I had my follow up visit at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Clinic in Seattle for the clinical trial I am for the ABT-199, for the Leukemia I am batteling.
The doc's
PA actually said I am a boring patient!
I guess boring is good. As numbers
continue to be stable and have gotten a smidgen better.
So now its time
to triple the dosage I am on from 50 mg a day to 150 mg a day. They are
confident that this will trigger a little better response.
Then next
week the plan is to bump it right up to 1,200 mg a day. Again, I will the only
person to get this big of a dosage to date, so it might get
interesting!
Also got a little good news that they will now allow me to
go to a the local clinic 15 minutes from my home for blood work/labs tomorrow
and Wednesday instead of having to make the 2 to 3 hour round trip trek to
downtown Seattle in rush hour traffic unless I need to see my medical staff, and
the local clinic will fax results and Fed EX test sample to them from there.
Gonna also save me a little sanity on the freeway during the local storms we
have been getting lately!
So now its time to see how this lab rat does on
bigger doses of this experimental drug. The trial coordinators, PA, and I were
joking that I might show up next week with a 3rd arm, or be able to pick up
radio signals from mars! LOL!
Never Ever Give Up!
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