A Lil Lytnin' Strikes Lung Cancer

It’s about time I update this little blog. I’m doing decently, much better than I was when I wrote the last post. The increase in steroids...

Things are not great in CancerLand. My rising tumor markers and MRI changes have confirmed that the spot in my cerebellum has grown back and...

“In five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure a year in a life?” - RENT I made it another year with met...

Clearly this cancer likes to keep me on my toes. You may recall that I finally got some good news on my April brain scan, the first good n...

The MRI was definitively stable, even slightly improved. Most of the spots have either gotten a little bit smaller (by about 1 mm - but I’ll...

These past two months of treatment on my fancy new clinical trial drug have passed fairly uneventfully. Side effects here and there, plus ma...

And humbled. And stunned. And grateful. And relieved. I spent a big chunk of February scrambling to find a way to fund the wonderfully ...

I successfully passed all the tests and got accepted into the study! There is a weird sweet spot you have to hit in order to qualify for a c...

We returned from our marvelous vacation last night, the first time the five of us have taken a vacation together (please, please don’t say...

When I was first diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer in 2013, the situation was dire. Cancer has spread extensively throughout my body. Th...

I woke up last Wednesday to a phone call from my oncologist confirming that the MRI I had just had showed that, while it was slight, my brai...

Jason and I got married in a perfect, tiny ceremony on the beach in San Clemente, California, then honeymooned in nearby San Diego. On each ...

I am now 9 weeks post brain surgery on my cerebellum. And 1.5 weeks post targeted radiation to my cerebellum. And 4 weeks post-entry into ...

I have completed treatment 2 of 5 for my targeted brain radiation. You may recall that, since there WAS living tumor in the section they rem...

The good news is that my brain surgery recovery is coming along really well. I’ve even been approved to start driving again, so Jason is tak...

I made it home Saturday afternoon and am now slowly rebuilding my strength surrounded by my beloved family. The surgery went well and...

I saw my surgeon on Monday and all systems are go for brain surgery on Thursday, October 4. I’m oscillating between being incredibly nervo...

For those of you dear readers who have been following my ongoing health drama, you may recall that in December 2017, a new little brain met...

I got the results from my every-8-week scans for the clinical trial, and the overall reaction is ... meh. Things are not getting better, b...

So here we are. Five years. When I was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer, the statistics said that my chances of living to see this day ...