April 22, 2024 • 24 mins
In today's episode, I'll tell a story of a 17-year-old Brazilian girl who understood the true meaning of success in life.
To reach this conclusion, she had to go through a very painful process that she has not yet finished.
It seems it's always like this: we have to "kill" ourselves to reach the treasure. In this girl's case, she literally had to "kill" herself to discover that true happiness lies in serving others, not being served, that it's the little things that bring beauty to our journey on this earth, not the grand moments, and finally, feeling grateful for being here.
This last part may be difficult to understand in the case of Isabel, our heroine today.
Isabel Veloso, her name, is 17 years old, Brazilian, and a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, she will only live for another 4 months (according to doctors) because she has an incurable cancerous tumor.
But even so, let's make the most of these 4 months of her life left to learn from her what it means to live with purpose.
We have a lot to learn from her. It's her that I'm going to talk to you about today...
https://oncoexperts.com.br/artigo/como-e-feito-o-autotransplante-de-medula-ossea
https://www.cuf.pt/saude-a-z/linfoma-de-hodgkin
My personal Instagram account: @favelosacamara
Isabel Veloso Personal Account: @isabelveloso
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/david-goliath--6134668/support.
To reach this conclusion, she had to go through a very painful process that she has not yet finished.
It seems it's always like this: we have to "kill" ourselves to reach the treasure. In this girl's case, she literally had to "kill" herself to discover that true happiness lies in serving others, not being served, that it's the little things that bring beauty to our journey on this earth, not the grand moments, and finally, feeling grateful for being here.
This last part may be difficult to understand in the case of Isabel, our heroine today.
Isabel Veloso, her name, is 17 years old, Brazilian, and a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, she will only live for another 4 months (according to doctors) because she has an incurable cancerous tumor.
But even so, let's make the most of these 4 months of her life left to learn from her what it means to live with purpose.
We have a lot to learn from her. It's her that I'm going to talk to you about today...
https://oncoexperts.com.br/artigo/como-e-feito-o-autotransplante-de-medula-ossea
https://www.cuf.pt/saude-a-z/linfoma-de-hodgkin
My personal Instagram account: @favelosacamara
Isabel Veloso Personal Account: @isabelveloso
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/david-goliath--6134668/support.
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(00:13):
Hi guys, and welcome to anotherepisode of David and Goliath podcast. It's
me Francisco. Monty Python Really isa film in nineteen seventy five called Monty
Python and the Holy Grail. TheMonty Python characters must be about the same
age as my father would have beenaround eighty years old, so in nineteen
(00:38):
seventy five they would have been aroundthirty five years old. And it's around
this age that questions like what arewe doing here? Where did I come
from? Where I'm going start toappear. At least it was at thirty
six years old that I started,or rather return to ask myself these same
(01:00):
questions. You don't know it,but I'm a bit lazy. Yes,
I'm not perfect. If I haveto take a shortcut, I will,
but I think everyone would if theycould. Yes, it might be an
excuse to justify my laziness. SinceI admitted that I'm lazy, I went
(01:21):
online to see what it's said aboutthis movie. Although watches a few years
ago, Netflix has the best summaryof the film, which says the following.
The comedy Clan tells the story ofKing Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table on their quest for theHoly Grail Monty Python style. In short
(01:42):
terms, the Holy Grail is amagical vessel, while christ blood was collected
in a chalice during the crucification andwhich could give new vigor to the people
and life. In the tale ofKing Carthur, the search for the Holy
Grail could have I have the abilityto restore peace to his kingdom, something
(02:04):
external that could bring about the desiredpeace. We spend a lot of our
lives searching for peace, something thatgives us peace and clarity so that when
we can live our lives to thefullest. We spend time chasing after something
that supposedly can bring us the joyand happiness we desire. The legend of
(02:28):
the Holy Grail perfectly simpathies what Ijust said and how wrong we are,
how wrong I've been for the fortysix years of my life. In today's
episode, I will tell you astory of his seventeen year old old Brazilian
girl who wants to the true meaningof success in life. To reach this
(02:51):
conclusion, she had to go througha very painful process that she has not
yet finished. It seems like thiswe have to kill ourselves to reach the
treasure. In this girl's case,she literally had to kill herself to discover
that true happiness lies in serving others, not being served, and it's the
(03:13):
little things that bring beauty to ourjourney on this earth, not the grand
moments. And finally feeling grateful forbeing here. This last part may be
difficult to understand in case of Isabelour Erian to day Isabel Velozzo. Her
name is seventy years old, Brazilianand a beautiful girl. And fortunately she
(03:38):
will only live for another four monthsaccording to the doctors, because she has
an incredible cancer's humor. But evenso, let's make the most of these
four months of her life to learnfrom her what it means to live with
purpose. We have a lot tolearn from her. It's heard I'm going
(04:00):
to talk to you about today.This is the David and Goliath podcast,
and I will tell you real storiesfrom normal people who had great mighty wars
and defeated their giants. Oagkins lymphoma. Just hearing that sends shivers down your
(04:20):
spine. Just the name lymphoma soundsghastly and Oachkins only brings to mind the
movie Silence of the Lamps. Thestachopath who was locked up craving blood and
death. It seems that when yousay this name, nothing good goes with
it. Once again, to provemy lesseness, I went searched for what
(04:45):
this bug is. I found iton the website of a poor private Portuguese
hospital. Oagkins lymphoma is a typeof hematologic cancer. Lymphomer is a generic
term to classify can that develop inlymphocytes and consequently in organs that lymphatic system.
(05:06):
The disease resembles cancer in that themechanism of his formation is equivalent.
The abnormal lymphoicites do not fulfill theirfunction of protecting against inventions and other diseases.
Oldskin's lymphoma is a disease that morecommonly appears in young adults with enlarged
(05:28):
lymph nodes in the neck, chests, or other locations. In the case
of Isabelle, a huge tumor appearedin the chest area. I said it
was a crap and it really is. But before getting into this, let's
talk about who Isabella Luzo is Isabellaof Lawso is seventy years old Brazilian,
(05:54):
as I mentioned before, born inthe state of Parana, Brazil. She
is blonde datting a guy named LucasBarboza, who she married on April thirteenth
of this year, fulfilling the dreamof the young couple. They met at
a gym. Is Isabelle was doingin his exercise in which she couldn't lift
(06:17):
the weights. Lucas noticed and approachedher, asking if she needed help.
She said yes, and Lucas helpedher. Isabella recounts that she immediately felt
a strong interest in Lucas. Shesays that she moved on to other exercise
(06:38):
and this time pretend to have thesame proble as in the first one,
just so he would come over tohelp her. Isabel always went to the
gym with one of her sisters andLucas went with his friends. Gradually they
developed a friendship. Both had comefrom law the relationships where they were very
(07:01):
hurt. However, Lucas was determinedto follow his heart. He invited her
to lunch, which she refused.Isabel said it was to play hard to
get with him. However, hedidn't give up, and a week later
Isabella's no, Lucas invited her todinner. They eight pizza made by him,
(07:26):
and then they shared their first kiss. Isabel said. She turned to
him and said, this relationship isgoing to end in a marriage, so
if you want to date, youalready know we are going to have to
get married. Lucas agreed, andthat's how their relationship began. At this
(07:47):
point, Isabella was supposedly already cancerfree from the first cancer. When Isabel
was about thirteen years old, shewas admitted with shortness of breath and vomiting.
It was found that her lungs werefulfilled with fluid. About three and
(08:09):
a half liters of fluid were removedin this first drainage. She was seen
by five daughters, none of whomcould actually diagnosed her. One said it
was just a slight nausea that teawould cure it. Others said it was
(08:30):
gastritz, and others said it wasnothing special, that no tests would needed
because those were for inexperienced doctors.Our heroin always knew something wasn't right on
her body. She mentioned in oneof the podcasts she went to in that
when she passed her hand over herchest, she felt it raised prominent,
(08:54):
as if there was a hump inthe middle of it was about seventeen centimeters
white, seventeen centimeters long and seventeencentimeters height. It was so large that
it literally pushed her heart to theright side of her chest. If you
(09:20):
go to isabella Instagram in stories,you'll notice the size of the cancer.
It was also because of this thatthe fluid build up in her lung.
The process of removing fluid from thelung is painful. Not that I have
done it, no, but ifyou search online for how the procedure is
(09:41):
done, I'm absolutely sure you canimagine. The pain is a bell felt
an itole is inserted into the backuntil it reaches the plural. The pluri
is a membrane similar to a sacthat surrounds the lung. Yes, I
went to Ukipedia to see the thedefinition of pleurro. Once it reaches there,
(10:05):
a drain is inserted and the processof removing the fluid inside the lune
begins. It's a slow process sothat the lun doesn't collapse. Do you
know how many litters were drained fromIsabella's lung? Nine point five liters.
Fluid was constantly produced due to thepresent of the tumor, which was increasing
(10:28):
around the lung. Before getting theofficial result, Isabella had a chest x
ray. The woman who did theX ray looked or refied at Isabella and
ask her if she had lung problems. She replied no. She spent a
long time in the hospital, apparentlytoo long, until the biopsy result appeared.
(10:54):
It took a long time because theappearance of the cells showed that it
was not limphoma, and furthermore,it was an unclassified scale. Because of
this, complimentary zambs to the tumorhad to be performed outside the hospital.
She started semotherapy for three days.Isabel spent her time vomiting doing that therapy.
(11:18):
Isabella fell asleep and found herself ina very dark tunnel, as dark
as if she were in a forestin the moonless night. Isabella recalls it
that she never felt such a profoundpiece before, so profound she felt like
stopping breathing, and I think shedid stop breathing. Then she began to
(11:41):
hear two voices, one at theend of the tunnel telling her to close
her eyes, and another one sayingthe opposite, opened your eyes. The
latter one became increasingly audible, causingher to open them, and that what
she did. She suddenly opened hereyes, and then she vomited again.
(12:07):
The chemotherapy treatment wasn't working, soso she moved on to another type of
treatment called immunotherapy. Once again,I went online to see what is this
treatment consisted of. It's a treatmentthat used the patient's immune system to help
shrink the tumor. Tumor cells havethe ability to use disguise forms. Immunotherapy
(12:33):
can reverse this camouflage process and makethe immune system capable again to fighting cancer
cells. It is as if itremoves the brakes from the person's immune system,
making the tumor cells more easily recognizeand eliminated. It worked in Isabelle's
case. The tumor was shrinking.Then she underwent an autologous bone marrow transplant.
(13:01):
It's another very painful process for thefashions, not as much as draining
fluid from the lungs, but italso causes in men's pain. Affrom from
the internet out an autologous bone marrowtransplant is done from a Brazilian article.
(13:22):
The link to each is in thedescription. We save a quantity of storm
cells from the patient's bone marrow,subject them to hide doses of chemotherapy,
and then reintroduce these cells into theirbody explains the metologies in a very detected
way. It begins with preparing thepassion with medications to increase the quantity of
(13:45):
circulating storm cells in the blood.When the blood tests show a sufficient amount,
the person is connected to a machinethat filters blood, separating the stem
cells from the wrists and returning theblood to the body without these components in
a process called epho theories. Thestem cells are then stored in a bag
(14:11):
and frozen at a very low temperature. Only after this process does the pasion
receive chemotherapy in extremely high doses.Depending on the disease, the patient's conditions,
and the treatments protocol used, doctorsmay use radiation therapy along the chemotherapy.
(14:31):
It's an attempt to read the bodyof the tumor cells. The problem
is that the dose is so highthat it also affects the bone marrow.
Without the bone marrow fashioning, thebody stops producing platelets responsible for blood clothing,
red blood cells responsible for oxygen transport, and white blood cells, the
(14:54):
body's defense cells. This can leadto serious complications for the patients, such
as decreased immunity, anemia, andhigher risk of bleeding. After this intense
treatment, the patient receives back thestore stemstells injected by into the blood stream.
(15:16):
They similate the recovery of the marrow, which can start finishing again within
twenty days. This spirit of marrowrecovery requires isolation of the patient to prevent
them from getting an infection, astheir immune system is extremely fragile, says
the doctor. Isabel suffered a lotfrom this treatment. She suffered so much
(15:41):
that she lost feeling in her legsand her right arm. She couldn't walk
or move her arm. Lucas,her current husband, heard his wife's scream
in so much pain. She losther head, lost of a lot of
health too. But in May twentythree, Isabel bat cancer cancer free.
(16:03):
Apparently, it seems that all thesuffering and the pain were worth it.
Until last year, she found alamp in her neck. She already knew
medical tests confirm the cancer had returned. She had already told her family and
Lucas that if the cancer returned,she didn't want to be treated. She
(16:26):
had many injuries due to the treatmentsshe underwent the first time, she didn't
want more. She met with herdoctor daughter Melina Branco, who said that
the treatments wouldn't make the cancer disappear, but would keep it stable until when
it's not known, possibly in anothersix months of life, but it's an
(16:49):
assumption. She fulfilled what she hadtold her family, normal treatments and more
pain. Now she leaves everything inGod's hands. Isabella now wants to make
the most of these remaining six monthsof life. She already married to Lucas,
(17:11):
but she has two plans to goskydiving, to travel outside of Brazil,
maybe to Maldives, because it's somethingLucas wants to do. She wants
to enjoy life to the fullest withher recent husband. Overcoming her worst face
terminal cancer patience. But even withthis darn disease, even knowing she will
(17:36):
die within months, she says hermission is to heald and not to be
healed. She wants to be abeacon for others. So what does it
mean to be a beacon for others? Even with the terminal illness, she
doesn't want to stop smiling. Yes, she also cries because living under this
(17:56):
condition isn't easy. One must actthe harsh reality and not run away from
it. That takes courage, andyou know courage is the word we hear
most in this podcast. She wantsto be an example of gratitude to others
for the miracle of being a life. Of course, of course, there
(18:18):
are many things she won't do orfulfill. She would like to be a
mother, but apparently you know.But she said cancer was the best thing
she ever had in her life.Steve Jobs said in his speech that we
should live life as if we wereleaving our last day. That's what Isabella
(18:41):
is doing. She turning her paininto something that makes her more mature,
human being, more true to yourself. She wants to live in today,
not in the past, not intomorrow, to leave the little things that
life offers us and make us grandius. No, it's not just talk,
(19:04):
because it's not. It's so niceto wake up in early morning and see
the sunrise. Believe me it is. When she was a kid, Isabella
was a very anxious person, alwaysafraid of everything and everyone, always thinking
about tomorrow and ever about today.She says that most likely that anxiety caused
(19:30):
her disease. If you could seethe sparkle in her eyes when she said
she wanted to be the cure forothers. Of course, she wants to
be courteous, but Isabelle affirms thatwe are here to heal, to serve.
I want to be recalled to youwhat Jesus said. You know that
(19:52):
those who are considered rulers of thenation's lord it over them, and they're
great ones, exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among
you. But whoever would be greatamong you must be your servant, and
whoever will be first among you manytimes be slaves. Not always the plans
(20:15):
we drove. Bell is doing,not the plans that wants for you.
With her example of life being great, That's what happened to Isabelle. That's
what happened to me. No,I don't have cancer, but life also
threw me a curveball. Most likelyI have more than six months of life,
(20:36):
although nothing is certain. If youlisten to the episode of my podcast,
episode number ten, you'll hear mystory. From when I was born
until today, I always aspired tohire dreams and goals. One of those
dreams was to turn my old companyinto a major multinational. I was born
(20:59):
in July, and according to thedig oroscope, my sign is cancer.
There are people who value family alot in twenty three, I divorced from
my former partner, stopped living withmy daughters, and a month later I
closed my company. I lost thehouse where I lived, and I can't
(21:21):
have anything in my name or Ilose it. I live in fear of
opening the mailbox because a seizure ofcourt letter could suddenly appear. I live
alone, and three weeks ago Ilost my father. However, I can
assure that I never felt as peacefulas I do now. To get here,
(21:42):
had to be at the bottom ofthe black hole without light, cold,
damn alone with my thoughts. Itwas during those times that I began
to rebuild myself, not reclaim whatI lost because it's no longer worth it,
but to become more confident and thesecury human being. God put people
(22:04):
on my path who help me inthis process, because there is no self
met man. I believe so,and yes, I will repeat myself.
I'm at peace with myself now.If you go to my personal Instagram and
Facebook page, you'll find many photosof the sunrise. Almost every day I
(22:25):
go running, I always see thesun rising on those days, such a
beautiful spectacular that I try to capturewith my phone so that you can feel
a tiny part of what it's liketo witness this spectacular for free. You
can imagine the pleasure I have inwatching it from the front row. I
(22:47):
have other pleasures in life, likethis podcast, or being with my daughters,
or watching them playing volleyball or basketball, or open your door off my
house at the end of the day, hearing the birds orchestra early in the
morning, talking to more experienced peoplein life. Our meeting is a belle
of lawso and their life story,turning pain into gratitude, turning pain into
(23:14):
serving others, living life in thepresent. Yes, I wish my material
problem was solved. It will be. I can't guarantee you that it's just
a matter of time. I wouldlove for my daughters to live with me,
but they are fine, and ifthey are fine, I'm fine.
I would love to have a bigcompany. I will in the medium term
(23:37):
feit future. I would love tobe able to pay all the people my
company owes. It will be donein a due time. I would love
for my father to be alive.Is not and he won't be back,
but I will continue to use hissmile and kindness towards the others I found
(23:57):
peace within myself. I found thislove for life within myself, just like
Isabella Losso. This podcast is alsoa celebration of life that renews itself every
week so that all of us,including me, can be even happier.
(24:18):
Justlike Isabella the Losso. It's throughtransformation and pain into joy that I plan
to live the rest of my life. There's no need to search for the
Holy Grail because it lives within me.
Hi guys, and welcome to anotherepisode of David and Goliath podcast. It's
me Francisco. Monty Python Really isa film in nineteen seventy five called Monty
Python and the Holy Grail. TheMonty Python characters must be about the same
age as my father would have beenaround eighty years old, so in nineteen
(00:38):
seventy five they would have been aroundthirty five years old. And it's around
this age that questions like what arewe doing here? Where did I come
from? Where I'm going start toappear. At least it was at thirty
six years old that I started,or rather return to ask myself these same
(01:00):
questions. You don't know it,but I'm a bit lazy. Yes,
I'm not perfect. If I haveto take a shortcut, I will,
but I think everyone would if theycould. Yes, it might be an
excuse to justify my laziness. SinceI admitted that I'm lazy, I went
(01:21):
online to see what it's said aboutthis movie. Although watches a few years
ago, Netflix has the best summaryof the film, which says the following.
The comedy Clan tells the story ofKing Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table on their quest for theHoly Grail Monty Python style. In short
(01:42):
terms, the Holy Grail is amagical vessel, while christ blood was collected
in a chalice during the crucification andwhich could give new vigor to the people
and life. In the tale ofKing Carthur, the search for the Holy
Grail could have I have the abilityto restore peace to his kingdom, something
(02:04):
external that could bring about the desiredpeace. We spend a lot of our
lives searching for peace, something thatgives us peace and clarity so that when
we can live our lives to thefullest. We spend time chasing after something
that supposedly can bring us the joyand happiness we desire. The legend of
(02:28):
the Holy Grail perfectly simpathies what Ijust said and how wrong we are,
how wrong I've been for the fortysix years of my life. In today's
episode, I will tell you astory of his seventeen year old old Brazilian
girl who wants to the true meaningof success in life. To reach this
(02:51):
conclusion, she had to go througha very painful process that she has not
yet finished. It seems like thiswe have to kill ourselves to reach the
treasure. In this girl's case,she literally had to kill herself to discover
that true happiness lies in serving others, not being served, and it's the
(03:13):
little things that bring beauty to ourjourney on this earth, not the grand
moments. And finally feeling grateful forbeing here. This last part may be
difficult to understand in case of Isabelour Erian to day Isabel Velozzo. Her
name is seventy years old, Brazilianand a beautiful girl. And fortunately she
(03:38):
will only live for another four monthsaccording to the doctors, because she has
an incredible cancer's humor. But evenso, let's make the most of these
four months of her life to learnfrom her what it means to live with
purpose. We have a lot tolearn from her. It's heard I'm going
(04:00):
to talk to you about today.This is the David and Goliath podcast,
and I will tell you real storiesfrom normal people who had great mighty wars
and defeated their giants. Oagkins lymphoma. Just hearing that sends shivers down your
(04:20):
spine. Just the name lymphoma soundsghastly and Oachkins only brings to mind the
movie Silence of the Lamps. Thestachopath who was locked up craving blood and
death. It seems that when yousay this name, nothing good goes with
it. Once again, to provemy lesseness, I went searched for what
(04:45):
this bug is. I found iton the website of a poor private Portuguese
hospital. Oagkins lymphoma is a typeof hematologic cancer. Lymphomer is a generic
term to classify can that develop inlymphocytes and consequently in organs that lymphatic system.
(05:06):
The disease resembles cancer in that themechanism of his formation is equivalent.
The abnormal lymphoicites do not fulfill theirfunction of protecting against inventions and other diseases.
Oldskin's lymphoma is a disease that morecommonly appears in young adults with enlarged
(05:28):
lymph nodes in the neck, chests, or other locations. In the case
of Isabelle, a huge tumor appearedin the chest area. I said it
was a crap and it really is. But before getting into this, let's
talk about who Isabella Luzo is Isabellaof Lawso is seventy years old Brazilian,
(05:54):
as I mentioned before, born inthe state of Parana, Brazil. She
is blonde datting a guy named LucasBarboza, who she married on April thirteenth
of this year, fulfilling the dreamof the young couple. They met at
a gym. Is Isabelle was doingin his exercise in which she couldn't lift
(06:17):
the weights. Lucas noticed and approachedher, asking if she needed help.
She said yes, and Lucas helpedher. Isabella recounts that she immediately felt
a strong interest in Lucas. Shesays that she moved on to other exercise
(06:38):
and this time pretend to have thesame proble as in the first one,
just so he would come over tohelp her. Isabel always went to the
gym with one of her sisters andLucas went with his friends. Gradually they
developed a friendship. Both had comefrom law the relationships where they were very
(07:01):
hurt. However, Lucas was determinedto follow his heart. He invited her
to lunch, which she refused.Isabel said it was to play hard to
get with him. However, hedidn't give up, and a week later
Isabella's no, Lucas invited her todinner. They eight pizza made by him,
(07:26):
and then they shared their first kiss. Isabel said. She turned to
him and said, this relationship isgoing to end in a marriage, so
if you want to date, youalready know we are going to have to
get married. Lucas agreed, andthat's how their relationship began. At this
(07:47):
point, Isabella was supposedly already cancerfree from the first cancer. When Isabel
was about thirteen years old, shewas admitted with shortness of breath and vomiting.
It was found that her lungs werefulfilled with fluid. About three and
(08:09):
a half liters of fluid were removedin this first drainage. She was seen
by five daughters, none of whomcould actually diagnosed her. One said it
was just a slight nausea that teawould cure it. Others said it was
(08:30):
gastritz, and others said it wasnothing special, that no tests would needed
because those were for inexperienced doctors.Our heroin always knew something wasn't right on
her body. She mentioned in oneof the podcasts she went to in that
when she passed her hand over herchest, she felt it raised prominent,
(08:54):
as if there was a hump inthe middle of it was about seventeen centimeters
white, seventeen centimeters long and seventeencentimeters height. It was so large that
it literally pushed her heart to theright side of her chest. If you
(09:20):
go to isabella Instagram in stories,you'll notice the size of the cancer.
It was also because of this thatthe fluid build up in her lung.
The process of removing fluid from thelung is painful. Not that I have
done it, no, but ifyou search online for how the procedure is
(09:41):
done, I'm absolutely sure you canimagine. The pain is a bell felt
an itole is inserted into the backuntil it reaches the plural. The pluri
is a membrane similar to a sacthat surrounds the lung. Yes, I
went to Ukipedia to see the thedefinition of pleurro. Once it reaches there,
(10:05):
a drain is inserted and the processof removing the fluid inside the lune
begins. It's a slow process sothat the lun doesn't collapse. Do you
know how many litters were drained fromIsabella's lung? Nine point five liters.
Fluid was constantly produced due to thepresent of the tumor, which was increasing
(10:28):
around the lung. Before getting theofficial result, Isabella had a chest x
ray. The woman who did theX ray looked or refied at Isabella and
ask her if she had lung problems. She replied no. She spent a
long time in the hospital, apparentlytoo long, until the biopsy result appeared.
(10:54):
It took a long time because theappearance of the cells showed that it
was not limphoma, and furthermore,it was an unclassified scale. Because of
this, complimentary zambs to the tumorhad to be performed outside the hospital.
She started semotherapy for three days.Isabel spent her time vomiting doing that therapy.
(11:18):
Isabella fell asleep and found herself ina very dark tunnel, as dark
as if she were in a forestin the moonless night. Isabella recalls it
that she never felt such a profoundpiece before, so profound she felt like
stopping breathing, and I think shedid stop breathing. Then she began to
(11:41):
hear two voices, one at theend of the tunnel telling her to close
her eyes, and another one sayingthe opposite, opened your eyes. The
latter one became increasingly audible, causingher to open them, and that what
she did. She suddenly opened hereyes, and then she vomited again.
(12:07):
The chemotherapy treatment wasn't working, soso she moved on to another type of
treatment called immunotherapy. Once again,I went online to see what is this
treatment consisted of. It's a treatmentthat used the patient's immune system to help
shrink the tumor. Tumor cells havethe ability to use disguise forms. Immunotherapy
(12:33):
can reverse this camouflage process and makethe immune system capable again to fighting cancer
cells. It is as if itremoves the brakes from the person's immune system,
making the tumor cells more easily recognizeand eliminated. It worked in Isabelle's
case. The tumor was shrinking.Then she underwent an autologous bone marrow transplant.
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It's another very painful process for thefashions, not as much as draining
fluid from the lungs, but italso causes in men's pain. Affrom from
the internet out an autologous bone marrowtransplant is done from a Brazilian article.
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The link to each is in thedescription. We save a quantity of storm
cells from the patient's bone marrow,subject them to hide doses of chemotherapy,
and then reintroduce these cells into theirbody explains the metologies in a very detected
way. It begins with preparing thepassion with medications to increase the quantity of
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circulating storm cells in the blood.When the blood tests show a sufficient amount,
the person is connected to a machinethat filters blood, separating the stem
cells from the wrists and returning theblood to the body without these components in
a process called epho theories. Thestem cells are then stored in a bag
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and frozen at a very low temperature. Only after this process does the pasion
receive chemotherapy in extremely high doses.Depending on the disease, the patient's conditions,
and the treatments protocol used, doctorsmay use radiation therapy along the chemotherapy.
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It's an attempt to read the bodyof the tumor cells. The problem
is that the dose is so highthat it also affects the bone marrow.
Without the bone marrow fashioning, thebody stops producing platelets responsible for blood clothing,
red blood cells responsible for oxygen transport, and white blood cells, the
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body's defense cells. This can leadto serious complications for the patients, such
as decreased immunity, anemia, andhigher risk of bleeding. After this intense
treatment, the patient receives back thestore stemstells injected by into the blood stream.
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They similate the recovery of the marrow, which can start finishing again within
twenty days. This spirit of marrowrecovery requires isolation of the patient to prevent
them from getting an infection, astheir immune system is extremely fragile, says
the doctor. Isabel suffered a lotfrom this treatment. She suffered so much
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that she lost feeling in her legsand her right arm. She couldn't walk
or move her arm. Lucas,her current husband, heard his wife's scream
in so much pain. She losther head, lost of a lot of
health too. But in May twentythree, Isabel bat cancer cancer free.
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Apparently, it seems that all thesuffering and the pain were worth it.
Until last year, she found alamp in her neck. She already knew
medical tests confirm the cancer had returned. She had already told her family and
Lucas that if the cancer returned,she didn't want to be treated. She
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had many injuries due to the treatmentsshe underwent the first time, she didn't
want more. She met with herdoctor daughter Melina Branco, who said that
the treatments wouldn't make the cancer disappear, but would keep it stable until when
it's not known, possibly in anothersix months of life, but it's an
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assumption. She fulfilled what she hadtold her family, normal treatments and more
pain. Now she leaves everything inGod's hands. Isabella now wants to make
the most of these remaining six monthsof life. She already married to Lucas,
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but she has two plans to goskydiving, to travel outside of Brazil,
maybe to Maldives, because it's somethingLucas wants to do. She wants
to enjoy life to the fullest withher recent husband. Overcoming her worst face
terminal cancer patience. But even withthis darn disease, even knowing she will
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die within months, she says hermission is to heald and not to be
healed. She wants to be abeacon for others. So what does it
mean to be a beacon for others? Even with the terminal illness, she
doesn't want to stop smiling. Yes, she also cries because living under this
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condition isn't easy. One must actthe harsh reality and not run away from
it. That takes courage, andyou know courage is the word we hear
most in this podcast. She wantsto be an example of gratitude to others
for the miracle of being a life. Of course, of course, there
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are many things she won't do orfulfill. She would like to be a
mother, but apparently you know.But she said cancer was the best thing
she ever had in her life.Steve Jobs said in his speech that we
should live life as if we wereleaving our last day. That's what Isabella
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is doing. She turning her paininto something that makes her more mature,
human being, more true to yourself. She wants to live in today,
not in the past, not intomorrow, to leave the little things that
life offers us and make us grandius. No, it's not just talk,
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because it's not. It's so niceto wake up in early morning and see
the sunrise. Believe me it is. When she was a kid, Isabella
was a very anxious person, alwaysafraid of everything and everyone, always thinking
about tomorrow and ever about today.She says that most likely that anxiety caused
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her disease. If you could seethe sparkle in her eyes when she said
she wanted to be the cure forothers. Of course, she wants to
be courteous, but Isabelle affirms thatwe are here to heal, to serve.
I want to be recalled to youwhat Jesus said. You know that
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those who are considered rulers of thenation's lord it over them, and they're
great ones, exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among
you. But whoever would be greatamong you must be your servant, and
whoever will be first among you manytimes be slaves. Not always the plans
(20:15):
we drove. Bell is doing,not the plans that wants for you.
With her example of life being great, That's what happened to Isabelle. That's
what happened to me. No,I don't have cancer, but life also
threw me a curveball. Most likelyI have more than six months of life,
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although nothing is certain. If youlisten to the episode of my podcast,
episode number ten, you'll hear mystory. From when I was born
until today, I always aspired tohire dreams and goals. One of those
dreams was to turn my old companyinto a major multinational. I was born
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in July, and according to thedig oroscope, my sign is cancer.
There are people who value family alot in twenty three, I divorced from
my former partner, stopped living withmy daughters, and a month later I
closed my company. I lost thehouse where I lived, and I can't
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have anything in my name or Ilose it. I live in fear of
opening the mailbox because a seizure ofcourt letter could suddenly appear. I live
alone, and three weeks ago Ilost my father. However, I can
assure that I never felt as peacefulas I do now. To get here,
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had to be at the bottom ofthe black hole without light, cold,
damn alone with my thoughts. Itwas during those times that I began
to rebuild myself, not reclaim whatI lost because it's no longer worth it,
but to become more confident and thesecury human being. God put people
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on my path who help me inthis process, because there is no self
met man. I believe so,and yes, I will repeat myself.
I'm at peace with myself now.If you go to my personal Instagram and
Facebook page, you'll find many photosof the sunrise. Almost every day I
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go running, I always see thesun rising on those days, such a
beautiful spectacular that I try to capturewith my phone so that you can feel
a tiny part of what it's liketo witness this spectacular for free. You
can imagine the pleasure I have inwatching it from the front row. I
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have other pleasures in life, likethis podcast, or being with my daughters,
or watching them playing volleyball or basketball, or open your door off my
house at the end of the day, hearing the birds orchestra early in the
morning, talking to more experienced peoplein life. Our meeting is a belle
of lawso and their life story,turning pain into gratitude, turning pain into
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serving others, living life in thepresent. Yes, I wish my material
problem was solved. It will be. I can't guarantee you that it's just
a matter of time. I wouldlove for my daughters to live with me,
but they are fine, and ifthey are fine, I'm fine.
I would love to have a bigcompany. I will in the medium term
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feit future. I would love tobe able to pay all the people my
company owes. It will be donein a due time. I would love
for my father to be alive.Is not and he won't be back,
but I will continue to use hissmile and kindness towards the others I found
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peace within myself. I found thislove for life within myself, just like
Isabella Losso. This podcast is alsoa celebration of life that renews itself every
week so that all of us,including me, can be even happier.
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Justlike Isabella the Losso. It's throughtransformation and pain into joy that I plan
to live the rest of my life. There's no need to search for the
Holy Grail because it lives within me.
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