My Journey

Utah Valley man responds to cancer: 'I choose to live'

Utah Valley man responds to cancer: 'I choose to live'

Before being diagnosed, Hall had spent the previous few months becoming healthier, changing his lifestyle with more exercise and better nutrition. ...

SO YOUR SAYING THERE’S A CHANCE

They question of course is how is the cancer journey going. The short version is not all that well. I am still on the lowest dosage of the trial me...

WHEN OTHER CANCER PATIENTS PASS AND THE WORDS WE USE

I’ve definitely chosen the every day I fight attitude from the outset of my diagnosis. It was fitting for me as I coined “I Choose to Live” as my m...

FRAMING YOUR NARRATIVE

I was mentioning writing an update every day this last week, and just didn’t get to it each day. I’ve had various reasons, all of them pretty valid...

THERE I GO HOPING AGAIN

There I go hoping againAs I mentioned in my last post, I was given a few weeks to try hydrating like crazy to possibly dilute the bilirubin in my b...

MY LIVER IS A WIMP

So for now I’ve got another couple of weeks to see if this makes a difference. Fingers and toes crossed hoping this can do the trick.

PHOENIX TAKE 14

Sitting in the airport after my latest trip down for this clinical trial headed home. I’m at the airport early, so I figure it’s time to do some ca...

AND JUST LIKE THAT THE BUBBLE BURSTS

Remember when I said I was waiting for confirmation of all my results so I could stay on the trial? I didn’t want to get too excited about the CT s...

ALLOWING MYSELF TO HAVE HOPE

This scan determines if the trial drug is working. If I show more than 20% growth I’m out of the trial and off of the drug. That’s it. There’s some...

LIVE LIKE YOU’RE DYING

I’ve been in increasing pain over the last few weeks, to the point I’ve had to get on a regular regimen of much heavier pain killers than I’d ever ...

BETTER, ROUGHER, BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH

You'd think being off of a chemo drug you'd immediately feel better. Not so. I've continued to feel worse each day, in my gut, liver area and overa...