How do I restart this stupid thing?

Well, it’s been several months since my last update and I’ve have a lot of things that have happened in that time frame. The quick run-up to now is that my Auto SCT went in practice better than it could have been written about in the textbooks. However, the treatment was ineffective against the cancer and I relapsed after about three month’s post-SCT. The next step was to enter a clinical trial of the new chemotherapy called MGCD0103. The purpose of this chemo is disease stabilization. Instead of eradicating the cancer, the plan is to slow or stop the tumor growth while I recover from the Auto-SCT. I was on MGCD for about 5 months with good results until this week when a routine CAT scan showed that the tumors had begun to grow again. The main site of interest is the tumor in my lower left lung that had doubled in size and is now about the size of a small baseball. Since my cancer obviously isn’t responding to the MGCD anymore my oncologists have switched me to a more conventional chemotherapy called GVD (also known as GND) it stands for Gemcitabine, Vinorelbine, and pegylated liposomal Doxorubicin. I had my first infusion of the new GVD chemo a couple of days ago and so far have been pretty lucky to have little to no side effects. A few people I have talked to that have been thru this chemo say that it is pretty easy to tolerate and one person put it as “my favorite chemo so far.” We’ll see… I’ll update in a couple days to let everyone know how it’s going.