Terry started on a new therapy today. She will now be taking a product called Velcade which causes the cancer cells to stop dividing and hopefully causes the cancer cells to die. Cancer cells appear to be more sensitive to these effects than normal cells. (Let's hope that is the case with Terry).
She will be on this course of therapy for 3-4 regimens before another bone marrow biopsy is done. Each course of therapy is 21 days-so it will be it will probably be sometime in November before any results are in.
She had been on a drug called Revlimid for the past 7 months. This drug is a derivative of thalidomide. For those old enough to remember thalidomide is the drug associated with "flipper babies" due to birth abnormalities. It was used in the '60s for pre-partum nausea prevention. (I am recalling the information about thalidomide from my memory recesses-so I might be off a little).
There are a whole host of things that can be tried. Unfortunately they all take months before evaluation.
Terry is doing fine both physically and emotionally. She gets more and more energy each day and has a very positive attitude. I know the attitude is helped a lot by having so many good friends with tons of prayers and well wishes.
Her physical strength is probably due to the fact that we continue to chase each other around the house. (Some things never change).
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Who is winning the race around the house?
Keep up the positive attitude and joyful spirit (& of course, the racing!!!) from Debbie & Les
Who cares who is winning, as long as they are still racing? Whee...
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