This is a bit of a catch up blog as I hadn't posted since the end of 2019, and holding a lot of info in my profile section is a bit unworkable, so here goes.
I finished my last entry hoping that I would be a complete responder again, my spoiler alert is that I haven't stopped because I'm clear but because pembro isn't being effective any more but I had 57 doses so that is good going, and I had a few breaks along the…
Well biopsy day arrived and the doctor explained he would be taking several samples and one for the trial. Last March I signed up to the mel resist trial when my lymph node increased in size last March and I’d been on Pembrolizumab for 9 months, so they could take my node to look at what was different about it that it wasn’t reacting. As this was a needle biopsy they were I assume taking extra fluid out of the node. The…
I’ve been meaning to do an update for a few weeks now while it was still November. My scan was set for 6/11 and in October I felt a lump come up in my groin, I was sure it was a lymph node near to the one that was removed in my groin in March. I pointed it out a week later at my oncology appointment and as my scan was 2 weeks later and nodes can go up and down I just went with the flow of waiting for the scan. I…
Well there’s nothing quite like a funeral and your own scan results to make you look at yourself and what you are going to do going forward.
I said in my last blog I had no sweeping statement about the future and I suppose I still don’t. My cousins funeral was in May and it was very touching the church was packed and the crematorium was overflowing with people and the scenery in Scotland was beautiful. I made the…
Well there you have it in the title No measurable disease, let’s hope this is the start of remaining clear for a long time.
To recap this last cancer episode, in April 2018 a scan showed an enlarged lymph node so it was suggested by an oncologist I had never seen before that I should have surgery to take it out. However logical it may seem to anyone reading this, it was not logical to me as back in July 2015 when…
