Two Treatment Tuesday

Yesterday I started the dual treatment combination of Opdivo and Yervoy. It took a while to administer as the infusions aren't simultaneously given. Also I had a liter of saline infused before, so that added roughly an hour to the time. (8:30 am - 1:30 pm.)

I've not experienced any side effects other than a single diarrheal movement, and I'm hopeful that will be well controlled with Imodium. It's usually been just a few days of that after previously being treated with Opdivo. 

The amount of that drug is reduced somewhat in the combination but the Yervoy is the same amount.

One nice tidbit, I just learned is both Opdivo and Yervoy are produced by Bristol Myers Squibb (how'd you like Squibb for a surname,) so the officially publicized idea to combine the two coming at the same time Opdivo was FDA approved makes more sense now.

Hopefully this will give me some solid results, and I'll keep updates coming.

MRI DUCKS MRI NOT

And by ducks we mean tumors, leasons etc. in my brain.  

And In case you're not getting the dual reference joke ...

An MRI is a Mechanical Resonance Imager which provides sliced imagery views of anything you place in the tube and run into and out off enough times to combine the many images to get an accurate picture of a brain. The magnets strength vary by cost of machine, but no belts, jewelry, nada magnetic should join your brain for the noise fest that commences. Just ear buds or sound proof headphones.

The joke is an old "redneck" joke which is funny just a time or two:

REDNECK SPELLING TEST

MR DUCKS

MR NOT

OSAR

LIB

MR DUCKS

I had an MRI this last Monday and fortunately there are no new surprises (last one was in August 2014.) Part of me had hoped they're be some new connections in my brain due to my months spent using Lameosity, but alas... I signed up to try Lumosity last year  on The App Store, and stopped playing after I mastered the games avaliable on iPad and they become too reprtative. So I figured delete the app and move on, but no...I get this mystery PayPal charge to renew Lumosity for $79. 

PayPal was quick to refund (almost as quick as I was to change my password and email.) What bugged me was I first paid Lumosity via the App Store (I love how these things automatically capitalize after being input, imagine super hero pose with cape and deep voice each time for effect.) and then somehow they're getting money via PayPal without my knowledge. 

I suppose this is what say to ever using Limosity again 👣💩

Yesterday I had my 5th Opdivo treatment, and am glad I hung onto a bottle of Imodium ...it' wasn't needed more than a few times, but this does seem to finally be a side effect of this treatment as it was similar the last time 2 weeks ago. 

And without a stomach its gurgle palooza before the Imodium. If you ever go into a heavy drug treatment get ya some just in case, or do the natural Brazillian way, and mix half a cup of corn starch and water and drink.