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Mister BoJangles

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I l istened to Mister Bojangles by Bob Dylan the other day as I walked. I wanted to be him, to dance, leap so high and lightly touch down. The song continued and I realized I am his beloved companion, the dog. YOU, Darling, are Mr Bo Jangles. Dance, dear heart. Dance. Then lightly touch down. I love you forever.

January Update

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In my last post I explained that my chemo was bad enough we didn’t repeat it. Dr Corn ran a scan on me that did a targeted highlight of my cancer - it was very precise, pointing out some lymph node cancer that would usually be missed with a normal scan. Good news is that I am one of the 80% of guys who can use a newly released treatment called PLUVICTO, which uses the same targeting chemicals to carry a small nuclear payload to the prostate cancer cells. Bad news is that it is a new treatment and the drug is only manufactured in the Netherlands. The soonest he could get it for me was “late March or April”. That doesn’t seem terrible, but Dr. Corn, quite frankly, doesn’t think I have that long with no further treatments. SO, that means we will go in for a once/week dose of chemo instead of a once/3 week dose. Hopefully, it will be less traumatic for my body. After all, it is one-third the amount of chemical poison in my system. He hoped that he could get me in a clinical trial on the ne...