Pre-Holiday

I had my 9th treatment on Friday. Once again, the doctor walked in and said, "I know I say this every time, but man...you still have a lot of hair!"

My tumor continues to shrink--it's at a barely-noticeable range via palpitation. I'm clearly responding quite well to the chemo and the investigative drug. We tried to wean me off of the steroids that I've been given pre-chemo over the last 2 months with disastrous results last week. I felt awful and slept for most of 2 days. The reason behind the wean was because I was starting to gain some weight back. I decided that weight gain was worth the ability to function. So, I'm back to steroids again.

We have officially set up the next round of chemo. I finish this round on January 10th and immediately go into the 2nd round, January 17th. This round is every other Friday for about 2-4 hours (as opposed to 6 hours currently). It also comes with an extra visit to the clinic for a special, White Blood Cell (WBC) count booster shot on Saturdays. This is a $3-10k shot, per shot. Insane! This round is slatted to go through February, unless I have to take some weeks off due to low WBCs. Sometime after that (March-April?), I'll be looking at some kind of surgery.

So, this is what we're looking at, moving into the holidays: I'm continuing to rock-star this cancer thing and we're getting ready to transition to the next round.

I'll try to update again soon.

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