MDX 1106/Votrient Trial

foxhd said:

pain
In review, pain started in my front right pelvic crest where my hip flexor tendon inserts. This was just before Christmas. Progressed to where I couldn't climb stairs step over step, or get into the car without serious effort. Pretty much became homebound. Then mid spine pain began and both were very intense by second or third week of january. Began needing the percocets to get around the house. This was about my 3rd cycle of MDX. Then by mid feb. I could feel the pain diminishing substantially and gone by march. I was able to return to full exercise during march, and have had no pain since. My infusions are every 3 weeks. Also, scans had shown my pelvic crest and t4 had large lesions which are now mostly scarred and inactive. Next scan is in a week and a half. Hope to get continued good reports. I pray John does this well too......also, my wife had suggested that I keep a journal and I have not. So often I am losing some specifics that should be clear. However, I used my treatment calenders to confirm this progression.

Texas_wedge said:

golf and attitude
Alice, i thought this item from an email I've just received might interest John

"psychologists at Purdue University in Indiana have recently discovered that better golf players appear to perceive holes as being larger than they actually are.

The research involved showing golfers a board with different size circles drawn on it after they'd finished their round, then asking them to indicate the one which was the size of those on the course (one circle was the same diameter while others were either smaller or larger than real life).

The better players tended to overestimate the size of the holes by between 10 and 20 per cent, and the researchers believe this may have led them to adopt a more positive mindset while they worked their way around the course.

It's probably fair to say that you don't become a winner in any sport by expecting to lose. Whilst I'm sure that being ridiculously over-optimistic can be self-defeating, it seems sensible to assume that it helps to adopt a positive attitude.

In life, as in sport? Go into today expecting it to be a good one, and it may well will be. Start off foreseeing the worst, however, and you might just be proved right."

Have you located the posts you wanted to follow up on?

Has John been reading Jerry's book and, if so, is he enjoying it?

Texas_wedge said:

golf and attitude
I'm glad John enjoyed the book. I was fairly confident that it would be up his street.

Re the Digest, you may not be surprised that I've been in touch with Robin, Peggy and others to suggest simple ways in which they could improve the list and make it more easily assimilable. There are constraints which seemingly make it difficult but I'm ever hopeful. I, too, hastily went back to the Digest after trying the straight email version and getting my inbox even more swamped. I find the HTML version best and it's worth experimenting with the settings.

However, I've found that there's a better workaround. For research, use the keyword search facility but for everyday keeping up with new info, ignore the Digest and go into the Archive, selecting the latest month. 'Home Page' gives access to the Archive listed by month but it also gives a list of the latest messages, chronologically, with topic and author. You can select the number of messages displayed and I have mine set currently to 10. Going into the current month shows the Table of Contents, with the messages listed, classified by topic, alphabetically and then the messages, expandably, by topic, sub-classified by date. It's a far less painful way of engaging with the information, so much of which is very interesting and potentially helpful.