I’m Henry the eighth I am,
Henry the eighth I am….

After my “week off” of meds we start up cycle two today. First it isn’t really a week off of the meds. I still was taking the steroid which they were tapering out and the shot. Last week wasn’t great overall apparently muscle pain is a side effect of coming off the steroids too quickly and my back revert back to spasms. Called the Doc he put me back on the Steroids and feeling much better. We now have a slower taper schedule.

Overall feelings on last week

So this morning bright and early Liz and I went in to get our blueberry muffins (warmed of course). They put the IV in my fretting hand which I am not a big fan of.

I did get to talk to the Oncologist today and while he said he isn’t aware of any kill counter in development they can tell by my blood work that we are in fact killing cancer. He explained about light betta proteins and some other medical stuff I didn’t follow. Point being they are going down and all my platelets and red blood cells are staying in the normal range so all good there. So yeah got those bastards on the run. After three to four treatments we do a biopsy to see if they are in full retreat.

Today I had the both the bone transfusion and the chemo shot so we will see if that hits me later. Friday is a big day. I got back to the Ortho guy and get new images of my back to see if I am healed enough to start PT and get out of this brace.

So that’s about it on the update front. Cancer is dying, I haven’t experienced any of the crazy bad side effects. Been playing guitar and waiting on the Ortho guy to tell me I can start rebuilding the muscle I loss being in the brace.

If anyone wants more detailed information or to donate to research for Multiple Myeloma here is a link to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. These are the people who are most likely to find a cure. Which means no more blueberry muffins on Tuesday, but also no more shots and drugs that make demon babies.. The muffins are good, but not that good.