Hello Silverados - Well, it's been yet another near-death roller coaster ride! This time was THE worst ever. It started as a cold which complicated my Cystic Fibrosis. Then I waited too long to get into the hospital for the IV drug treatment and it became a very close call. Now I'm back in the same old hospital crap: Drugs and their terrible side-affects and whether they're worth using against the bugs that are killing me. Along the way they discovered a bad bug that's been eating up my lungs probably for years. It's a TB-related complex "myco-bacterium" that's *very* hard to kill. It'll be a long-term drug therapy that may take a whole 2 YEARS -- until after the year 2000!! 3 drugs are used at the same time that will turn my urine and tears ORANGE. There was also another bug found in the culture that they could not identify and ended up sending to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Suffice it to say, I'm not a happy camper at this time. I also discovered a new and interesting tid-bit about Cystic Fibrosis (CF): While the alternative therapies (especially Colloidal Silver) have been excellent at killing some of the worst bugs known to the CF world, they also ironically could create an opening for something new and potentially even worse to move in! It seems that -- like everything else ion the Universe -- these little critters are territorial and don't want other bugs crowding their space. So, in a sense, this would make Pseudomonas aeruginosa (one of the worse killers in the CF world) my friend! VERY STRANGE. This just serves to illustrate all the more how complex the nature of our being is. I guess there really are no simple answers here.
This has been the short report. I'm grateful to everyone for your concern and prayers/best wishes during this HELLISH period for me... it was really touching. I'm still stuck in the hospital for now. I'll update this as more is learned, but for now, I'm off the CS (by my doctor's request) til we get word from the CDC on what that mystery bug is. One final note: I was very good friends with the man called Joost -- or "Jovo" (http://www.jovo.com.hk/) -- and was extremely shocked and saddened to learn of his sudden death when I finally checked email from here. All I could do was stare at the screen in tearful disbelief. Sleeping was difficult that night. He was a great and trustworthy friend who was always willing to help and a true warrior; a real fighter. He left behind two sons whom he loved dearly. He was also the last person I communicated with before entering the hospital; he said he would pray for me. He will be missed. For those interested, he'd begun posting the story of his life (http://jovo.com.hk/Jovostory.htm). Take care all -- Dameon -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
