Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog

     Monday, after work, Wynn and I hustled to O'Hare to catch a plane to Denver because the next morning we had an appointment with Ross Camidge, MD, PhD - a lung cancer specialist at the University of Colorado.  This is the appointment I scheduled after I had a tumor marker scare, which I blogged about back in January: http://lunaoblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-fire-drill.html      Dr. Camidge is a medical oncologist, clinical pharmacologist, and researcher with extensive experience in lung cancers that are caused by DNA mutations, such as the kind I have. There are a few clinical researchers in the U.S. that specialize in patients with ROS1 mutations, and I chose to make an appointment with Dr. Camidge because I had read that he had experience with patients who also have cMet mutations.  I have both, (or so I thought), so he seemed like the guy for me. The Anschutz Cancer Pavilion at the University of Colorado Medical Center is a large...

       It has been four weeks since I was skiing at Solitude in Utah, fell, and injured my right knee.  Getting insurance preauthorization for a brain MRI to check for metastatic disease took a day.  Who knows why, but i t took nearly two weeks to secure insurance preauthorization for an MRI of my knee. There's good news and bad news. I always like to give the bad news first...      I did some real damage.  Per the MRI, I completely tore my medial collateral ligament (MCL), partially tore my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), have a segond fracture, and contusions on my femur and tibia.        The good news:  By the time I saw my orthopedist after the MRI, things had started to calm down and heal.  The swelling and pain had reduced significantly and I was able to bear weight well.  The MCL and segond fracture will heal on their own and I'll probably be able to get by in life with a partial...