Acedris

So after a crazy holy week of a rental light board, power outages at church resulting in a true service of darkness on good Friday, and 3 services on Easter Sunday, we finally got a little down time Sunday evening. But, Monday it was back to school and "surprise" to many a student and teacher, and much explaining.

Tuesday, today, we started back at testing. Things weren't quite as prepared as I would have hoped, again. Today was also Gil's first turn with the new chemo, Acedris (aka brentuximab vedotin). So far so good; he's a little tired because they gave him benadryl with it as a preventative - it's a fairly new drug, so they were being proactive? Outside of being tired he has said his feet and ankles got a little tingly while playing with Snoopy outside and his head itches a little (well, the hair is trying to come back). I was going to take Snoopy for a short run, but it's getting a lot warmer quickly and he was willing to throw the wubba (dog toy) instead, so...

Moffitt seems to have started a schedule. We/he has an appointment for apheresis on May 14th. We'll see how it all fills out soon enough.