35. The Numbers are in for Protocol #2
I won't make you read the whole post to get to the punchline... The last PSA reading before starting on the new protocol was 2.3, a drop from a high of 2.5. That alone was good news since it had been on a steady rise up to that point. After 30 days on the new drug protocol, my PSA dropped to 0.2, just a tick off the low of 0.1 which was measured at the end of chemo treatments in 2018. Good news. We are breathing a cautious sigh of relief as we were not positive it would work at all. We plan to continue on the drug until it no longer works, and as mentioned in the previous post, that could be from 4 to 8 months, possibly longer. After taking the drug for 30 days, I had to go in for an all day blood testing session in the adult chemo infusion department at UC Davis. Juli and I blasted down there for a 7AM arrival at the lab for a baseline blood draw, then drove over to and checked in at the infusion center. Since I am on a drug trial, they have very specific requirements and proc...