A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  • Navigating the rocks

    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

    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

    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

    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...
  • Navigating the doldrums

    The majority of my blog entries have been about the procedures and treatments I have been having. As well as giving me an outlet to recap the history of this, I always hope they will help others facing similar things understand what is involved in so...