Last Day of Quarantine! (🤞)

It's Sunday, FINALLY!  I'm anxious for a negative COVID test tomorrow a.m. so that I can get started with testing and treatment.  It's been okay to have all this down time but I'm ready for a change in schedule.

I'm on the second season of Ted Lasso (Apple TV and thanks brother for recommending it), watched the first Grey's Anatomy for the season, have read substantial parts of three books, walked 9.5 miles yesterday, and 8.8 miles Friday, and already have a run and a walk in today for over 6 miles.  Of course I am writing in this blog and taking pictures.  Since I am in quarantine, I'm not talking with too many people.  Actually I speak with the person who delivers my meals but only about the food and what a German word means in English.


If you look at the pictures (I have added some since the last post),  https://photos.app.goo.gl/yanG9Ht3YD9iAjgN9 

you will see pictures of my apartment and the clinic.  According to my schedule for tomorrow, I will be getting a massage at the end of the day after having a consult with the doctor, blood tests, and learning how to use the PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy) device so that I can self-administer this part of the treatment throughout my three week stay.  

I remember 20+ years ago when I moved from Bluffton to Columbus and started massage therapy school.  Up to that point, I had never had a massage nor had heard of acupuncture.  Since then I have also experienced Reiki and other healing modalities so PEMF might sound a bit "out there" but I am all about something that is noninvasive and that just might benefit me if keep an open mind.  What is the saying???  You don't know until you try???

I'm anxious to meet the other 11 or so patients tomorrow and the doctors and nurses too.  Of course, I had hoped for individualized treatment and this appears to be exactly what I am going to receive.  If you have the time and interest, at least listen to part of the this interview by Chris Wark, a stage 3c colon cancer survivor, as he speaks with Dr. Henning Saupe, the medical director of Arcadia Clinic.  

https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/henning-saupe-md-the-naturopathic-integrative-approach-to-oncology/  

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