That combination of letters and numbers is the code for the clinical trial that I am finally in, after 4 or 5 tries. I shouldn’t actually be in it; my liver enzymes are still about three times what they should be, but Dr Giaccone got the ok from the drug company in Italy. They made…
Pelotonia
Hey Sugar, Sugar
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…
First Step’s a Doozy!
Would you rather have the ability to be invisible or to fly? I always pick fly (just like I always pick being a rock star over a movie star. And Patrick always picks talking with animals over anything.). So when the opportunity to fly (more specifically jump) with the US Army Golden Knights came, I was…
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,…
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…