The Plague

Woke up this morning to a dull pain behind my eyes and an obstructed nasal passage... it is unmistakable... i have the plague, it has presented itself as a stuffy nose and inflamed sinuses. My wife has been ill since our holiday sojourn behind the orange curtain. Violent coughing racks her body on the bad nights, rendering her sleepless and exhausted. Typically, i am quite resilient against the common cold, but it has been a whole year or battling small sicknesses at home and at work, so i guess the chink in my armor was finally found and exploited.

Well, that above was yesterday... today... slightly more human in form and feel... slept for 12 hours thanks to modern medicine... though i doubt it was a peaceful night... awake all tangled up in the blanket and sheets with the cat giving me a slightly accusatory look for not being a good peaceful heat source through the night.

Need to continue more work around the Indiegogo campaign today - work that i didn't finish before passing out yesterday. It seems that we presumed too much on parts of the appeal of CanFel. Much of the feedback revealed that many people who has come by the site does not know the difference between conventional radiation/chemo therapy and antibody based therapeutics.

Antibody therapeutics versus chemo or radiation therapy:

Generally, antibody therapeutics is directed and specific to a target on a cell (the tumor cell) that will adversely affect the ability of the cell to propagate.

Generally, radiation and chemo therapy targets cells based on how fast they grow. The idea being that tumor cells are generally the fastest growing cells and thus targeting the rate of growth is direct and logical. Unfortunately, hair, GI mucosal epithelia, white blood cells are also rapidly growing cells. This is the reason why much of the side effects of radiation/chemo therapy is the loss of hair, GI symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, and loss of immunity due to loss of white blood cells.

Because of those two generalizations, it is generally believed that antibody based therapeutics is milder in side effects and better for the patient's quality of life.

That message, it seems, wasn't directly obvious on the Indiegogo site... that message is what we must strive to address...

On ward!! Through work today i will find health... i hope...