With my 800mg dose today, I’m five days into my first month of oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Votrient. Thursday afternoon, I was driving down the road near the John B. Amos Cancer Center and because I just didn’t feel right, I whipped in to see if I could get someone to check my blood pressure. [...] [...]
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With the agony of itching a mere distant memory (I lied, despite all the terrific home remedies — and I diligently tried them all — the itching is not only a distant memory, but is so close I can still scratch it!) we’re steeling up to be the “B” side of a human pin cushion [...] [...] I have spent untold hours over the past 3.5 years in the infusion suite at the John B. Amos Cancer Center. While all the rest of the crowd has had destruction cloaked in sheep’s clothing dripping into their veins, I was always the pussy over in the corner with water coming down my drip line. [...] [...] At the moment that Dr. Andrew Pippas, morphed from being my friend to becoming my medical oncologist, I already knew several things about him. I first met him in his cramped little office across the street from Doctors Hospital, well in advance of the construction of the John B. Amos Cancer Center. I was there [...] [...] Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…. I got a call from a physician’s assistant in Dr. Lance Pagliaro’s office today. She is part of the team that is responsible for my care at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She, along with Dr. Pagliaro and Dr. Christopher Wood as [...] [...] What I do know: • I don’t have tumors in my brain. • I don’t have tumors in my lungs. • I don’t have tumors in my chest, abdomen or pelvis. • I love my wife. What I don’t know: • I don’t know the outcome of my adrenal tumor biopsy. • I don’t know [...] [...] Thanks to good friend, David Fletcher, I just received 158 pages that chronicle my life with cancer. Jill and I, after consulting with our medical oncologist, Dr. Andrew Pippas, have decided to make the long trek out to Houston, Tex. for a consultation with their genitourinary team. I hope to be able to meet with [...] [...] On the right is an excerpt from a speech Dr. Chris Wood delivered at a Kidney Cancer Association Patient Conference. This is a text excerpt from the last few moments of his speech that specifically deals with my situation, a recurrence in the renal fossa. I’m very encouraged by what I read here and by [...] [...] I’m in the infusion suite at the John B. Amos Cancer Center. Sirius Deep Tracks channel coming through my headphones, needle in my arm pumping fluids in advance of tomorrow’s MRI with contrast. I’m in my favorite spot in the southeastern corner of the room. I guess it is my writing spot, because when I’m [...] [...] |
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