I had been counting down the days until my first-ever yoga retreat with some of my best girls in Maui. I’d been looking around for a good one, then Anna posted that she was helping lead a retreat in Maui with Mel Afflerbach and I was in. You know me and signs. I follow them….
The Cancer Chapters
I’m in
Usually that phrase means I’m about to launch myself into another adventure. This time, it means that my CT scan says this complicated multi-component trial that I’m in seems to be working. Dr Thomas says he and the radiologist agree that most of the disease is stable and that some jaggedy edges in my lung…
Cycle 4, Day 15
Good grief, where have I been? I just checked, and I haven’t posted an update (besides the video cheater) in six weeks. That’s actually good news. With the exception of a few gnarly days at the beginning of my last Olaparib cycle, life has been, dare I say it, “normal.” I even flew to Orlando…
YES! (Say it With Me)
I know I’ve been slack in posting posts, but in this case anyway, no news is good news. I’ll have a more in-depth report in a few days when I go back to Bethesda.. But for now, I stopped in at the new offices of my very good friends at Growing Bolder, and we made…
Back on Track
Two units of somebody else’s blood and three shots of Neupogen did the trick. I do think it took some creative interpretation on my medical team’s part, but I did make my numbers yesterday and I did get my infusion and my take-out drugs. Besides the trial drug, Olaparib, I am taking home a different…
Good News (Except for that Airborne Wrench)
So as not to bury my lead, let me say what I already knew (on the inside): The first CT scan of my trial shows mostly disease stability with potentially some shrinkage. I figured the drugs were working because the heart and rib pain I’d had for weeks (months?) is mostly gone. A few days…