Today we are launching ‘Cancer Warriors
Foundation’ (pol. „Fundacja Wojownicy Raka”) that will hopefully help to collect
the funds for Andrew’s treatment. Here you will be able to learn how Andrew is
feeling, what he is doing, what obstacles he is facing each day, what
challenges he is going through, but also what makes him smile and makes his heart
happy.
If you have any questions or comments
you may direct them to wojownicyraka@gmail.com.
We ask for your help and for your
donations through this Fundation. For all your kindness we would like to thank
from the bottom of our hearts.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10TH, 2013
Andrew
in Clinic in Germany.
Since
last Tuesday (Jan. 8th) Andrew has been in Dr. Herzog’s clinic in Germany (http://www.fachklinikdrherzog.de). Starting with first day Andrew was
provided with full body hyperthermia.
Tomorrow
next day of therapy. We pray and cross our fingers!
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013
Day
third.
Today
is the third day since Andrew has been admitted into the clinic in Germany. He
had local hyperthermia, magnetic-field therapy, and he was given number of IVs.
The role of these IVs is to rapidly strenghten his body and to build up his
immune system so he can fight against the cancer.
Andrew
is asleep at this time. Tomorrow morning he will get another local
hyperthermia. Every other day, the
hyperthermia is targeting Andrew’s abdomen area, where he has metastases to the
lymph nodes alternately, with hyperthermia targeting his chest (both lungs).
One day abdomen, the other lungs, IVs, magnetic-field therapy, and all over
again.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013
Day Four
Good news today!
We got green light to transfer 1%
of tax return for Andrew’s treatment through Arc’s Fundation from Bydgoszcz
(pol. Fundacja Arka). You can find more info about this on the tab:’ Przekaz
1%’ (Donate 1%)
We ask you to spread this
information around as much as you can and we thank you in advance.
Today Andrew had IVs and
hyperthermia therapy. Lately, but especially just few days prior to chemo he
suffers from very uncomfortable back pain, however, to minimize the treatment costs Andrew decided
to reject the massages offered by the clinic. The massage would relieve the pain, but it wouldn’t have any
significant effect on cancer treatment.
Bye!
SATURDAY, JAN. 12, 2013
Day Five
Andrew started his
Saturday morning with the local hyperthermia and was given detoxification
fluids through an IVdrip. He got lots of rest today. Tomorrow he will have a
chance to get even more rest as Sunday is a day off in the clinic.
On Monday at 4 PM Andrew
is meeting with Dr. Herzog who will discuss the plan for the future therapy and
will go over the blood work results. We are looking forward to Andrew’s meeting
with the doctor tomorrow.
Goodnight
everyone!
SANDAY, JAN. 13, 2013
Day Six
Today is day off in the
clinic, a little break from the hyperthermia and all the IVs. Just a walk and
few deep breaths in fresh, winter air.
Andrew will need good
night sleep today as tomorrow he will face important meeting with Dr. Herzog
about the plans for the future therapy.
We keep our fingers crossed for Andrew!!! Tomorrow continuation of the
fight with cancer!
MONDAY, JAN. 14, 2013
Day Seven
Today is Monday. At 7 AM Andrew
was already done with today’s hyperthermia and detoxifiation IV’s. At 9:30 AM
Andrew had magnetic-field therapy. At 11:30 AM he had ozone therapy.
In regards to today’s
meeting with the doctor, Andrew learned that the blood work showed good
results. The doctor prescribed some medications in form of IVs that Andrew will
continue taking after his return to home in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
At this time Andrew is
already resting before another day.
Exactly in a week he is
coming back to us :)
TUESDAY, JAN.15, 2013-01-31
Day Eight
This morning just as usual
Andrew had a local hyperthermia, was provided IVs, and had magnetic-field
therapy. Yesterday I mentioned the ozone therapy. Today I will try to explain
what it is and the purpose of it. In ozone therapy, Dr. Herzog takes out 150
milliliters of Andrew’s blood, mixes the blood with the ozone gas, shakes the
blood, and returns it to the body. The cancer cells don’t like oxygen and ozone
and they can’t grow in this environment. Besides killing cancer cells, the
ozone therapy helps in building up the immune system of the body. The body is
more energized and has more strenght.
On January 24th, during
Andrew’s fifth cycle of chemo he will have a CT scan performed. At that time we
will be able to find out if the methods used by Dr. Herzog are helping with the
fight against the cancer cells. The results of the CT scan will be send over to
Dr. Herzog’s clinic for evaluation.
Dear friends, in a week we
are going to pick up Andrew from the airport in Gdansk and he will be finally
with us :)
Goodnight!
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 2013
Day Nine – Wednesday
Dear friends, we would
like to inform you that we received the first donations from you for Andrew’s
treatment. Thank you all so much! We trully appraciate your warm and giving
hearts and there are no words to express our gratitude. We collected almost
1000 PL ZL which from our calculations will cover one day of therapy in Dr.
Herzog’s clinic. Once again we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
When it comes to Andrew,
he is behind another day of hyperthermia, IV injections, magnetic-field
therapy, and ozone therapy.
Just 5 more days and he
will be back :)
THURSDAY, JAN. 17, 2013
Day Ten
Today our Andrew had his
usual set of therapies together with IVs. At night he went to swim at the
clinic’s swimming pool. Swimming helps him with the back pain and allows him to
relax.
When I spoke with him at
night, he just finished walking up the stairs at the hotel he is staying at.
The climbing up the stairs to the first floor exhausted him so much that he allowed
me to talk for a while he was taking a rest.
The good news is that now
he takes only 1.5 pill for pain at night and not every 3 hours as it has been
in the past.
Time to sleep. Goodnight
everyone!