PARABENS FILIPA

15 years ago
Video coming soon. When I figure out how to digitize video 8 footage.
Belaaaaaaaaaaa preciso da tua ajuda!

I am back home. Two hundred miles (320km?) separate my house from Sloan-Kettering. Next week the girls are going also. It´s just too hard to enjoy Manhattan without them. Especially when you run into camels.

Apparently we also ran into the Secretary of Homeland Security... but that´s another story. I´ll tell you tomorrow.

Maria Tonta em Nova Iorque

I completed the first week of Brivanib and I must say that as far as chemo drugs go, this is one of the "nice" ones. Hard to believe that I did not need Zoffran (anti-nausea). The only side effects I felt were dizziness and fatigue. The Protocol is not bad either. I only have to come to NY once a week.

The Turmeric Girl

I often return to this moment. To the girl selling tumeric on a street of Bhaktapur. I only took these two photos. I wish I had taken more. As I walked away from her I kept looking back. I remember telling Zé and Filipa to notice the girl, the tumeric and the gray tones that surrounded her. There was harmony between the cool and warm colors.

I am talking about this beautiful girl I saw in a street of Nepal in 1999 because I add turmeric to almost everything I cook. Turmeric (cúrcuma longa) seems to be a great anti-cancer spice.

um poema da Filipa

Life and Adventure are waiting.
by FE, November 3, 2008

Adventure awaits in a hidden place,

that can only be reach through dreams.
It draws you towards it,

like an unstoppable magnet.
Your soul yearns it,

your heart aches for it.

Dreams are waiting to be fulfilled.
Stories are ready to be finished.
Songs are prepared to be sung.

Go forth, go far,

travel the world.
Imagine the things you could learn,

the things you could experience.
Life will not come to you,

you must go to Life.

read more in Filipa's blog.

welcome back
American Dream

How to Vote - by Maya

(Maya wrote and read the text)

No black pepper?

Yes. No grapefruit juice, no orange juice and no black pepper with this study drug.
Four 200mg tablets by mouth. Once a day. The name of the drug is Brivanib. The name of the clinical trial BMS-582664.
Now we just have to keep our fingers and toes crossed. For all liposarcoma patients and for me.