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Mind Altering Drugs
Well, not in the way you'd suppose.
Certainly I am hoping that the vaccine will help my body learn to right the wrong that is cancer. Just about as important, I've decided, is the fight itself. Having the diagnosis that I had at age 42, with a certain and speedy death predicted, can really affect ones thinking in very powerful ways. I have no idea whether having a "positive outlook" (how many times have you gritted your teeth and smiled when hearing that saccharine phrase?) will affect my actual outcome in any way, shape or form. Hope, however, I must have to get out of bed in the morning, take my medicine and face my friends. Otherwise I may just sit here waiting for the sand to run out.
I am human and as such deeply flawed but I am a fighter. At the end of the day I've decided that if the doctors at the University of Washington are willing to give this a chance then so am I. And who knows, it just might work!
mary
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