What's old is new again

Big change to my treatment.  I ran out of Cobra and fortunately Ki's insurance plan allows me to sign up even though its not open enrollment based on how long we've cohabited here in Corvallis.  The drag is my care at pdx providence is now out of network... And the minimum out of pocket per year for me to go there would be $15,0000 and being in the middle of Yervoy we'd hit that in one  treatment.

Yesterday we met with our new oncologist down here at the Corvallis Clinic, Dr Wallen, and it turns out he spent his residency in Washington working on Melanoma, so he's a great new choice for me.  He's worked with mucosal melanoma back then, and had quite a few ideas.  He thinks we should biopsy the brain tumor that was removed to see if its not modified now that the Gleevec is no longer effective so we could approach it with a new perspective.  

We're going to finish the 2 remaining Yervoy infusions and see where things stand.  He knows Dr Curti, and can use him as a resource too.  I feel quite good to be working with him, and it's great to have someone who has his history working with melanoma.  Crazy good luck that he was the one who came up here as the referral was location focused rather than dr specific.

I've decided against riding the coasters at the county fair... Oh well.  Unless the physical therapists want to go...

So that's the big news, and it's pretty big as the group at providence have worked on me for so long.  But we might just get lucky and really benefit from a new perspective.