ovarian cancer

It's spring, which means everyone is busy getting out from under winter. Passover and Easter are here, cottages are being prepared for the summer, kids are making their plans for camp, events are being planned and people are generally looking forward to the wonderful times that summer has to offer.

Onwards and upwards...one clinical trial didn't work, and so we move on to the next.

You know, it seems that no sooner do my hopes get raised that they get dashed once again. I need to stop planning for the future because it is clearly presumptuous.

So, no video this week because once again, I got sick. I had a wicked flu on Monday night that had me violently ill throughout the night. It took me a couple of days to recover from that. Not the best way to start the week, especially after suffering a series of migraines last week, including one on my birthday last Tuesday, the 10th.

So, as I mentioned quickly last week, I did start the new clinical trial. It consists of two drugs. There is a low dose, daily, oral chemo called cyclophosphamide that everyone takes. Then, there is a second drug that is randomized. Only half the people on the trial get the drug. It is Abbott's version of the PARP inhibitor. It is completely randomized. Yay me! I got the PARP inhibitor!