Doctor appointment tomorrow, will get blood work and hopefully can schedule a stress test for my heart. I've been concerned about chest pains lately, which sort of radiate throughout my shoulders when I exercise. Its pretty intense, I get short of breath and feel faint. Its probably because I'm so out of shape, but heart disease does run in the family and with all the chemo drugs I've been on I just want the reassurance that I don't have a heart condition. Then once I have that confidence, I'll be back to pushing myself and feel okay when I feel "the burn".
Finally have pictures of the house going up. These are from day 2 and day 3. Super excited. Also wanted to pass along that I, and a bunch of people from my mom's group will be walking the 1 mile Especially for You walk at Mercy Hospital on October 2nd.
And lastly for all you immunology researchers out there- I just met (online) a gal who is going to join a clinical trial for metastatic breast cancer, where they will prime her own Dendritic cells against the Her-2 protein and then reinfuse them into her. I was super excited to see that some of the work we do at the lab bench does translate back to patients- and I feel so proud to have been a part of that. The trial is out East, so I won't be joining the study, but I can't wait to hear the results. Oh and one more fun fact- if your looking for the next grant/fellowship to write, consider metastatic breast cancer. The vast majority of breast cancer research is directed at the initial treatment and/or the etiology of the disease. Very little actually focuses on the metastatic disease which accounts for all breast cancer deaths. So its a under-researched area, FYI.
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