Last year, on Kboards, y'all gave me a ton of support when I was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal kidney cancer. I was told most of you moved over to this forum, and that I'd missed all the hubbub. Anyway...
I just wanted to give you an update. It's been a wild ride. I nearly died, literally, in June, because my cancer meds made my brain swell. I was in the hospital for a total of 13 days that month, three of which I don't remember because I had seizures. Things looked pretty dark then.
But, I started immunotherapy (the guys who developed it just won the nobel prize) and I am happy to announce that my tumor has shrunk nearly 50 percent and has not spread to other areas AND I feel like a normal, not sick person now. It doesn't change the long-term (terminal) ending of my cancer, but I have been given the gift of more time, and the bonus gift of feeling-good time.
Thank you for all of your support and encouragement.
I'm hoping to have a new book out in January, now that I feel good enough to finish it!