Thanksgiving Day

From Alan: Happy Thanksgiving to everyone of our friends and family reading our blog. We celebrated Thanksgiving in Germany with pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie for desert from our great chef, Sven, but no turkey or fixings. We hope you had a wonderful day celebrating with your families.

Our Thanksgiving Day was marked by receiving the results of the cancer chemosensitivity tests. They showed a very aggressive cancer that has a penchant for invading other body organs and is resistant to many typical conventional treatments. It also showed, however, which treatments would be effective against Jeannette's particular cancer based on its genetic makeup. Armed with this knowledge, Dr. Jacob developed an array of medicines to combat the cancer. Some are standard chemotherapy and antibody treatments found in the US and are FDA approved, but others are experimental, innovative and cutting edge. Dr. Jacob leveled with us that this cancer is tough to beat, but she also gave us hope and hope is all we can ask for on this Thanksgiving day.

From Jeannette: I want to defend myself against Alan's accusation that I was just sleeping through the ruckus the other night when he flooded our room. In truth, I was in touch with my spiritual side. Let me explain. For many years, I had a wonderful cat named Sasha, who died from cancer four months ago. Every night I had a routine of patting my bed and calling for Sasha and she would jump up on the bed and curl up next to me and keep me warm and company when I was feeling lonely. Many mornings I would awake with Sasha' derriere in my face, although she often tired of my snoring and would sleep somewhere quieter. In my dream the other night, Sasha and my other dead cat, Tiger, were fighting to protect me and I felt very safe. Then an old bearded man came to me in my dream and told me that I should pay special attention when Dr. Jacob came to me and talked to me about stem cell treatment. I did not know who this man was or what he was talking about. Well imagine my surprise when the next morning Dr. Jacob came to me to talk about a stem cell vaccine! I told her about my dream and the message from the old man, but I think she thought I was not all there.

The best part of my day, however, was talking via Skype with my daughter, Christine, and my sons David and Stanley and Stan's friend Annie. It was so much fun to not only be able to talk to them about what was happening, but also to see them over the internet. It was heaven on earth, we should do this more often, Alan said this is a free service and people would pay to get it, everyone should try it.

Love to all of you and Happy Thanksgiving.