It’s two and a half weeks since I became aware I was having a serious adverse immune event to my kidneys related to my immunotherapy, a PD-1 inhibitor. I continue to try to do everything I can to manage myself to whatever is my best possible ou...
It’s helping me to write this all down whilst it’s still quite fresh. I am discharged from hospital on the Friday evening. I am set up with 3 appointments in the acute oncology service - Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning, for IV steroids, ...
As a brief recap, I am currently experiencing the (very low likelihood) downside risks of being treated with a PD-1 inhibitor. Essentially my immune system trying to wreck my previously healthy kidneys. As an aside, as I write this, the immediate cri...
As a companion to my blog entry on what happened to me clinically, this is the story of how it unfolded as a hospital experience. This bit focuses on night 1 in A&E.
At my hospital, oncology patients have a dedicated hotline, and there is an acut...
As a quick recap, I have PD-L1 positive, triple negative breast cancer, metastasised to my liver. I have been being treated with an immunotherapy drug called Pembrolizumab. In layman’s terms, our immune systems have an ability to deal with cell...
