What I fear

 



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 big woods, the beaches, the savannah at Greenbank, Port Townsend with R and her buddy Sarah, a self-described Cashew (Catholic/Jew) from Detroit. Dropping notion of driving to Florida in favor of something easier. Good time at Sarah and Charlie's place over the waters of Lake Washington and dinner at Bar del Corso up on Beacon Hill.

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