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A new treatment, scanxiety, and a blog change!

Hello remaining readers! As we weather tropical storm Isaias, I am chilling at home after a new treatment yesterday after what was an exhausting and emotional few weeks. This blog post may be meandering as a result. I'm processing a lot and am just going to try and get it out on the page, so please bear with me. But let me start somewhere. Along with my once-every-three weeks immunotherapy, I had yet another a new treatment yesterday. My oncologist started me on an infusion called Zometa, which is a bone-strengthening agent. It is administered via IV and lasted about 15 minutes. They started giving this drug to patients like me who are in medically-induced menopause to combat brittle bones. In so doing, they found that it had some protective effects against potential bone metastases. So I'll be doing that once every six months "for the next several years." They said it may cause mild flu-like symptoms, and sure enough, I woke up today feeling a little achey. It'...