101. Chemo Finger Lickin' Fingers and Toes!

Mel B. came for a visit the other day.  And that reminded me of a story she told me at the beginning of my chemo treatment, which triggered an experiment I did later on.  So I had to try it again the other night just to verify if it would still work.  It did.  If you don't believe me, go ahead and  try it for yourself...

Mel's husband passed away with cancer several years ago.  It was a blessing for him because radiation treatments had ravaged his body to the point where he had severe radiation burns.  Medical staff at he time tried anything and everything to alleviate the man's pain at the radiation site but nothing worked until one day, a nurse gave some "magic patches" to put on the wound.  The side of those patches closest to the skin was infused with raw honey!  Mel remembers that these honey patches would give her husband relief from his pain.  You may recall that one of my worst side effects from chemo is neuropathy, nerve damage to my fingers and toes.  It has been 2 months since my last treatment, but the neuropathy has not disappeared.  I have been using Dr. Joe's LiveRelief to get some relief: not bad, but expensive.  Then I remembered Mel's story and I smeared some honey on both hands and especially my fingers: instant relief!  I attributed this to wishful thinking at first. So I managed to talk 2 other ex-chemo patients into using the honey also and lo and behold they also found relief!  So I think there must be something to it, what and how I don't know.  It has to be raw unadulterated honey, a honey substitute will not do!  Of course the drawbacks are obvious: you end up with sticky fingers and as a result can't touch anything (a dandy way of getting out of doing housework! 😉).  And some time after you wash off the honey the side effects will come back.  So the relief is only temporary, but it is relief nevertheless!   Now if Someone were to manage to extract the healing components out of honey without the stickiness, this someone could be the next multimillionaire!  How about You? 😉

 Back in a couple of days or right after the weekend.  SanTeh!