It’s funny (odd, not haha) that as much as I know about many kinds of medical, health, and wellness issues, I am for all intents and purposes, fairly ignorant of some of the most common ailments. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. The learning curve on this Diabetes has been Alpe d’Huez…
The Cancer Chapters
Saturday Night in the ICU ROCKS (not really)
It’s been a good news, bad news 24 hours. I went to Huntsman Cancer Institute to get my metabolic panel done again, still trying to get in to the CDK trial at Georgetown. Well, my liver enzymes are finally low enough for me to get in. But Terry called to alert me that my blood…
Down The Rabbit Hole or What the??????
I checked to see if the moon was full (it’s not), Mercury was in retrograde (it’s not), or a menehune/leprechaun has been following me around making mischief (still a possibility). I consider my life pretty charmed, despite THREE CANCER DIAGNOSES, but my last two visits to Maryland have been more challenging than charming. Let’s review,…
Where’s the “Easy” Button?
The good news is I will get my sense of taste back and lose the worst case of cotton mouth I have ever had. Which brings me to the bad news. I had such high hopes for the immunotherapy and for PD-1. It seemed to work well against so many kinds of cancers. Except mine,…
Team Lance and Friends
Ride for the Roses Number 15 is in the books. Overall, it’s a fantastic book, as usual, but with a major plot change, and, for the first time ever, an ending. This has always been my favorite weekend of the year: Reconnecting with special people who are passionate about fighting cancer and about living…
Meh-dium
Not “Brilliant.” But at least I didn’t think, “well, that was unexpected.” My first CT scan on the PD-1 trial was…. medium. Hopefully. The biggest tumor looks slightly bigger (2.2 cm from 1.9 six weeks ago), as do a few others. But there are still others that are unchanged. As in not bigger. As in…