There’s a lot I haven’t been telling you, but I’ll tell you (most) everything now. Reveal 1: My larger tumors started swiftly regrowing even though the smaller ones kept shrinking. We saw this first on a CT scan in February and it was dramatically confirmed in a PT/CT in April…

Sat April 9th, 2016 Emergency room MD: “You’re cancelling your Hawaii trip. Scans show a number of lumps on your organs. We’re going to check you into the hospital immediately. Looks like Lymphoma. [I later figured out this was code for “we sure hope it’s lymphoma, because that's much more treatable than metastatic carcinoma.”]…

I wanted to speak more about a life trap I fell into and many others do too. The trap is to think that you have a good chance of living into your eighties. When I turned 40, I remember thinking, “well at least I have a whole second half of…

Last week I received amazing news. My 2nd CT scan since starting on the immunological drug Nivolumab (Opdivo) showed continued shrinking of…

I met today with my Symtpoms Management Nurse Practicioner. She’s been amazingly thoughtful and thorough even though the very first time we met I gave her a bunch of “I’m so fucking sick, you think you can help me?” attitude. But if course she did. Dramatically, so. So I always…

This post is going to be a mess … suitably as I’m in a bit of a mess. I’m finding living with cancer, versus fighting it, is trickier than I thought. I thought that since I recovered so quickly from a death spiral to being up and about that I’d…

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My life is in a state of mental whiplash and I barely even realized it. In barely 4 months I’ve gone from being in a death spiral to riding my bike to see friends. I went from planning out my funeral to thinking about when I would start working again…

I had a CT scan today which confirmed what I was feeling, which is that my immunological treatment(Nevolumab/Opdivo), is working on my tumors. …