January 2, 2023

By: Babette Lamarre

EDITOR’S NOTE: Babette has finally completed treatment at Immunocine. Now back home, the Immunocine Team will stay in contact with her to evaluate any future medical reports and scans. These follow ups are critical to ensure her physicians know what to expect going forward and Babette’s Immune System continues to attack her cancer.

With her treatment complete, Babette kindly volunteered to write an update to her previous blog post.

December 24, 2022

It's Christmas in Cancun!

I am SO excited!!! When I press down where my biggest tumor is in my lower right abdomen, it hurts! I know this is good. I know it means the tumor tissue is being dismantled, like when there’s tenderness and slight swelling around a bruise that slowly goes away.

Still – as happy as I have been with the evidence of the therapy working, I would be lying if I said that I had spent all of my dendritic cell immunotherapy “flu time” lounging on the beach drinking fresh coconuts straight out of the shell.

November 26, 2022

The Start of an Immune Response

No, what happened is I felt sicker slowly – first a headache, then fatigue, then body aches and fever, then a sore throat, sneezing, and “tooth pain” (more likely sinus pain). I developed one or two new symptoms per day, each day all symptoms becoming stronger until day seven. I felt depressed, l had a poor appetite and even queasiness.

My fever reached 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.5 degrees celsius) and held for twelve hours. Though at all times, I had access to the Immunocine Team for support and guidance.

This is exactly what happens with any immune reaction, such as to a cold or flu. The whole thing lasted nine days. It wasn’t horrible, but the worst three days were something to get through as best I could, and I did have a nagging thought that maybe this would go on for months.

I did not make it to the beach as usual for the cool breeze during those three days. I sweated out my fever in my Airbnb bed and felt a bit irritated that the air conditioning must be broken – when it was not.

Boy was I relieved the morning I woke up and realized my fever had broken, my room was cool, and my headache had diminished significantly. Within three days of that I felt at 100% again.