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Jason Schwartz sits with ADRIANNA GRACE on 10-26-2010. The “Chemo Cafe” is so named because Adrianna was diagnosed and is being treated for Ovarian Cancer. She has bravely allowed viewers into her world during this time of treatment, a very personal and delicate time. Adrianna presently is in process of recovering from a bout with pneumonia.
Summary & Transcript Below…
- Introduction and Setting
Adriana and Jason open the session at the Temple of Peace and Aquilani Spa in Haiku, a place Adriana frequents for healing treatments and companionship. They acknowledge the importance of prioritizing health and connect with their audience despite a slight delay due to Adriana contracting pneumonia. The tone is warm and personal, setting the stage for a candid update on Adriana’s health journey. - [00:46] Health Update and Clarification on Immune System
- [02:11] Cancer Status and Holistic Healing
Two clairvoyants have confirmed to Adriana that they sense no cancer in her energetic field, which reinforces her positive outlook. She is committed to continuing both conventional medical treatments and holistic therapies, highlighting a dual approach to healing “from the inside out and the outside in.” Adriana acknowledges feeling tired but maintains inner strength and optimism about her recovery. - [02:59] Daily Treatments and Self-Care Rituals
Adriana details her morning routine at the spa, involving a shower, makeup, infrared sauna, eye health treatments, and a seed machine. She also mentions preparing for the emotional impact of hair loss by ordering wigs and hats. This segment underscores the importance of self-care, ritual, and adapting to physical changes during cancer treatment. - [03:20] Spiritual Ceremony: Mundun under the Full Moon
Facing hair loss and emotional lows from pneumonia, Adriana performed a personal spiritual ceremony on a full moon night—cutting her hair as an act of prayer and surrender called “Mundun.” This Indian ritual symbolizes releasing ego and attachment to be closer to God. The act is deeply meaningful, representing acceptance and spiritual resilience amidst physical challenges. Adriana contemplates sharing this vulnerable moment publicly but decides to wait, valuing privacy and warmth. - [05:02] Fundraising Initiative Announcement
Jason introduces a new, private fundraising effort to support Adriana financially. He encourages viewers interested in helping to contact him directly via email with the subject “Adriana I want to help” and provide their phone numbers. The fundraising is designed to generate sustainable income to cover Adriana’s healing lifestyle expenses without public exposure, preserving the program’s integrity and privacy. This call to action reflects the practical realities of sustaining long-term treatment and healing. 
Adriana describes the physical toll of pneumonia, including persistent coughing that clears her lungs but leaves her exhausted. She reassures listeners that the coughing, while intense, is part of the healing process and that she feels she is beginning to turn a corner toward recovery. The candid description adds authenticity and helps the audience understand the ongoing challenges she faces.- [06:49] Financial Realities and Support Needs
Adriana explains that the purpose of fundraising is not to make a large profit but to support her healing lifestyle and avoid financial deficits. She currently relies on donations and a few regular contributors but needs additional resources to maintain her treatments and daily needs. The conversation stresses the importance of community support during prolonged health battles and the vulnerability involved in asking for help. 
Due to low energy and eye strain, Adriana spends much of her time resting, using the computer for light activities like emailing, and watching her favorite television shows. She notes that before her illness, she rarely watched TV, but now it provides comfort and distraction. Visits from friends for support and companionship are also a key part of her routine. This section illustrates the balance between rest, mental stimulation, and social connection during healing.
Adriana shares that she was able to skip chemotherapy for a week due to lack of energy, despite medical advice to continue for treatment continuity. She expresses a desire to see how she feels over the next week before resuming. Discussions with Jason and her support circle include exploring a lower-dose chemotherapy combined with alternative treatment programs in Mexico, contingent on financial resources. The cost is significant—approximately $5,000 per week—with a fundraising goal of $45,000 to $50,000 to cover the full course. This part highlights the complexities of managing treatment intensity, financial constraints, and alternative therapies.- [09:14] Support and Encouragement from Jason
Jason compliments Adriana’s strength and inner beauty despite her fatigue, emphasizing that her healing energy shines through. He acknowledges the community’s love and support, which Adriana gratefully receives. This exchange reinforces the emotional and spiritual dimensions of healing, underscoring how interpersonal connection sustains resilience. 
Adriana admits feeling sad about the time healing takes, expressing frustration that it feels like “wasted time.” Jason reframes this period as a necessary “vacation” to regain strength so she can return stronger than before. This candid emotional sharing makes the healing journey relatable and humanizes the challenges faced by those undergoing long-term treatment.- [10:14] Commitment to Community Support and Closing Remarks
Jason assures Adriana and viewers that the community will unite to provide the support she needs. Adriana expresses love and appreciation for the audience’s ongoing care. The session closes with warm farewells, a sense of hope, and mutual encouragement to continue forward. The ending reinforces the themes of connection, gratitude, and perseverance.
Overall Summary:
This session from the Chemo Cafe offers an intimate and comprehensive update on Adriana’s health and healing journey amidst pneumonia and chemotherapy. It combines medical realities with spiritual rituals, practical fundraising efforts, and emotional reflections. Adriana balances hope and vulnerability, emphasizing holistic healing and community support as vital components. Jason’s role as supportive partner and fundraiser coordinator frames a collaborative approach to sustaining Adriana’s treatments and lifestyle. The discussion candidly addresses misconceptions about chemotherapy and immune function while highlighting the challenges and resilience inherent in long-term cancer recovery. The session ultimately conveys a message of strength, faith, and unity in the face of ongoing health struggles.
00:00
hi everybody it’s the chemo cafe again adriana and jason here well we are here today is tuesday october 26th i think it is and um
00:16
We’re here at the Temple of Peace and the Aquilani Spa in Haiku. They’ve been really home away from home from you. You’ve been over here getting all kinds of treatments, haven’t you? I do. I come here as often as I can, both for the friendship and the companionship and all of the great healing treatments that are available. So I keep on needing to put stuff up on the website, letting people know all the things. But we know that your most important priority is
00:46
taking care of your health. And so these people out there, they’re all very understanding, but they wanted to see us. And so we’re a few days late. Well, the reason is because I came down with pneumonia. It’s the problem. So a couple weeks back ago when I did the last filming, or before that at the hospital, I think I was coming down with it. It’s been almost a month, you guys, of just being…
01:15
at home and congested and all this lung stuff and really keeping my blood count up still with the immune system, but it’s really kind of took a bite in my butt, man. Well, I guess what happens because your whole system is
01:31
They’re in there to try to kill something. They bring your immune system way down, so… But the
point is the levels are still the same, but somehow there was enough weakness to get in. The thing I feel very sensitive about somehow, so I’m just telling you, you know, by way of telling everybody,
01:49
Don’t think, oh yeah, the chemo is killing your immune system and that’s why you got sick. I just hate hearing that because, I mean, of course it’s true that the chemo is doing a bunch of things. And I don’t want to be in denial about that. But I don’t have a dead immune system. My chemo is not wrecking my whole body. Well, that’s great to know.
02:11
I just want to affirm that as well as, you know, since the blood levels are still up, it’s not a fact that I’m getting… Blood levels means that… My white blood cells, you know, the immune system, the cancer markers are all where they should be. Good. That’s good. Two of my favorite clairvoyants have let me know that I don’t have cancer anymore.
02:34
according to what they see in my energetic field. So I’m going to keep up with my medical treatments and all the holistic things. And I feel like it’s been successful from the inside out and the outside in at protecting and clearing me. And I’m tired, but I’m strong on the inside. And it’s looking good.
02:59
I had a little shower and makeup and infrared sauna and eye health and seed machine and all this this morning already. I did my hair and makeup today. Have you had all kinds of different scars you’ve been enjoying?
03:20
I had a couple of scarves and it’s time for me to start ordering my wigs and new hats and stuff because since the chemo did take most of my hair away and I cut it, on Saturday night I was feeling so down with the pneumonia and really needing a breakthrough and just really prayed and it was midnight on the full moon.
03:41
And my being just said, go outside under the moon and cut your hair off. Really expose yourself to God all the way and really make an offering, make a prayer. And I did that and I called it Mundun in the full moon.
04:04
And I recorded it, and so I’ll be getting that transcribed. But it was, you know, an evening, a couple hours of just prayer and ceremony. And the Mundun is an Indian ceremony for the shaving of the scalp, for the being to release ego and attachment and to be closer to God. So that’s what I did. And so I don’t know.
04:33
You know, I think about showing it, and then I’m not really shy, but my head feels so warm with this hat on. Well, I think we can leave it. What do you think? I think we should leave it right now. We can do it another week. Or at the end or something. It’s just I’m outside here, even though I’m kind of indoors, and I don’t want to get cold. Right. We don’t want to see that happen. So if I don’t do it this time, I’ll show you next time. While we’re in the prime of the show, I want to bring up to all our audience…
05:02
We’re starting a fundraising effort of something different and unique. Everyone out there, everyone out there that would like to help Adriana, I want you to send me an email. Send it to M-A-M-A, Mama, Maui, M-A-M-A-M-A-U-I at Mac.com. And in the top, in the subject, the first word, Adriana, I want to help. And put your phone number there.
05:30
in there as well and i will get back to you this program is a very exciting program it’s not going to be a major amount of money but it’s going to create a lot of money that will help adriana that’s what we want to do so i don’t want to discuss it here but i want you to know that we need and want your help and if ever the time was right it’s now something i said oh god i’m trying not to cough i’ve been coughing about
06:01
as much as I’ve ever coughed in my life. Is it only when you talk or it just comes up? No, no, it’s any time. You know, it’s deep in the lung and I’m, you know, without going into detail, stuff’s coming out and the lungs are getting cleared of what the pneumonia was, so.
06:20
It’s exhausting. It doesn’t hurt when I’m coughing, but it does make me feel really tired and worn down. So I feel like I’m turning a corner on it now. But it’s hard. And I love the fundraising efforts. And really, it’s not to make me a whole lot of money. It’s just to support my life and my lifestyle, healing lifestyle, until I can get over this thing. That’s all. And I’m still living by donations.
06:49
I have a couple of regular contributors, but I do need to support that just so I don’t run in a deficit. And that’s why I brought this out right now and why I want to be talking to all of you. We just don’t want to do it publicly because it’s a private program, and it’s the kind of thing that we don’t want it to spread on the web and cheapen what it is. It’s a wonderful thing. So what do you do during the week? Mostly…
07:15
You’re having all kinds of treatments. Do you get time? Do you read? How do you spend your time?
07:22
Well, you know, in this three, four weeks that I’ve had the pneumonia, it’s just an awful lot of rest. I don’t have a lot of energy to read. The print is too small, I think, and it just makes my eyes tired. So I can do stuff on the computer, email kind of stuff, and watching TV. I’ve got my favorite programs back, you know. It’s kind of silly.
07:47
When I was bored some years back ago, I got more into TV, and then when I moved back to Maui, my life was so good and interesting again. I didn’t have time to really follow up on television.
08:00
So now I’ve got my favorite little shows. So friends come over and they help me with whatever I need and visit for a while. And that’s it besides going to different doctor’s appointments. I was able to skip chemo this week because I just didn’t have the vital force to really do it. I want to see what this next week is like too because
08:26
I’d rather not do it, and the doctor wants me to continue for continuity. I know if I skip a week or two, it’s going to be okay. I’ve done a lot of research on this. I’ve spoken to a couple of your, I want to say your inner circle of support, and that conversation about a lower dose chemo coupled with something else, a program in Mexico, is that the one?
08:53
So we’re hoping that the resources here will give you that foundation to be able to do that. That’s the major push. Well, I’m welcome for that, but I need the resources to go all the way through it, not just get halfway through it. Absolutely. Because it’s about five grand a week, so that’s why we were shooting for that 45 grand, 50 grand number.
09:14
No. Well, this vehicle that we’re going to talk about, all of you who contact me, will find that this is going to help do it. So that’s good. I am really glad to see you. I know that you’re tired, but I must tell you, you put on a great front. You’re still the beautiful goddess, and I can feel you’re a beautiful goddess from the inside coming out. Thank you. You are still there. You are more than ever. You know, in these kinds of times,
09:44
That healing part of you, the one that reaches out to help everyone, everyone’s feeling. And they’re sending back a lot of love and support. Oh, gosh. Thank you. I know it’s my time to receive rather than give. But I just feel sad. It’s like such a waste of time. All this time I’m taking for my healing. I know it’s not a waste. And…
10:14
Think of it as a vacation, because when you get back into action, you’re going to be better than ever. Well, yeah. I sure needed some time off. I didn’t think I was going to get it this way, though. Oh, well. God. So we’re all going to come together and be that level of support that Adriana needs right now.
10:38
Anything else you want to tell these guys? I know you want to tell them you love them and appreciate their love and support. Yeah, I do. Good to see you again, looking in the computer screen, looking at me. I see you. That’s it. I think I’m tired. I’m ready to go. We’re going to let you go, and we will see you very soon. Aloha. Yea
