Dealing with Covid - Hoping the Ole T-Cells can fight it off.
It's been a tough few weeks. Andy and I both contracted Covid, probably the Delta Variant. As a T-Cell Lymphoma patient, I investigated mRNA treatments early on and the best specialist I could find told me to steer away, having something to do with the mutations I have of CD4 and CD53, related to the cancer. Again, I have the 'benefit' of personalized information, I suppose. Now I'l have natural immunity, at least to this variant. Funny how the science is showing that it lasts at least several months but we can't use it to gain access to the world like record of vaccination, which is showing only spotty immunity and now boosters are needed. So...as I've consulted with my current oncologist, the DO who has helped me so much, and others, I have hesitated to take the vaccines. I also have a young man I know who got the cardiomyopathy, a person at work who possibly lost her husband to a reaction from the vaccine, and a dear woman whose heart was fine (allowing her ...