Quick Update

Brody has been feeling good most of the time this week.  His appetite has picked up and he has been eating much better.  He has been enjoying playing outside with his brothers and friends.  Spring has finally arrived to the Toledo area.  

Brody seems to feel much better than he did a couple a weeks ago.  I am hoping this may be a sign that his kidney function has improved.  We are still waiting on his kidney to hopefully heal.  He will not be able to receive chemo nor enter any trials until his kidney function is good.  

In the morning Brody will be getting labs checked to see if he is ready to start chemo again.  He would normally be due to start the next cycle in the morning.  We are really worried that his kidney function will still not be good enough.  If Brody's labs indicate he's ready for chemo again, then the oncologist plans to give him  chemo this week Monday through Friday.  Then a couple weeks later he would have scans again to check the size of his tumor.  If the tumor has gotten bigger, then he would be eligible to enter the HSV trial.  If not, he would not be eligible.  He would continue with the chemo regimen that is stabilizing the disease.  There is only one spot left for the HSV trial.  It's possible it could close again before he even gets the next set of scans.  If Brody's labs show his kidney function is strong enough to enter the HSV trial, I plan to ask the oncologist if maybe we should go ahead and do scans now rather than in a couple of weeks.  My concern is that maybe the tumor is growing and the HSV trial we want to enter may close again before we have chance to enter it.  We don't really have a back-up good chemo option to go to if the current one is no longer stabilizing the disease.