Headache Mystery Solved

For what it's worth:Headache mystery solved

Yesterdays' MRI showed a "brittle starfish" like shape where a spot used to be three months ago.

This means no more Temodar. Am applying for another Clinical Study, combining Avastin with Enzastaurin.

A few reflections:

• The Good News about Bad News is knowing the Bad News.
• When one is an outcast one has alot of time to be alone
• Digital Data Back-up beats venomous innuendo
• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
  —D. H. Lawrence

Brain Injury Advocacy

Mornin',

Pass along this PDF

http://www.biausa.org/elements/media/biaa_cog_rehab_position_statement_2007.pdf

Chit with ya'

Whenever,

Peter

Hereditary Cancer Curiousity

 

My  friend John,an OB GYN gave me this attached  Family History Questionnaire for Common Hereditary Cancer Syndromes because he thought it would help.  

"Myriad Genetic Laboratories,is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing new therapeutic and predictive medicine products. Myriad Genetic Laboratories uses innovative technology to perform genetic testing of the highest quality available.

Myriad identifies genes, related proteins and biological pathways, and then uses this information to predict a person's risks of developing specific cancers. Myriad's genetic testing helps people and their doctors work together to more effectively prevent and fight cancer."

Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.
320 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84108

As our Ancestor Archive grows.  Health and lifestyles will invariably be important for our descendants records.

This is just a piece of paper for our own curiousity and enlightenment. It is just a tool we can add to our self understanding of our own genetic constitution.

You can of course follow your inquiry on-line  

 http://www.myriadtests.com/home.htm

Share what you learn,

Do as you wish,

Chit with ya' whenever,

Peter Lott Heppner 

Fifth Cycle

Finished Fifth 5 day Temodar cycle this morning

No worse for wear

• Intoxicated
  
• Achey 
  
• Fatigued
  

Just like to sleep and eat,

Am lucky to do this

Alley Patron

Metastasis by Richard Hynes

From MIT World

“Screens are revealing a lot of different mechanisms by which metastatic cells learn new tricks, and suborn the mechanism of the host to get them where they’re going. The appealing thing is, these alterations offer opportunities for therapies: you can interfere with circuits between cells, restore growth suppression, interfere with blood vessel formation.” Richard Hynes








"About the Speaker

RICHARD O. HYNES PHD '71
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Richard Hynes received his B.A. in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and his Ph.D. in biology from MIT. After postdoctoral work at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, where he initiated his work on cell adhesion, he returned to MIT as a faculty member.

Hynes is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He has received the Gairdner Foundation International Award for achievement in medical science and recently served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology."

Brain Trauma Recovery

Rediscovery of Self

Who am I now?

What do I do 

with

 What I have

left?

Thinking

Works!!!

Peter Lott Heppner 

Anaplastic Astrocytomas Adventurer

Like to sleep alot which I am told is to be expected, part of the healing from the Radiotherapy. Which will take up to a year. There is a straight line down the middle of my head where the hair stops growing. Nothing from the Center to the Right, there is Comedy written all over that without even trying.

When the hair does grow back supposedly between 3-6 months from now it'll have a different texture and color; I'm imagining a blond Halfro.

Am doing ok tho. Compared December 2nd MRI's with July 22nd MRI's and saw a reduction in size of the three tumors; which is what is supposed to happen.

The Left side of my body is slowly coming back but I'm told to anticipate recovery from the Craniotomy on my Right Pre-Motor Cortex to take about a year. Social Security has approved me for disability assistance, and has informed me that I will be reviewed in three years, because they believe my condition will improve. Hmmm, one can see that as pretty Motivational or the ultimate Deadline.

I 'll take Motivational for 50 more , aw heck make it a 10o, 'cuz in addition to beating the cancer, my left rotator cuff needs to be reconnected, then my left distal radius needs to be reconstructed. 2008 had its' not so great moments, however, may 2009 be better than fine,

Chit with ya',

Peter Lott Heppner