It's so easy to get wrapped up in this and that tip of the lung or pain the pelvis and forget that there's at least theoretically a point to all these logistics and trips to New York: Getting a drug that will help me. In part because we just had a CT scan two weeks ago, in part because I'm feeling tired, I hadn't focused on the results of today's scan.
They were pretty good!
My disease is stable, and my nastiest tumor actually shrank a fair bit. Another significant one didn't show any change. I'm not sure if big nasty's decline crossed the 20 percent threshold or not -- no formal report yet -- but it's been a long time for me since anything shrunk even modestly.
And, obviously, my lungs look a lot better. How'd that happen?
Ironically, though, today's "stable" (but improving slightly) disease, unlike six weeks ago's "stable" (but progressing slightly) disease, earns me a one-way trip into randomization. We will receive either the drug or placebo today, and I will resume taking some kind of medicine tonight.
The protocol I have praised highly here in the past is now biting me in the ass.
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Very Very excellent news!! I'm so so happy for you. I will find out if I'm randomized or out next Wed. I am a tad nervous.
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