39 weeks to go…

i just finished my 9th week of self injection.  18.75% done.  39 weeks go to.

if you count the 4 weeks of IV IFN, i’ve done 13 weeks, which is exactly 25% of the 52 weeks of treatment.  of course, that doesn’t count my time on drug holidays.  i started the IFN on June 16th (the day before I started this blog…) Which is 4+ months ago.

I have at least one month of drug holiday time in there.  it feels like i was on holiday for more than that, though.  i guess it was just one week in the IV IFN, two weeks in between IV and SubQ, and then two weeks when i got back from Banff and was super sick.  I guess the first week back on the IFN felt like a holiday b/c I was only on a 10 MIU dose.

i was diagnosed on feb twenty-something.  I got the first call on the 20th, but didn’t formally hear the words “you have cancer” until the 22nd.  so that makes it 8 months i’ve been dealing with this.

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I am 30 year old Brooklynite who was diagnosed with Stage III Melanoma in February 2008. I started this blog after the first day of high dose Interferon chemotherapy in June 2008.

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