Hi everyone,
I will be starting a new direction in my post cancer recovery. Hopefully as early as next week I will begin Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. It will consist of daily two hour sessions (M-F) for at least a month if not longer. I will be able to read during this two hour time frame which will be productive as I do have a backlog of reading.
I will be in a chamber with pure oxygen and the purpose of this is to help fight my infection and accelerate the healing process. The infection is still in my upper jaw and we are hopeful that this will finally bring it to an end.
This process may also help with the current efforts to regain my mouth opening and reduce the damage from the radiation and scar tissue.
The hospital I am going to is 5 minutes from the office which is wonderful. I will be there at 0645 each morning for my session and then return to the office.
I did have another option to use a hyperbaric chamber that BP (Barack Petroleum) had available, but they wanted me to also put a cap on their leak and I was supposed to take a pipe wrench and cap with me on the "dive"....... however, the "divemasters" were some guys called Harry and Joe and it looked kinda shaky.
Semper Fi
M (email post from June 23, 2010)
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As of today, M has learned that he cannot, in fact,read. The helmet used to pressurize his head is made of blurry plastic of some sort. So, for two hours everyday, Monday through Friday, for two months, he will sit and wait and hope this treatment will help.
Thank you for your prayers and thoughtfulness during this time.
"The battle is the Lord's" 1 Samuel 17:47
love, T
I'm praying this will help. Bummer he won't be able to read though...
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