About 8:00 PM my phone rang and when I looked at the number I knew it was from the Huntsman Cancer Hospital. 
It was Brittany, my surgeons PA. I first met Brittany back in Feb 2013. She is one of my favorite Angels.
Brain MRI and ct-scans have been clean for almost 2 1/2 years. Early last year I had a couple advanced metastatic melanoma tumors start growing on the back of my ear. This is the area where the cancer was first diagnosed back in Oct 2011.
It metastasized and traveled from the side of my scalp to my the side of my face by my ear, my brain, lung, a cracked rib, pelvis, adrenal gland, abdomen and into my stomach muscles over a period of about 6 years. All of that is gone now due to some amazing oncologists and treatments.
When I was first diagnosed I was given less than a 15% chance to live another 5 years ago.
I've made it a lot longer than 5 years. 
I've had about 100 days of appointments over the years at the hospital with a 400 mile round trip for each day of appointments.
I've had several different chemo treatments, radiation, immunotherapy treatments, surgeries and in the early days prior to having treatments that targeted the cancer I participated in a couple of different clinical trials.
When the cancer returned to my ear this past Feb they resected the tumor and the area around it and started me on another immunotherapy.
I now have 4 new tumors on my ear. January 6th they did a punch biopsy on one of them and it came back as metastatic melanoma.
Brittany called last night to tell me that the Tumor Board, made up by the oncology doctors, nurses, PAs and researchers had met yesterday morning and they decided that I should start another "injectable" where they inject a virus/immunotherapy directly into the tumors.
I've had this injectable treatment before and it kills cancer.
I am sooo excited to get started. I am sooo excited to kill more cancer. Not a lot of people get to kill cancer but I do with the help of all the amazing Angels who work at The Huntsman Cancer institute in Salt Lake City.
Its going to die a slow and painful death....... Color me grateful.
I had to fix one of the S's so I don't get an infraction for posting foul language.
It was Brittany, my surgeons PA. I first met Brittany back in Feb 2013. She is one of my favorite Angels.
Brain MRI and ct-scans have been clean for almost 2 1/2 years. Early last year I had a couple advanced metastatic melanoma tumors start growing on the back of my ear. This is the area where the cancer was first diagnosed back in Oct 2011.
It metastasized and traveled from the side of my scalp to my the side of my face by my ear, my brain, lung, a cracked rib, pelvis, adrenal gland, abdomen and into my stomach muscles over a period of about 6 years. All of that is gone now due to some amazing oncologists and treatments.
When I was first diagnosed I was given less than a 15% chance to live another 5 years ago.
I've made it a lot longer than 5 years. I've had about 100 days of appointments over the years at the hospital with a 400 mile round trip for each day of appointments.
I've had several different chemo treatments, radiation, immunotherapy treatments, surgeries and in the early days prior to having treatments that targeted the cancer I participated in a couple of different clinical trials.
When the cancer returned to my ear this past Feb they resected the tumor and the area around it and started me on another immunotherapy.
I now have 4 new tumors on my ear. January 6th they did a punch biopsy on one of them and it came back as metastatic melanoma.
Brittany called last night to tell me that the Tumor Board, made up by the oncology doctors, nurses, PAs and researchers had met yesterday morning and they decided that I should start another "injectable" where they inject a virus/immunotherapy directly into the tumors.
I've had this injectable treatment before and it kills cancer.
I am sooo excited to get started. I am sooo excited to kill more cancer. Not a lot of people get to kill cancer but I do with the help of all the amazing Angels who work at The Huntsman Cancer institute in Salt Lake City.
Its going to die a slow and painful death....... Color me grateful.
I had to fix one of the S's so I don't get an infraction for posting foul language.
