. Exporate when we need him! This is amazing! I almost look forward to getting sick now…jsut to see what happens! Thanks Margaret!

  2. Margaret, you know I respect your thorough research but this time, you are clearly wrong.

    I have blown up the photo by clicking on the link, and carefully examined the top right quadrant.

    Puzzola is NOT waiting patiently. On the contrary, it appears to me that Puzzola is preparing to jump into action to ensure you get a better quality, SECOND opinion. Batteries are being charged back there!

    Just saying …

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