A cancer journey – our new normal is ahead of us!

So it is been over a month since my last post. Time for a little update. Last post Rick came off the clinical trial. The immunotherapy drugs worked great on his cancer cells … but went a little nuts on his pancreas. Thankfully, Rick went from very high levels of lipase (pancreas levels) to almost normal in just a few weeks. The wonders of steroids. Ya gotta love ’em. Of course, Rick also got some kind of a wicked cold that included a horrible cough. It hung around for weeks and is now almost history!

So our next step? Dr. Campbell pulled a cancer pill out of his oncologist tool box. Inlyta … take it twice a day. It does much the same thing as one of the immunotherapy infusion drugs. It cuts off the blood supply to cancer cells. One of the most unusual side effects of the drug … there are others … is that Rick’s hair is going to turn white. Well, he isn’t far off so that one is totally not a problem.

“Pretty soon I’ll look just like Col. Sanders,” Rick laughed.

If the Inlyta does its job, it looks like our visits to MDA will slow down. Praise Jesus on that one! So once we get rocking and rolling … major scan day tomorrow to set a benchmark on where he is … we will be visiting Dr. Campbell every six weeks and scans every three months.

Don’t tell anyone … but we could be getting our life back!