Laetril Trials

OK, I got my Laetril in the mail yesterday.  I'm not going to say where I got it, because supposedly you're not supposed to sell it in the US.  I guess the big Pharma companies know it's a cure for cancer.  How do you patent something that came from a plant?

I took my first one last night.  I had no ill side effects.  It's a 100mg tablet and I can't read everything on the label because I only know a little Spanish.  I looked up some of the words I didn't know, and it's mostly your standard warnings.  Keep out of reach of small children, keep in a cool dry place, use only as directed (which is one tablet a day) and that it's a supplement, not a drug.  I think it also says the person taking it is responsible for any consequences if they live in the US.

I did get a bit sleepy, but it could have been from working all day.  I'm getting ready to go on vacation and there are a lot of preps that need to take place, laundry, packing, making sure I have everything for snacks (special diet for me and both kids), etc.  I seem about the same on energy level today, but, hey, it was only one dose.

I'm continuing the humus (chick peas are high in B17) and lentils when I can.  I also eat the seeds of the apple I eat.  I'm slowing allowing a couple of things a day.  Originally, if I had an apple, with the seeds, I didn't eat any apricot kernels.  I'm almost through my first bag of apricot kernels.  I eat about 10-12 in a sitting.  I don't recommend this to anyone else, this is just what I am doing.  With stage 4 breast cancer (and there being no stage 5), I feel I have nothing to loose and everything to gain.  I've been battling this beast for a year and a half solid, with my first battle being about 7 months long 7 years ago.  That's a long time.

I haven't had my first appointment with my new doctor yet.  I imagine it will have to wait until after my vacation.  I did tell the mammogram people I didn't want a mammogram.  I'll have to tell my surgeon still, but with getting PET scans every 3 months, I don't need more treatments.  I am just tired of all the tests. 

Dropping the Herceptin has given me more energy.  But now, my injection sites are getting sore.  One on each "buttocks".  Sucks.  Will I have to stop those, too?  I am aiming for quality of life.  Why extend life if it's going to be spent in a chair all the time.  I have things to do.