The Kanzius Machine - A cancer cure?

This is pretty amazing. This research is going on right NOW at MD Anderson. If they are able to do what they are showing, this could cure almost any kind of cancer! The crazy thing is that the machine was invented by a guy who isn't even a doctor!

Episode 1: First Visit to MD Anderson

I had my first Chemo on Friday, Oct. 2nd. I had to be there at 11:30am, and they took me right into a room with a bed and TV. I get into bed and they give me some shots beforehand. Then going on 12:30 they put the IV in and start the first chemo medicine which is TRASTUZUMAB (Herceptin) they all have 2 names, this is the one I tested positive for the Her2 cancer cells, unfortunately this is a very expensive drug I take this every 3 weeks with Chemo and continue for a full year, this runs $4,439.00 a treatment, wow, it is suppose to be 100% effective in killing this cancer cell. I did fine with this drug.

The second chemo medicine was CARBOPLATIN (Paraplatin) one of the side effects was tingling, numbness and pain. I had a little tingling but the time I pushed the nurses button and she came it started to go away, so I had no problem with this one, they take 1 1/2 hrs. each.

The third chemo medicine is DOCETAXEL (Taxotere) this one after she gave me with in a very short time I felt my face just flushing and getting hot I told her right away and then I felt funny in my chest, but she had immediately stopped it, she said that is why I stayed in here longer up to 15 minutes she would have, because she said the majority of people have a reaction the first time. It was kind of scary she gave me a steroid and strong benedryl and redid it 30 minutes later and I had no problem then.

I had to go to the ladies room and you have to unplug this big circular stand with all your medicines and take a plug out from stand. So I am starting out in the hall and a nurse sees me and says "Oh are you looking for the bathrooms?" So I told her, "No, I am going home!" she laughed. Oh how I really would like to of gone home and would wake up from this dream still. But I think it will really become real when I have no hair, ha. Oh, my lunch was delicious. I had a Chicken salad sub on wheat bread and fresh fruit, it was impressive.

I got a shot 24 hours later PEGFILGRASTIM (Neulasta) to help in preventing or reducing the risk of infection while I am being treated with these cancer-fighting medicines. It stimulates the bone marrow to produce white blood cells (the cells responsible for fighting infection), boosting the body's immune system. So I will do this each time after Chemo.

I can not get sick at all, I can never have a temperature over 101 or I have to go to the emergency room or I can die. They were VERY specific about that. So I will miss a lot of functions this next 4 1/2 months as flu season and colds are all coming up, and I always get sore throats and colds so this is going to be very difficult and scary time for me, hopefully it will go by fast!

I do not have the energy I had before that is for sure, I can do things and then have to go rest, I tend to overdue still but I will learn fast. Nausea not to bad I have to eat when I am hungry. Your bones get a little sore, but I have medicine. I pray it doesn't get worse I want to start walking again, they say that is good. Before I know it I will be back there. Keep me in your prayers, oh how I FEEL them. THE FIGHT IS ON! And Debbie will WIN!!! Love you all!

Week 1 and 2: Diagnostic Tests

WED. 9-23-09 

My first visit started with checking in and filling out paperwork. Then I did some blood work and met with one of the surgeons, who was very young-looking and as sweet as could be. Then I met my Doctor, his name is Massimo Cristofanilli, he is so nice,happy and positive, the kind of Doctor any person would love to have, I am so happy I have someone like him.

THUR. 9-24-09 

Went to MD Anderson at 9:00am and had a Chest, PA & LAT X-ray. At 11:00AM I prepared for Cardiac injection, I had to drink 2 bottles of Contrast (Berry flavor) it was suppose to be the best. I had to drink one in the first 45 minutes, and then the other one the next 45 minutes. I was then taken to a small waiting room in the back with about 9 other women,they were all sitting there quietly. I went and sat down but after a while, I noticed that it was just too quiet for me. So I started a conversation with the girl next to me, then the lady on the other side of me started talking as well and before you knew it, I had everyone talking! The lady next to me has been in remission for 4 years, she goes once a year now. This young beautiful girl who has 2 children was waiting to have surgery (she was having a mastectomy). Another young girl I met who had 1 child, was on her second time around with Breast cancer but with a totally different type of cancer. She was so brave I was really impressed with her. Then there was the school teacher and the lady who sat in the corner reading her book. Me and the lady with the book got called out together, she never talked. I started to talk to her as we walked and she told me "I wasn't saying anything in there while you were talking, because mine is not a happy story." Her cancer has spread all over, I was so sad for her, I told her I have read so many stories of these women on these cancer sites that have been in 4th stage cancer who have lived. Then we had to go to our separate rooms for tests.

Do not ever give up, you have to fight all the way, even if you are not given much hope you still fight, because miracles can and do happen. We have to have faith, Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us and we have to do our part and be strong and most of all be positive.

If any one told me I would be like this, open and happy right now, I would have told them they were crazy. I have told people at the stores I shop at that I have Breast cancer it so easy for me to talk about this, it is actually great THERAPY. I am happy I can not explain it but I have had no fear, and I am scared to death of Hospitals. I know all the prayers and fasting from my family and friends have given me such strength that keeps pushing me on. Never keep something like this bottled up inside of you, because it will bring you down, and you need to be up beat and you need to talk to people, believe me it works. You feel so good, it is a trial you will get through with the support of family and friends! Why not have as many people praying for you as you can?

I had one more test that day, it was a CT Scan of Chest and Abdomen, this was a breeze.

FRI. 9-25-09 

I did an MRI, oh this was a crazy machine. They put ear plugs in my ears and I had to lay on my stomach, hands above my head and I laid my head on a triangular pad covered with a sheet,you could see the floor and window where technician was. Then I went into the BEAST and when they take pictures you cannot move at all. I would lay there 1 1/2 min. then 2 1/2 min. Then they would go to 6 1/2 to 8 1/2 minutes that felt like 25 minutes. It would get hot my head was killing me on the pad, face sweating, my left finger would go numb where the IV was. I had to sing songs in my head, go off to a Tropical Island in my mind, then the loud train horn sound would start and the clonking noise would bring me back into the machine. I prayed hard to make it through, I had to squeeze the ball in my hand once for them to stop once a picture was over, I had to pick up my head. It was a very hard test but not totally unbearable you have to stay in control in your mind.

Later the old mammograms, no pictures for this one. ha.

Headed for home on Friday, not expected back till Wednesday, but got a phone call and they wanted me back on Monday for Ultra Sound and biopsy so that is what I did today. It has been quite a week. There are the most wonderful people at MD Anderson all of them, they have been so nice and helpful so funny totally AWESOME! I love it here and I am getting the best treatment for me possible.

Life is great!

First Visit to MD Anderson

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Here are some photos from my first visit to MD Anderson!