MRI, Final treatment, Mammogram, Surgery Aug 9

by | August 7, 2023

Hello! This will (most likely) be my last update prior to surgery and then I’ll be offline and healing for about two months. Wednesday, July 12 I had an MRI to see what has happened to the tumors. Thursday, July 20 was the final infusion with chemotherapy and...

Second Dose of the New, Revised Treatment

by | July 9, 2023

So far so good with the second dose of the new, revised treatment. It was administered on Thursday, June 29. I had a bit of nausea that was remedied by some anti nausea medicine. Over a week out, all hints of nausea are gone. This week I’ll have an MRI that will bring...

New, Revised Treatment

by | June 10, 2023

Thursday, June 8 The revised treatment is actually not liposomal doxorubicin, it’s a similar drug, still red in color, called epirubicin. And this time, it worked! In the clinical trials, when participants had a reaction to doxorubicin/adriamycin, they would be given...

The Twelfth and New Treatments

by | May 22, 2023

The twelfth treatment was calm and smooth. Monday, May 15 was new treatment day. It started with the pretreatment, which I think was just an anti nausea and a steroid. The regular immunotherapy was next and then the first of the new chemotherapy treatments,...
The Tenth and Eleventh Treatments

The Tenth and Eleventh Treatments

by | May 5, 2023

I have been lazy with my updates. Forgive me! Essentially, all is well. The only change is a temporary change in my vision, it’s a bit blurry close up now. The lightest readers, 1.25 lenses, fix it nicely. I’ll see an eye doctor at the end of June to make sure all is...