We didn’t have to punt after all. On CBC 4 (out of an available 5), my white blood cells cooperated. I flew out to Bethesda about a week and and a half ago to meet with Dr Rajan and to MOVE ON with this trial. The visit itself was pretty anticlimactic, after the nearly 6-week…
Livestrong
One CBC Closer to a Punt
Since I last posted, I have failed two more blood tests.. Well, I didn’t fail, more specifically, my white blood cells/Neutrophils failed to show up. I needed an Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) of 1200 to start the second Sutent cycle. It was 900 ten days ago, dropped to 800 on Monday and came in at…
…The Ugly and The Bad
Even as I wrote it, I knew I was asking for it, and as usual, the universe did not disappoint.
Checking In
I am now 10 days in to the NCI Sutent trial, and I feel…. mostly fine.
A Series of Miracles (or Reasonable Facsimiles)
My last week has been insane and terrible and great and perfect. The headline is, I’m in the Sutent trial at the National Cancer Institute. My journey to get there, of course, has been circuitous and unpredictable and affected by the most amazing strokes of good karma. Backtrack to last week. I knew my white…
Where are the Whites?
I don’t know what you thought when you read the title to this post. After I wrote it and looked at it, I could see how it could be misinterpreted.