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You said on Instagram that the palliative chemo is to hopefully get you ready for a new treatment. Is that still the case?
Stonehedge-
It is, but at this stage any chemo is just to "buy time" which could potentially be a decent amount of time..
Problem is the previous timing of almost 3 years between relapses has been blown out of the water.
Either the transplant chemo didn't wipe me clean which says "it" is now significantly more resistant to chemo, or my body isn't up to fighting it off for long now.I was only disease free, if at all, for 3 months this time so potential outlook is - chemo for a mi th next week, cell harvest for rad new immunology trial in the US. Then a transplant or sorts somewhere in england and 4 weeks under 24hr obs.
Seems theres equal chances for the treatment to cure me, do nothing, or tear my body to pieces and attack all my organs.
If it does nothing my only option going forward is chemo for as long as it's feasible / my body can take it / it actually has any effect
Rowhan
I relapsed sometime in January...
Pet scan confirmed early last week
Biopsy results tomorrow or tuesday should tell me how long I've got / what my chances are.
I probably start palliative chemo in a week I expect