A decidedly mixed bag

So, we're back from the latest trip from the Oregon Clinic, and we've got good news and not so good news.

The good news is that Dr. Crocenzi was very pleased with how Cheryl has bounced back from radiation therapy and that she's gotten her appetite back.

The bad news is that we're now out of clinical trials. There's a few coming down the pipe, but they're not yet taking applications for those. Plan E looks like chemotherapy, and the best case with chemo and melanomas is simply slowing it down; it's very, very seldom an actual cure.

Yeah, not the news we wanted. We're both pretty down about basically being down to our last straw.

The next clinical trial Dr. Crocenzi mentioned would involve a biopsy of a melanoma in order to create a vaccine, and perhaps fortunately, Cheryl is now covered in purple dots, so they won't have to go far to find one...

Hey, I'm trying to find good news anywhere I can these days.