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  stumbled upon this tiny house in David and Gayle's backyard with even tiny versions of Angus and Bayrah      What I fear is the immuno doesn’t really work and they start a new chemo and you stay sick, sort of lingering, half in and half out of your life. Yes, that seems to be what's happened or will soon happen as I imagined it a month ago. After some months of infusions of the immunotherapy drug Keytruda or pembrolizamab a single cancer spot in the pelvis lit up in the PET/CT scan and Oncologist Harris said to stop further immunotherapy and start a moderately heavy chemo regimen and that this was to slow the progress or growth of the cancer not to cure it. He further stated that best case scenario I would live for one to two more years although that "best case scenario" and the likely more severe side effects of the chemotherapy give me pause.      Be that as it may, every thing else is pretty peachy what with the great walks with multiple people and dogs in the bi

     unmedical      Wednesday some pet and ct scans to determine if immunotherapy did anything. Friday chat with pa (45 minutes late as S and I sat in exam room on the 7th floor of SCCA downtown twiddling thumbs) who had little to nothing to say about scan anyway. S tweaked her pert little nose on that score; I stared into the middle distance. PA said Oncologist Harris would phone in with his take in under an hour, which he did and told us that there was a li something in the area of the surgical intervention of July of this year, aka the groin, but he couldn't in all honesty say what it was: inflamation, infection, or perhaps cancer. There was a small pool (3x6 cm) of liquid there with a small nodule on one side that was sucking radioactive sugar. So anyway O. Harris wanted to bring together a multi specialist cadre to hash out the most likely conclusion as to the nature of the thing and to figure a safe way to biopsy it. I got stuck on the word "safe" as it had not come