To The Best Team In The World,
A quick update for you: Tom G, Tommy Mulroy, and I met with the oncology team on Tuesday August 5th.
We did labs and they think the immunotherapy is causing liver inflammation. They’d like me to stay on prednisone and skip my infusion this month. I’ll continue on the targeted treatment, which is a daily pill. In the past that medication has caused pretty rough side effects but the steroids have really helped this time around.
In September I’ll do another infusion and scans a couple weeks later. They want to see all the tumors and lymph nodes get smaller. This round was more of a mixed bag – some shrinkage in some spots but some growth in others.
Overall I feel ok about this news. It would be nice to just be able to stay the course and not feel like I’m playing wack a mole with side effects, but it would be nicer to not have to deal with any of this bullshit at all. Here we are.
And I get to ride the prednisone wave, which is a wild drug. They upped my dose this week and some days it feels like I’ve been shot out of a cannon. Then when I do too much I crash out, which is also like getting shot out of a cannon but straight into the ground. While farting continuously all the way down.
There’s a surprising amount of farting involved in cancer treatment. Every day is a damn good day to be alive. I’m stretching my days out long and slow and I’m appreciating all of it. I don’t feel like a cancer warrior, I feel like a cancer Buddha.