Cases from private practices - Papimi

ML Whew! I don't know if I would have lasted that long. I guess I'm awfully lucky to have been
chosen as an experimental subject. But I agonize for all those other HIV-positive people out there. Isn't
there some way of letting them know that there is new hope for them on the horizon.
CW I know you do, and I feel the same way. I've agreed to keep the details and location of the
research project confidential, but perhaps you and I could get some early information published--just to
send a message--hang in there for just a little while longer. Live sensibly and survive; help is coming.
ML Great idea! Let's do it. Those people saved my life, and I'd like everyone to know about it. When
I think of the hope it could bring into so many lives...
INTERVIEW WITH A HIV+ patient R.V.
CW For the record, it is 9 July 1993. I understand that you are a female Caucasian, 45 years
old, a professional writer in the Los Angeles area, who was diagnosed as HIV+ in 1989, and that you do
not know the source of infection.
RV
CW
Yes, that is correct.
What symptoms of AIDS-related complications have you had over the past five years
RV None, really. That is, not any of the usual ones, except for an unusually low T-cell count
and a sort of chronic fatigue.
CW
RV
No infections or anything like that
No, nothing that I can thing of.
CW You are very lucky. But then I guess you know that the immune system is complex, and
there are other protective mechanisms operating.
RV Yes, that's what my doctor told me. He said that the other parts of my immune system
seem to be intact, but he is not sure just what is causing the fatigue except that it seems to correspond to
my T-cell count .
CW
RV
CW
When did you start the magnetic induction therapy
In January. About six months ago.
Did your doctor refer you to the research program
RV No, my cousin works at the clinic where these machines are being tested and he suggested
I try it out. But my doctor knows about it.
CW
RV
CW
How often do you have treatments
Once or twice a week, depending on how I feel.
Can you tell me, in your own words, the treatment procedure
RV Well, I check in and fill out a form each time. They want to know how I feel and if there
have been any problems since the last treatment. Then they take my vital signs and put me in the machine.
I hold the loop in different places around my chest area, because that is where the T-cells are
manufactured. I do this for 40 minutes. They check on me from time to time, and that all there is to it.
CW
What results do you experience
RV The only way I can describe it is that I just feel energized. The fatigue seems to melt away.
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