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 Cancer Chapters
…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.
My Friend, Stu
In my brain, I knew Stu’s last relapse was a bad one. But it was Stu, so my heart figured it might be a little longer than usual, but I’d see him confronting his haters on Twitter (I asked why he even bothered answering them, but it was just another sport to him, I think) and looking better than he felt on tv