Recent Oncologist Visit

My appointment with the Oncologist was on Thursday. He checked my feet and found the pain sites, one on each foot. We talked about my options. I'm on the lowest dosage of the mystery drug so lowering that once more is not an option. I asked if I could keep talking the drug since I am still able to walk. The reason is that I have had such promising results in shrinking and I didn't want to stop that positive action. He agreed that was a good idea. I had some lab work done in the office and received another batch of pills enough for 3 weeks.

I've used a lot of different creams on my feet: a prescription cream called UREA CREAM and got no results. Then I tried Udderly Smooth Cream which kept my feet moist but not the results I wanted. Finally I tried Aquaphor. I started using it a couple of days before my Oncologist appointment and the morning after my appointment the pain site on my right foot stopped hurting. I'm hoping that eventually the other foot will follow.

My next CT Scan is scheduled on November 16, two days before my next appointment with the Oncologist. We'll see if the mystery drug is still shrinking the tumors.

I golfed in the 18 Hole League, my first time since early May. It's cart path only so I was exhausted from all the walking. I signed up for the opening league day Tuesday and hope to find a better way to honor the cart path only and at the same time without walking my way to exhaustion.

To build up my stamina and strength I've been exercising 6 or 7 days a week. I'm loving the Spinning (Cycling) classes and try to get 3 sessions in a week at Mountainside Fitness. Two of the days are Weight Training here at Corte Bella Fitness. Total Body Class I do once or twice a week at Mountainside. Joining the gym in Peoria has enabled me to take a class mornings, afternoons or evenings depending if I have plans during the day. Another bonus is that two of my Fitness Buddies became members of Mountainside months before I joined. We sometimes car pool.

Happy Halloween to you all.

Latest Results

Even though I had been off the mystery drug for 11 days in September and 12 days in October the CT results were good. This time there was another 10% shrinkage in most of the tumors and adding that to the shrinkage from the August Scan results makes it 30%. Also I had been on a lower dose of the drug since mid September.

The first time they lowered my dose of the drug it went to 60 mg. When the feet were better this time they lowered the dose to 39 mg. Hopefully this is the dose that will shrink my tumors but not cause the feet to get those painful "blisters".

My feet are still healing but there's no pain involved. I've been able to return to all my activities like exercise classes, golf and shopping.

I'm off now to spend some time with my grandson.