First day of Treatment

Well, folks, after Seth and I toured 3 clinics (2 day clinics and 1 stay-in clinic) we settled on Stella Maris Clinic, and I started my first treatment today.  Stella Maris is a small clinic and very clean.  For the most part, the patients are on comfortable rocker/recliners, receiving their IV drips and being served fresh squeezed juice and fruit - really breakfast and lunch.  Patients are treated 6 days a week by Dr. Alvarez and his nurse and the cook, and then they have Sunday to themselves. 

   Seth and I have been staying in San Ysidro, in a motel-6 type place that provides shuttle service to the clinics in Tijuana.  The best part is talking with the other passengers on the shuttle.  The worst part is the patience a person has to have to cross back into California from Tijuana.  Today's trip took the longest yet:  1 1/4 hours from the time we arrived at the border station until we got out of the bus and into the processing building.

   Tonight we have moved upscale, to a Howard Johnson's express in Natonal City.  No little itchy things in the carpet.  Tomorrow night we will probably go back to the place we started from, and then Monday when I travel to the clinic, I will take my baggage and transfer to a very nice hotel in Tijuana,  the Hotel Lucerna Tijuana.  Seth leaves Sunday night (back to work, his job is done) and Larry (Levine) is coming down to take over on Monday.  You would think I was a delicate creature!

   Friday afternoon, after our tour of the 3rd clinic in Tijuana, we met up with Melissa and Vlad, who are dancing aboard one of the Carnival ships based in San Diego.  They had a few hours free, so we met for a late lunch, and then took a walk to a "pocket" park that Melissa had stumbled upon.  We really admired how green and trimmed the grass was, until Seth declared that it was artificial.  Yep, pretend grass.  It looked real, even felt real.  Melissa and Vlad look good, strong, and trim.  They also left over half their lunch each to have for dinner.  Not so Seth and I.  Hmmmmmm

   So if you want to know more about the clinic and it's treatments,  check out stellamarisclinic.com.  Here's a photo (from Seth's telephone)  of Melissa, Vlad and I sitting on the fake grass.

   And here's one taken with my cell phone having the IV of vitamin C and laetrile.  (I'm really much better looking then this photo shows:)  There were 2 other patients being treated, a guy from Australia, and a second guy from Thailand who was originally from Australia.

   By the way, my pretend phone is not working all that well.  I can get the message, but if I pick up the phone to talk, sometimes one or both of us sounds very underwater and not very understandable.  I'll let you know if we come up with something different.

  Lots of love, and thanks for all of your support!