Update So there has not really been much new news on the cancer front, hence I have not updated.→[More:]

I had my fourth and final infusion of Yervoy (ipilimumab) on Thursday. I thought to have a friend snap a pic of me in the infusion chair. There are about 25 or 30 chairs like this in that room. It is interesting (and scary) to note that each of the four times I have showed up for this infusion, my insurance is charged $53K. Of course the insurance company knocks the price down some, but still.

So now a followup appt. in 3 weeks for more bloodwork (all the bloodwork so far has been fine - they have been doing a check before each successive treatment). then I have to just sit and wait until early February, at the soonest, to get another PET scan to see if this course of treatments is having any effect on the tumors. As I have said often, there is another (newer) drug that they can give me if this has not worked, or worked sufficiently.

I have been feeling OK. Still doing physical therapy to rehab my back, which is improving slowly but steadily. Going to the gym, walking some (although it's been coldish in my little part of the world). I have no idea what the "ideal" is in this situation but I feel like I am doing OK, considering everything. I have been sleeping better lately than I had been immediately after going off narcotics. Thankfully, what pain I have had has been minor and has not needed any sort of medication.

So, some aches and pains and I far from "normal" but I am doing well.

I hope this finds everybody well, also.

(The drowsy look on my face is likely fron the benadryl, one of 3 "pre" drugs that are dripped into me prior to the main one.)