One day while browsing on the internet I saw an add for a book titled The Beautiful Cure by Daniel M Davis a Professor of Immunology. The title sparked my interest so I read the reviews and thought that someday I would like to read this book. So I scratched the title on a little sticky note on my desk. When the pandemic hit I quickly looked all over my desk for that little sticky note. I finally found it and ordered it immediately. I wanted to know more about my immune system and how it works. What better way than to read a book written by an Immunologist. By the way, shouldn't they have a big "say" into how we handle pandemics and vaccine development. I don't think I've seen one Immunologist on the news. Very strange to me.
I have to recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about their immune system. It is so well written that I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed it so much I looked to see if Professor Davis had written any other books and sure enough he had. I ordered it, The Compatibility Gene, and thoroughly enjoyed it also. He takes us on a journey of immune cells, history and genetics. Both books are easy to understand, you don't need to be a scientist to understand the science in the books. The biggest message from theses books is that there is still so much we DON'T know about how our immune systems work. It really is a beautiful miraculous symphony of processes. I don't think we will ever have a super computer that will be able to do what our immune system does day after day. One other piece of information I found very interesting is that Immunologists know that vaccines are not as effective in older people. Just like we don't know why we age they don't know why they are not as effective. I find that very interesting and why is the medical industry pushing flu shots on seniors?
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Scientists have known that bats carry Sars like Corona viruses and have been studying these viruses for some time now. I think that many people in Ca have been exposed to a Sars like virus from the bats that live among us. I want to share my story about bats and I think you might find it very interesting.
My dad retired to the Palm Dessert hills area in the early 1990's. On a visit to see him in 1998 when I was pregnant with my first daughter I would sit out by the pool at dusk and watch the bats flying in the sky looking for their nightly feast. I was fascinated with the way they bounced around in the sky. They would even swoop down to the pool to drink the water. When I returned to Northern Ca I developed a weird breathing issue. I had no other symptoms. My inhalers weren't helping so I visited my doctor and he admitted me for IV steroids and breathing treatments. I was released two days later and made a complete recovery. We were all puzzled, even my doctor, by what I had picked up in Palm Desert. I never really gave it much thought until this pandemic hit. We visited my dad every year and on another visit with our first daughter when she was about 3 years old she developed a high fever and a little fatigue. No one else got sick and again I didn't think much of it. Then a few years laters with our second daughter with us on a visit to see dad she developed a high fever also. Since she has Type I diabetes we decided to take her to the ER. As we were sitting in ER waiting for her to be seen I immediately noticed that there was a lot of people waiting to be seen with severe coughs. We decided to leave and I watched her like a hawk all night long. She woke up fever free and a little fatigued. Again I didn't think much of it at the time. Also on those visits with our daughters we would walk to the local park at dusk to play because it was cooler. The girls also enjoyed watching the bats bouncing in the sky above us. I would tell them that they were like mice with wings. In 2010 my father in law became sick after visiting his cardiologist office. He told us there were so many people in the office with a bad cough. He knew he was going to get sick and sure enough he did. He was 82 and had cardiac problems. He was admitted because he had sudden on set breathing problems. He was then shortly thereafter put on a ventilator. Once he came off the ventilator they told him that he had permanent lung damage from a virus they didn't about (we now know SARS was going around CA at that time). They even transferred him to UC Davis for evaluation and they concluded the same thing, there is nothing we can do and a virus caused the damage to his lungs. Sadly, he died about a month after the illness hit him. Sounds a lot like what the current Covid virus is doing. We visited him in the rehabilitation hospital with no masks and hugged him. None of us got sick. My sister in law came to Ca from Chicago to take care of him. She then developed a pneumonia like illness and made a complete recovery. Here we are now in 2021 about ten years since SARS was here and we experiencing a world wide pandemic. Many people in Ca are testing positive for the virus and have no symptoms. It is most likely because many of us have seen a virus similar enough to the current Covid and our immune system is keeping it from infecting us. Our immune systems are truly amazing and there is still so much we don't know about how it operates so magically and beautifully. I'm pretty confident I have some immunity from the illness I had in the 1990's from my visit to Palm Desert. My youngest daughter has been away at school since Sept 2020 and the school has tested her weekly for seven months now. She has been negative for all her tests. Her roommate was sick in November of 2019 with a bad virus which lead to a bad cough for about six weeks. Again my daughter did not get the illness and she was literally sleeping 10 feet from her. She clearly had immunity to what ever virus her roommate was experiencing. So the current scientists are saying they don't know how long the immunity to Covid lasts but from our experience it lasts a long time. My daughter had the Palm Desert virus in about 2005 (myself in 1998) and she is consistently testing negative in 2020-21 and I have not been sick. Are the scientists studying the Ca bats? They should be because they most likely carry SARS like corona viruses. Our experience can't be all just coincidence. |
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