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Health update

Good news today. Last month I started a new chemo regimen and my M-protein level has already started to turn around:

This is only a small drop, but what matters is that my M-protein levels have been slowly rising for over a year and now they're headed in the other direction.

In other good news, all my other lab work looks pretty good, too. There were a bunch of miscellaneous items that had suddenly gone above their recommended values, but every one of them is now back in the normal range.

Most spectacular of all is my neutrophil level, which is a proxy for the strength of my immune system. The normal range is roughly 2000-7000, and I've almost never been within that range during the past seven years. On a few occasions I've been as low as 500. But last week's labs pegged me around 3000 and this week's labs have me at 5300. For now, at least, my immune system appears to be back to normal.

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  1. Bill Camarda

    That's very good news.

    My wife was diagnosed with advanced cancer 2 1/2 years ago, and even though your cancer is entirely different from hers, it was your charts that helped me understand that someone could potentially be tracking their biomarkers for a very long time, and maybe even drive them back down towards where they belong when they start sliding upward.

    I just wanted you to know that your charts have represented one small vicarious data point of optimism through some tough times here. (She's OK for now.) Thanks! Keep it up!

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