Dr. David Fajgenbaum

The drug you're on that you just relapsed on, this is it.

There's nothing else.

And I remember my dad and my sisters and Caitlin were around me.

I remember there was like a minute or two of us just like crying our eyes out.

Like, this is, you know, my, this is the world's expert.

This doctor is in Little Rock, Arkansas.

He's like the world's expert for Castleman's.

And I'd gone to see him just like we're talking about earlier.

Like, you know, you go to the expert and he's telling me like, there's nothing else.

Like, this is it.

We tried everything.

And, um,

He said, I'm going to give you the chemotherapy that you got in the past, all seven of those chemotherapy drugs.

I'm going to give them the highest possible human dose we can give.

Let's hope they work.

But you're approaching the lifetime maximum of chemotherapy, this one drug called atromycin.

We're not going to keep giving you more, and this stuff's going to stop working.

So you just sort of need to be prepared for that.

And so we were bawling our eyes out.

And then when the doctor left the room, something sort of clicked the same way that it clicked with my mom.