I’m in my Room With a View at the NIH. I’m eating peanut M and M’s and watching “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer,” with 10 minutes of commercials, even though I own the DVD. I have, so far, come through the first component of my new CRLX101 trial unscathed. I feel positively unscathed!V As promised, it’s…
The Cancer Chapters
Wherever Flux is, I am deep in it.
Where was I? I have sat down to write an update a half dozen times in the last few weeks, but I would have had to update the update a half dozen times, sometimes daily. I’m in the washout period between trials and actually feel a little better every day. It’s been more than two…
#Neverthelessshepersisted
Did you know that Diet Coke is even fizzier when it comes back up? At least if it makes its return in 30 seconds. That is now a proven fact. I was expecting no drama from my biopsy on Monday, but there was a bit, and it was self-admittedly self-inflicted. I don’t mind anesthesia; I…
There’s a Game of Jenga at the Fork
It’s true. Strategerizing my way forward now is starting to feel like Cancer Care Jenga. Jenga is the game where you build a tower of wooden blocks, then, with thoughtful consideration (or not), pull the blocks out one at a time and restack them on top until the whole thing comes tumbling down. One decision…
Oh Look, Another Fork in the Road**
I’ve stared at this blank page (before I finally started writing on it) for three days now. I always (until tonight) write my title first, then meander through the body of my post, sprinkling pictures along the way, kind of like Blogpost Tinkerbell. But I am roadblocked at a title, because I can’t decide how…
The In-Between
Where have I been, you ask? It’s been seven weeks since my last update, right after Pelotonia, which was right after I found out that “stable” sometimes doesn’t mean “stable.” You may remember that my clinical trial closed, meaning that now I only return to Georgetown every 3 months and don’t have to have labs…