Thursday, March 08, 2007

still rolling along

Had an MRI and appointment with Dr. Cloughsey yesterday and Mark's scans were again unchanged. The doctor said he didn't see anything that he was worried about. Mark had taken his Jan and Feb temodar on schedule without any side effects. He did report a small "euphoric like" seizure on 2/13 that lasted for a half an hour, but felt that there were other circumstances (eating late, not getting enough rest,etc) that may have contributed as well. Mark had his blood work done again and everything was up to par and he's cleared to start the next round of Temodar, starting Saturday night. Since the last post, Mark has also had another injection of the dendritic cell vaccine without incident. There are two more boosters that will be available to him during the trial over the upcoming months.

Plans are in the works for a Tom Atkinson memorial 5k that will be held mother's day weekend in Long Beach. We're all training to get ready for it and will starting to be raising funds as well. All of the money will go to jeanniescure.org which directly supports research for UCLA Neuro-oncology and is helping to fight brain cancer. Stay tuned for details.


Mark is headed up to Solvang this weekend to do another century bike ride with his bike club!