Message: 6

Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 16:14:27 -0700

Subject: Good News

Hi everyone,

Well I was a bit nervous about receiving the results of my 3 monthly

blood tests on Friday. It was, well if this 80% raw fruit and

vegetable diet hasn't worked i'm selling the house and travelling the

world, but i jumped up and down with delight, at the Haematologist's,

The results could not have been better, Phew!.
This healthy diet is working. Not only has my anemia gone, in three
months, haemoglobin was a low 9.3 is now a normal 12.6, white blood
cell went down from 51,000 to 46,600, which is great, and red blood
cells are a healthy normal 4.6. Everything else has strengthened.

Platelets went up from 232k to 262k better than normal, haematocrit
was .32 is now .38 normal. MCH (volume of red blood cells was .70 now
a normal .83 MCH (volume of haemoglobin in red cells) was 20 now 28
also normal and B2 microglobin is a healthy normal 1.3.

The doctor was very pleased and i will only need to visit for a CBC
(complete blood count) 3 times a year now. I have a smouldering
leukemia she says and it could stay this way for 30 years! But even if
it became aggressive in 5 years time, monoclonal antigen technology
will have advanced so much it will be as controllable as diabetes.

My doctor asked whether i was eating a lot of bananas or something,
because my potassium had gone up a whopping 5.4, from 3.7, but i
reminded her of my high vegetable and fruit diet. B12 was higher than

normal at 1100 and Serum Folate (folic acid) was also high at 33 and

RC folate 986, most probably the results of combining veg juices with

supplements. It makes me very happy as vegetarians are usually low

in B12, and i was dreading eating meat for iron, if the leukemia was

causing the anemia, but fortunately it wasn't.

She was pleased at how tiny the lymph nodes were now and the leukemia

itch has been gone for 3 months now, small cuts and scratches now heal

in 24 hours, better than ever, fatigue has completely gone and i feel

fit as a fiddle, tromping through these Blue Mountains 90 ks west of

Sydney with my beloved dogs each day.

So now i will just stay on this healthy diet for till the end of my

days and have a fabulous, dearly appreciated life.

Best of health to everyone,

Skye