Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Spider Spears and the Allure of Alex World

Brain cancer is...

 ...being drawn in by the allure of Alex world.

Today Darrell and Alex invented a duster that could hit the ceiling spaces where the spider webs gather.  Alex re-envisioned the duster as a spider spear.  Of course! Then he drew his father into the magical, mystical Alex World of spider spears.

Cancer Eradication Updates 

  • This week is chemo week.  Days 1 and 2 went fine for Darrell.  What a champ!  After today, he has just two days left before the typical three-week break. 
  • Darrell is taking 3 instead of 4 mg of steroids daily this week, his first week of "taper."  It's going well.  No side effects.
  • Yesterday Darrell's Optune system was alarming frequently.  None of the usual troubleshooting efforts did the trick.  We changed his arrays a couple days early, and the alarming stopped.  We discovered, thus, that the arrays can be bad.  Problem solved.
  • Finally the radiologist's report analyzing last week's MRI scans was posted. The radiologist concurred--as directly as any Lord of Hedge can possibly concur--that there are no changes from last month.  Yussss! (MRI fist pump.)
Happy Hump Day, Team D!

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