 In 2003, early in the year, Gussie started acting a little oddly, and I didn't know what was wrong with him. I really didn't, and I thought it was just stress. So I had booked the cruise for relaxation. The night before we were going to go on a cruise, his personality totally changed. And in the ER, I was diagnosed with a rather large frontal lobe brain tumor. Five days later, the pathology report was sent to several different places because they didn't know what it was, and it turned out to be renal cell cancer. And we were in shock, and after where he was scanned, they found that he had multiple lung tumors, a medius donal mass, the kidney mass, pancreatic tumor, and a bone met. I played drum for like 40 years. Then I got married. I had to get a real job. I went to school. I became a paramedic. We had a real nice job. Both of us, she as a nurse, we traveled a lot, did a lot of wonderful things. We were regular scuba divers. We worked on a cruise line together. That's where we met 18 years ago, and met in Alaska of all places, and we never stopped traveling after that until his diagnosis. After his brain surgery was over with, and the pathology report came back, we went to an ecologist in our town, and at one point hospice was suggested to us, and I said, what is the other option? And they referred us to Moffa Cancer Center, which we're eternally grateful for because it was here that things started to look up for us. The internet's a wealth of knowledge, some good, some bad, but we found a lot of good information on a website called Steve Dunn's kidney cancer site, who was a survivor who had used interleukin way back. We also went to kidneycancer.org site, and also, again, a wealth of knowledge for us, so that I left him to study while I worked. The side effects, once they started, usually 15, 20 minutes after your dose started, about 15 or 20 minutes after he would start to shake, the rigors are really, he just, the whole bed would vibrate, and they would give him medication to try to combat that. It slowed it down a little bit. The nausea came with it, the fevers, but the nursing staff here are incredible. They had a time to a science. They could know exactly when to give them what to help prevent the side effects from being worse than they were. Yeah. The first couple of treatments were the worst one because they were just trying to time when all the side effects were coming in. So after they got that done, it was easier, but still pretty bad, but worth it. For him, quitting wasn't an option. There was one point, watching him with the bad side effects that he was ready to give it up. And I looked at him and I said, you know, if you want to quit, I'll take you home and I'll stay with you. But if you want to stay here, I'll stay with you too, and we can kick this. And he says, okay, one more time. But it was hard to watch. Some of you love going through that, it really was. We found out that tumors were starting to shrink in size after the second round of IL-2. And so that's when it decided to keep on going. But two more rounds after that, he wanted to quit. He was so sick. And that's when I talked to him into keeping going. And it was seven months. We did seven months of a week a month of the high dose treatment. And then by August of that year, they were gone. Tell all the people that are considered to take a pro-lucan for their renal cell cancer to be positive and let them know the side effect that you cannot quit. Don't let anybody discourage you from trying it. Some people will say, oh, it's a very low success rate. Well, you know, he was a seven percent survival rate. Somebody has to be in that seven percent. Why not you? Be positive and think that you're going to be one of the survivors that has the good success. My best advice to any caregiver is just to be there. Just hold a hand, comfort your loved one. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do besides that. It's something that's out of your control. And I think just the emotional support is what they need. And also as a patient, that's very important to have somebody there with you. Right now, I'm still working, thank God, but I'm getting back into playing my drums, which is my life after her. Right answer. He plays jazz and blues every Sunday night at a place in Sarasota and it's a jam session. He just has a ball. And he was going through his last round of Prolucan. He wanted a dog. He hadn't had a dog, so I bought him a golden retriever. He's 10 years old now. That's his get-well gift. Of course, we have a female to go with it because he needed a girlfriend. So that's our life. We were never blessed enough to have children because he was diagnosed eight months after we got married. So our dogs are our kids. And we travel with them as well. But we just plan life one day at a time. Leo makes fun and says, we don't even buy green bananas anymore. You can't plan that far ahead. So just enjoy life as it is.