Second Week of Radiation

Adrienne is getting ready to start her second week of radiation. Thankfully, she has no side effects so far. Last week, she was itching, a symptom of her disease, but that has subsided and the lumps on her neck are already smaller. She's been suffering a cold the last few days but was a bit better yesterday, except for some sinus pain. Hopefully this will pass soon. She was very tired on Friday and Saturday, probably from the cold, but is keeping up with her school work.

We continue to look into clinical trials that Adrienne might benefit from. There is one at Stanford involving cytokine-induced killer cells, where they reproduce the cells that kill cancer in the lab, and then infuse them into the patient. Daniel would need to donate yet again for that one. There are a couple of other trials that use haplo bone marrow or stem cell transplants, usually from one of the parents, to induce the killer cells. The world of clinical trials moves very slowly so it will probably be another month or so before we know if Adrienne qualifies for these and which one might be best.

Daniel is going to drive down to visit Adrienne on Friday night, and then to his dad's house on Saturday. Adrienne is going to Disneyland on Saturday with Straight But Not Narrow. It will be a nice break for everyone.