Hi Everyone-
My first time logged onto CT for a while - things have been kind of crazy... Physically I am dealing with some increase medical issues and I have been scrambling to readjust plans - the liver issue is serious...
Full story at the link at the bottom of this post, excerpts from a blog I wrote a few days ago below:
Well… a blog post I certainly don’t want to write and I did not plan on writing… My oncolytic virus clinical trial plans were postponed at the last second.
What? How?? Why???
My disease has decided to flip a genetic switch. Tumors are allowed to do that, they are genetically unstable after all… A switch has been flipped to a “more aggressive phenotype“. What does that mean in English? It means that when I saw my CT-scan of my previously (for almost 5 years) clean liver – my jaw dropped. And not in a good way. My liver was covered with spots – too many too count. Some of them quite large.
I love the concept of the my planned oncolytic immunotherapy trial! I still do. But in this instance it has one major flaw. It does not act fast. Best case scenario, it takes a while to ramp up the immune system. Looking at my liver, in a split second, I made my decision. Those tumors needs to shrink now, as soon as possible, as fast as possible. There is only one type of treatment that does that.
Chemo. ASAP. Today.
This was definitely a big shock. I hope to try the oncolytic virus trial in the future but we shall see if that is offered to me… But this is why I have developed layers upon layers upon layers of plans over the past 2 years. Cancer is wily foe. It surprises you when you least expect it. To combat that kind of foe, you need to have your own surprises lined up. And this is mine. My goal has not changed, just some facts on the ground. My goal is to beat my cancer, using science and my brain as my weapons, by any means necessary. Today was I disappointed? Yes. A bit scared? Yes. Deterred? Never. This is why you should always have plenty of planes on your taxiway – you never know when one might be needed.
I mean this more today than perhaps ever before. To Life!
https://adventuresinlivingterminallyopt ... eak-glass/
-DK37