Wednesday Jan 24

Today's word of the day is fatigue--at least for the first half of the day, when the only question was whether I felt more like lying on my left side and facing the door, or on my right side and facing the window.

Now I'm doing much better and waiting for my lunch to come.

They've added another step to my oral care regimen: 3 times a day, I will wash down 16 oz of L-Gluatmine solution with the aim being to aid in the repair/health of my throat & gut.

VISUALIZATION EXERCISES

THE FEMURS OF CHATEAU BLOGGER

Stem cell = 1 grape
Femurs = each a long and skinny wine-growing estate on a sunny hillside
Other long bones = outlying plots of land that are attached to Chateau Blogger
Marrow = the actual vines, old and overlapping of Chateau Blogger

In a good year, Chateau Blogger can have as many as a billion individual grapes on the vine. But we will have to burn the vines and start over.

Knowing we would have to burn all the vines at Chateau Blogger, a small crew went out, with Mozabil grape shears and cut 18.28 million of unripe grapes from the vines. These were separated, sprayed with DMSO and put into the freezer at the local cooperative.

Soon thereafter, the vineyard hands set fire, repeatedly, to the vines for 5 days of burning.  After a day of rest, the grapes were retrieved from the co-op and planted in the ground.  Unfortunately, we will miss a season of harvest, and will be dangerously short of grapes, raisins, skins/tannins, and wine for a season (a week) while the freshly-planted grapes take root, grow, and produce fruit.


GILLETTE STADIUM

Gillette stadium holds 66,000 people.  I have a crowd of 9 million people (stem cells) that I'd like to get settled in their seats.

It ends up being something like 4 million stem cells per femur, with a million more scattered across the rest of my marrow.

I want each of my femurs to soak up 60 Gillette Stadiums worth of stem cells.  In my mind's eye, I picture 66,000 white cells nestled in their seats, and then I shrink that image and nestle it into my femur's core.  Repeat 60 times each side. there's plenty of room and what's important is that they get settled, not that they settle in any particular bone.