Drew Wohl

I meant to update things a bit earlier. After the news regarding the cancer, it turns out that I am qualified to go into a study for a new immunotherapy drug that is in a early stage trial.  It seems to be a drug that shows promise in at least stopping the further growth of the cancer, though sometimes it may reduce the tumors. If I can hold serve at this point, that works for me.  I ran a 5k race and did over 2,300 yards in the pool today.  Being able to do that is totally acceptable. Unfortunately this will throw off my schedule a bit.  I have a triathlon next week (end of April), but will be coming back to a biopsy and then my first treatment.  Since I will have approximately zero days of training available between the triathlon next week and then the triathlon a month later, I may have to skip the May triathlon.  And a June one. If I feel healthy (i.e. no potential nasty side effects come to the fore) and the doctors give me the okay, I may do the triat...

It has been a few week since I finished the Las Olas triathlon.  There was a brief break in training and I am starting to get back into it, though has been derailed slightly by a head cold and starting to do some checking off of items on the bucket list. I had a scan right after my return from Florida.   But being optimistic, I signed up for the Las Olas triathlon in March 2019, only this time increasing the distance to Olympic distance.  The next day I saw the report.  I was not meeting with the oncologist until a few days later, but I could see the news was not good.  There were more lymph nodes that were cancerous, though the older ones seemed to be progressing slowly.  But a couple of spots had doubled in size in the three months since my last scan.  Granted they were still small, under 1 cM, though one was pushing 1 cM, but it was still concerning.  It seemed my efforts were not working out.  Though I knew the odds were against me, I sti...