Upcoming plans

Hey folks, just checking in again. Cleve is receiving two units of blood as we speak, hopefully this will give him a little boost for extra healing. While our medical oncologist from Houston, Dr. Hwu is vacationing she asked Cleve to email her weekly so she can keep an eye on him. We just heard from her a few days ago and her plan for us is to finish radiation this week, taper down on his steroids and then she would like us to start Ipilumimab. Ipi is an intravenous medication recently approved for the treatment of melanoma that is used to help activate the immune system in order to fight the cancer. Im not quite sure of the protocol at this point, but I think it can be repeated a few times if it seems to be working. The best part is that we can do this at home with our oncologist here. Finally, a traveling break, whew! This will probably make Cleve tired, colitis is also a side effect so its good Cleve is replenishing some of his blood supply. We will start this probably next week as soon as radiation is over with.