November 2009 Update

As you know I have been MIA from the computer lately and I haven’t updated at all. No videos or posts. I’m sorry about that, but I have been updating a lot of pictures. Especially from my recent trip to Portland, OR.  Portland was awesome and I hope to post some information of my trip and other things that I have been doing these last few months.

So, during the summer I was taking a clinical trial oral chemotherapy.  After taking that chemo everyday for 6 weeks the Dr.’s saw that the tumors were still growing. Although they did have another trial open for me. They called me the day before I left for Portland and told me to come in and sign the paper work to start another clinical trial.

The trial is 2 chemotherapies. The 1st one is an iv chemotherapy that is an insulin growth factor. The 2nd chemotherapy is just like the oral chemo that I took during the summer. I have been looking for an insulin growth factor since May of 2008. It has been hard to find this chemotherapy because of the limited amount of people who can been on this trial. Finally, I’m on the insulin growth factor chemo. Dr. Rushing from Indiana University has been talking about this chemo for a long time. I’m sure he is just as glad that I’m on this too.

Chemotherapy schedule: IV chemo every 2 weeks at the University of Chicago. Oral chemotherapy taken twice daily.

I’m not really sure how long I will be on this, but I’m just happy that the University of Chicago has given me this opportunity. They have been extremely helpful on getting me the treatment that I need on a timely basis.

Just one step closer to killing these tumors!

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