Dear Maura

Besides missing you terribly it was not so bad.
Zé took this photo in a restaurant in Little Korea. I had a four hour break between two blood draws so I walked from 53rd to 32nd. Not bad for a first day of a study. I am already home. Hard to believe that New York is suddenly so close.

(Maura is my dear Research Nurse at Dana-Farber)

My long and "bery" sweet break (since surgery in June) is coming to an end. I spent the Summer preparing my body for the upcoming combat (with a balanced diet, exercise and relaxation) and now I am ready to return to the battlefield (this time in NYC). The Hope is that R7112, my new weapon, will target the MDM2, and get my wild P53 to work and kill my cancer cells.

:))) this is how I understand the Nutlin-MDM2-p53 diagrams my oncologists, Dr. Jeffrey Morgan and Dr. Geoffrey Shapiro, patiently drew and explained to me.

for me this is poetry

Shapirogram


Morgangram

Carolyn Charron, one of my nurses at the
Dana Farber, wrote this poem and Maya,
my six year-old daughter, loved it!



Study Buddy

Study Mouse, Study Mouse
Will this drug be the cure?
Will it kill off the cancer,
And my body restore?

Study Mouse, Study Mouse
In the lab, this drug worked for you
Here in the CRC, will it work for me?

Study Mouse, Study Mouse
Come help me cope,
Give me Strength
And Infuse me with hope.


To bring us good luck with our Phase-One treatments,
Carolyn makes these colorful mice.