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  • Back on the rocks

    Coddfish
    My immunotherapy (Pembrolizumab) related adverse reaction is the gift that keeps on giving. I have previously mentioned I was becoming short of breath upon exertion. Over the last week, the issue has worsened, to the point where I contacted the acute...

  • Navigating the rocks

    Coddfish
    It’s been a bit of an up and down journey over the last couple of weeks.  Kidney function is slowly and steadily improving and there’s now an expectation it will return to something very close to my previous baseline. Quite how I man...

  • First sighting of dry land

    Coddfish
    Six weeks into my immunotherapy related adverse event, I can see a path to dry land.  Kidney function is gradually improving. My creatinine is down to less than 1.5 x my baseline and the medical team still think I have further recovery potential...

  • First puff of the trade winds

    Coddfish
    Today is the first day I have had good news for quite some time.  First, and to my surprise, the MRI report from last Thursday evening is back in, and it shows all my liver mets have reduced, with no new lesions formed anywhere in the liver. Sec...

  • Still waiting for a trade wind to arrive

    Coddfish
    I am, as my consultant said last week, ‘stuck’. The creatinine level is stubbornly stable at around 1.75 x my previous baseline. Whilst there might be some further small improvement, it looks like that may be my permanent new normal. I am...
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