Ho hum. Annuder HHH update,
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I got the final word just this afternoon.
My Chemotherapy starts around noon on Monday.
And I have been accepted into the trial study of the immunosuppressant inoculations. There was a fifty fifty chance I would actually receive the injections, and the other fifty percent, that I would just be in the other half, being monitored periodically the rest of my life.
Well, I made it into the first group, and those inoculations also begin on Monday. I volunteered because I want to help them try to find a way to prevent recurrence of pancreatic cancer. This is not meant as a preventive treatment.
I can't imagine anyone wanting to go through it just in case it might prevent them from getting it. The trial consists of 6 injections each time, 2 each in one leg and both arms, or both legs and one arm, rotating each time. Injections are every week for 3 weeks and a week off as a cycle, and 6 cycles over 23 weeks.
That works out to 6 x3 x 6, or 108 injections, on top of the chemotherapy and anything else, such as additional blood tests..
If they are not too painful that isn't too bad, as I have donated platelets at the American Red Cross for many years, and that took 2 sticks each time, and 20-24 times a year. Not to mention blood tests, flu shorts, etc,and several times a day sticking my finger to check my blood sugar.
The monitoring I mentioned will include CT scans every couple of months, then every six months, and finally, one a year for the rest of my life, so thechances of any thing new down there not being caught, should be pretty slim.
Holly, putting a :) forward.