Life has changed dramatically since I last wrote in my blog just over a month ago. Even though the Coronavirus is getting most of the attention, cancer is still a looming reality for many of us, and that’s the focus of my blog.

In my last post I said I would be doing IV Mistletoe treatment. I had my first session on March 3rd and it didn’t go well. I had an allergic reaction and we only did about 20 minutes of what was supposed to be a 3-hour infusion. My eyes got itchy, my mouth got swollen, and next would have been my throat swelling shut. They stopped the Mistletoe, replaced it with a saline solution, and gave me Benadryl. The symptoms gradually went away. It was scary. No more IV Mistletoe for me.

I waited about 2 weeks for my body to recover, and did a subcutaneous injection of only 0.5 mg. Even at that small dose, my body reacted in the way it is supposed to. Slightly red, hot, and swollen at the site of the injection. I will keep doing the subcutaneous injections, which I can do at home. Even if I could handle the IV, I couldn’t do it now because the guidelines around the pandemic are keeping me home.

My March 2nd blood test kept the downward trend going. CA27.29 went down by 274. This means it has gone down by a total of 874 since I stopped taking the Aromatase Inhibitor and upped the ante on my Radical Remission strategies. Speaking of Radical Remission, the docuseries is happening right now. I have watched the first three episodes and am feeling so inspired. I highly recommend watching them. (You can sign up here to watch for free, through March 26th.)

My baseline PET/CT scan used the word “Stable” describing my cancer. Stable is good, but I think it’s even better than that. The size and uptake value of the tumors in the lining of my left lung were compared with the previous scan from 4 months earlier, and several of them were smaller. I think “stable” means they aren’t growing. It’s hard for a pathologist to believe they would actually shrink when I’m not doing any “treatment” according to his definition of that word. We’re still a long way from NED, but I’m celebrating the numbers continuing to go in a downward direction.