On March 25th I had my rescans to see how my tumors were responding to treatment thus far. Last Wednesday, my oncologist called me to tell me that although they are much, much smaller they are still there. While this is great news that my tumors are responding to treatment and I still had three… Read more: This last week…

Treatment 13 a done! My updates this week are a little later because treatment is across two days. Yesterday I started two new chemo drugs and unfortunately they have me down. I went to sleep Thursday at 6:30pm and woke up at 4am. I have steroids I have to take on day 2 and 3… Read more: This week….

Since I am finishing phase one this week I thought I would empty out my chemo bag and share what I bring that is useful during infusions. I pack my blanket, cryotherapy ice packs, sudoku, coloring book, pencils and a wide variety of candy to suck on. So far, I only have a bad taste… Read more: What’s in my chemo bag…

Round Eleven! This week was routine, my labs were normal(ish) for me this week so we didn’t even have the question of if we wouldn’t have treatment this week or not. I also haven’t had any new symptoms and I can attribute that to the new medications I started about three weeks ago. I have… Read more: Round Eleven!

Let’s see where to begin.. here’s a little background on my liver enzymes. When running my labs there are three levels they review my bilirubin, ALT and AST. My bilirubin level last week was 0.8 and you want that to be around 0.3-1.2. My ALT was 275 and you want that between 0-34. My AST… Read more: Treatment 10