Saturday, January 8, 2011

We're in need of a little help from our friends...

As we prepare to go back to the hospital so many people have asked if there is anything they can do to help so I figured out a way that you can. At 8am on Monday morning Georgia starts chemotherapy, the first four days she will get it four times a day, then days 5-7 she will get it once a day. Our request is this, when you think of Georgia getting her chemotherapy imagine it only attacking the cancer cells.. leaving the rest of her body alone. My step mom gave me a good image, we want the chemo to go to her bone marrow so imagine her long bones a different color than the rest of her body... or imagine the cancer cells as sticky so the chemo will stick to them and wash over the rest of her body leaving it unscathed. Georgia is too young to visualize this for herself but there is proof that this is effective so we can all do this for her.

Here is a paragraph from an article that I found on visualization:


The power of visualization is so strong that is has been found to influence our physiology at a microbiological level. Cancer patients taught to practice visualization of tumors shrinking and cancer cells dying as an adjunct to chemotherapy, got well at a significantly higher rate than a control group receiving only chemotherapy. The literature is full of examples of controlled studies where visualization has been used to enhance both physiology and performance.

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