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Update to the cancer thread I never made

my latest in the battle is PSA @.03

all I got other than great news for you!
 
CLRracer said:
Awesome news! As an AML survivor I'm always glad to hear about medical breakthroughs for cancer. Hopefully your trial will help a lot of people!

Duane
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Glad to hear all that! :smokin: What kind of treatment plan did you get to pull that off? Genuinely curious because my trial stuff included infusions that were originally for a certain type of lung cancer. :beer:to you!
 
Chzbrgr said:
Glad to hear all that! :smokin: What kind of treatment plan did you get to pull that off? Genuinely curious because my trial stuff included infusions that were originally for a certain type of lung cancer. :beer:to you!
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Thanks! I was diagnosed in May of '19, my first chemo was 24/7 for a week, then chemo once a month for 3 days from June to Sept. In between chemo I was at the hospital 3x a week for blood and platelet transfusions. Oct 23rd I had my last chemo which completely wiped out my immune system and then had my bone marrow transplant. I spent 100 days in the hospital and an adult version of Ronald McDonald house. With no immune system I couldn't be more than 1hr from the hospital. Then I had to have all my childhood immunizations again. This Oct will be 5 years cancer free.

Duane
 
CLRracer said:
Thanks! I was diagnosed in May of '19, my first chemo was 24/7 for a week, then chemo once a month for 3 days from June to Sept. In between chemo I was at the hospital 3x a week for blood and platelet transfusions. Oct 23rd I had my last chemo which completely wiped out my immune system and then had my bone marrow transplant. I spent 100 days in the hospital and an adult version of Ronald McDonald house. With no immune system I couldn't be more than 1hr from the hospital. Then I had to have all my childhood immunizations again. This Oct will be 5 years cancer free.

Duane
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Damn. That was a brutal course. Through all the covid shit too. Hat's off to you. That had to have you messed up bad. Glad you put up the fight and came out the other side. Cheers to you. After all that, not knowing if it's going to work and hearing the doc say it's gone!!!! Now I know that feeling and can't even describe it to people. Glad you won.
 
Chzbrgr said:
Damn. That was a brutal course. Through all the covid shit too. Hat's off to you. That had to have you messed up bad. Glad you put up the fight and came out the other side. Cheers to you. After all that, not knowing if it's going to work and hearing the doc say it's gone!!!! Now I know that feeling and can't even describe it to people. Glad you won.
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Thankfully covid didn't really hit hard until I was back home, but we knew several other families that were going through treatment while it was a big deal, and they said it was brutal. But I will say from the very beginning the docs said "this is a treatable, curable cancer" so that was my mindset the whole time. Honestly, yours being CLL would have scared me more because of the no cure aspect, even though people can manage it well for a long time. I can't imagine being in your shoes. I'm glad that you won, and I'm glad and thankful that you went through a trail so the lessons learned can be applied to other patients so hopefully they can win too.

Duane
 
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