Showing posts with label NKcells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NKcells. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Whew, It's HOT in Here!!

Big day at the Klinik today. I didn't respond to the initial dose of the fever therapy, so I received a second dose around 10:30. That *really* set me off -- within 40 minutes I was shivering vigorously, and ended up having a fever of 106.2° -- yow! I think that's probably the highest fever I've had in my life. At that temperature, I am really not present mentally: Liz says I was talking, but I don't remember anything for about an hour and a half. Herr Doktor was really happy -- as I was leaving for the day he pulled off his glasses and emphatically said, "*Very* effective results!" Fry those cancer cells, baby!

I had local hyperthermia today too, focused on the prostate -- I have my legs up in the gynecological position for an hour, which is extremely charming. So far I've been able to persuade Liz *not* to do a drawing of me in that position.

The big surprise of the day was saved for last: my Natural Killer cells had arrived back from the lab. So I got a wad of them injected directly into my prostate. Kids, this is *definitely* something you don't want to try at home! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.