July 22, 2024 | 28 mins

In this episode, Brian Aurich shares an update on his journey with glioblastoma over the past year, including treatment updates, the role of innovative therapies like vaccines and Optune, and how he manages scan anxiety and treatment decisions. Check out episode 2 to hear the beginning of Brian’s experience.

Tumor Type: Glioblastoma
Tumor Grade: Grade IV
Treatment: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, Optune, vaccine in Germany
patient
Current Stage: In Treatment

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Transcript
Bri (00:06)
I'm Bri Salsman, a brain tumor survivor and identity integration coach, and you're listening to Rewired Minds, a podcast that shares brain tumor stories that change us. Sometimes guests use medical terminology, so I've partnered with Northwestern Medicine Malnati Brain Tumor Institute to provide definitions of common terms. You can find the full list in the show notes. Most importantly, take care of yourself as you listen and process.

Bri (00:29)
I'm excited to welcome back Brian Aurich. We connected last year, and you can hear his story with a grade four glioblastoma in episode two. It is actually one of our most listened to episodes, and I know he's had a lot going on since then. He recently crossed the one-year mark from his original diagnosis. So I am so thrilled to have him back for an update. Hi Brian, how are you doing today?

Brian Aurich (00:54)
Good. Hi Bri. It's so good to talk to you again.

Bri (00:57)
I've been following you on social media and I've seen a few updates here or there and so I'm looking forward to doing a a deeper dive.

Brian Aurich (01:03)
I feel like there's a lot happened but it's also feels like it's been such a short time, so

Bri (01:08)
I would imagine so. And I I think where we left off our conversation, you were actually heading into an MRI three days later. Maybe let's just start with filling us in.

Brian Aurich (01:20)
Yes, so the all important news is that MRI, which was October 2025, was clear and stable or NED as they say, no evidence of disease. They've been letting me have the the as often as I about want my MRIs right now, so I can get a lot of validation that it's going well.

So about every two months I go for an MRI and all have been clear and stable. My neurooncologist has been very pleased with seeing how my brain's been healing and that there's been no sign of any cancer activity.

And just on a side note there, July third of twenty twenty six was one year from my craniotomy and my initial diagnosis. So just over twelve months into it now and that feels pretty great to still be clear of any recurrence of the tumor from glioblastoma.

Bri (02:01)
That is wonderful. That is absolutely wonderful. An MRI every two months. We talk about a lot in our community about the anxiety that that creates going into it. And could this be the one? Is this is this the one where I'm gonna get the news of a recurrence or things like that? How do you experience those MRIs?

Brian Aurich (02:20)
Yeah, I I think it's about the same. I don't know that it's gotten better with each one, but it's it's more of just a little bit on edge. There's definitely that that feeling of what's gonna come. Most of them I go in in the morning, I get the MRI and I go get lunch at the hospital cafeteria and then have the appointment with the doctor pretty quickly that same day. So I get the news pretty quickly.

This last one I had the MRI on June twenty eighth, and then the appointment with the doctor on July second and later in the day, So it was a little bit more unnerving. I think that is gonna be something that is going to sit with me for a while and hopefully at some point, with some other things that I'm doing to get this treated, that will relax over time. But right now it's it's still pretty rough every time.

I’m keeping it at every two months right now just because if there is movement, recurrence, signs, I want that to be found as early as possible. So we're not sitting on it and letting cells grow and things happen there.

But I imagine at some point they'll recommend be further apart and insurance won't want to pay for it every two months. But right now I'm able to take advantage of that and so that's what I'm doing. So I don't have to wonder quite as much what's going on for the next one.

Bri (03:31)
Yeah, yeah. I guess there's a a trade-off there. You could say that common phrase, the lesser of two evils, so to speak. Would I rather face the uncertainty of is it growing, is it growing, or would I rather face the scanxiety and do scans more frequently?

Brian Aurich (03:43)
I think I'd rather have more frequently and have lower level of scanxiety than have them further apart and maybe have a lot more wondering I should have had one sooner.

Bri (03:52)
I totally get that. And you mentioned or you kind of alluded to some other things that you're doing to help treat this. What has that included?

Brian Aurich (03:59)
Well, I'll catch up on all the treatments. I think last time I spoke about doing the standard protocol of, you know, radiation for six weeks and I did seven weeks of concurrent timizolamide chemo, which is pill form, and then had about a month break and after about a month I started both Optune Geo which is a essentially some arrays or stickers that you you know you kind of put on front back and side to side of your skull and it attaches to a box that you wear in a pack or around your hip that sends tumor treating fields or basically electrical frequencies that disrupts the cellular replication process of the cancer cells. So I've been doing that since last October. At the same time I started the five twenty three adjuvant chemo cycle, which is the same timazolamide but in higher dosages for five days on and then twenty three days off and that is supposed to go for six months.

We got to five months and then my next treatment was supposed to be starting, so we stopped that just shy of a month and I started treatments CEGAT, C E G A T in Tubigan, Germany and they have a vaccine that they create from a sample of my tumor. They create a custom vaccine that goes to train my system to recognize the cancer cells as foreign objects that shouldn't be there and to attack them. June 15th was my first treatment and I had four days of treatments in Germany. And that is going to be an ongoing process that will have a total of 14 treatments. That can take quite a while because they spread out those treatments over time. But I have three more coming up basically monthly, at the end of July and then end of August and beginning of October. So I am very excited about that.

It's not a brand new thing, They actually have a trial coming to the US that they're working on getting set up for later this year and so it's starting to pick up some steam. And I think there's some similar treatments elsewhere that are picking up this approach of custom vaccines targeted towards the person and their cells. It's not covered by insurance. It is self-funded, so there's some hurdles to get through mainly financial.

There are some things they look at about as far as the the tumor, recurrences and things, to determine if it's something worth a patient to put the cost out to to do it. But in their paper over thirteen years they they're showing some improved prognosis and so I'm hopeful about that.

Bri (06:14)
I know a few people who have either gone to Germany or are planning to go to Germany for that same treatment. Like you said it is definitely picking up steam so to speak here in the US. There's a lot of buzz around it.

I want to backtrack a little bit. Let’s start with the Optune. So for people who are not familiar with Optune or haven't heard of it, this is a wearable device, correct, that you're wearing a good chunk of the day.

Brian Aurich (06:42)
Yes. So the requirement is seventy-five percent or more of your days. And there's some people that really drive their numbers up to the high nineties but I think I've been in the low to mid eighty percent and that meets the requirement and that has impact. You have to shave your head right down to the skin and you change these arrays out. They look like kind of big round bandages, almost like starfish, but maybe a little more filled in between the arms. So and they have these metal plates in there that are supposed to be right up against your scalp.

People will use fans and you gotta kinda keep it covered and cool, else it can kind of overheat and stuff. But, you know, overall it's okay and if it's what's helping me get these clear scans, then that's great. I'm not going to totally sugarcoat it. It's a little annoying at times. Having this thing with these cords that you sort of put them in this wrap and this thing comes down that you've got clipped to your belt that connects to another cord that is connected to the box that's I want to say about the size and maybe not quite as heavy, but similar to let's say a college textbook. So it it's not small. And that has a battery in it that you have to change every few hours. And then at night when you're sleeping, you can plug it into a box that's connected to the wallpower so you're not having to change the battery.

Going out and about with it is fine, but you've usually got to make sure you've got a fresh battery, and so it's it requires a bit of management. But there are people been using it for years. My current plan with it is to use it until this upcoming October when they're going to test my blood and see what kind of immune response my system is having to that vaccine. So that's about where I'm looking to because while I I do believe it's it's helping and my neurooncologist says there's a lot of good data that says it is most effective when you're doing it concurrently with the chemo medications.

It's kind of up to the individual how long they want to do it because you are attached to this box that you're having to kind of deal with and manage throughout the day and cords hook on things, and people have kind of come up with different strategies for managing it. But that was the newest proven technology for for for dealing with glioblastoma.

It's been around about ten years, I wanna say. But you don't see them too often out in society, so I get a lot of questions when people notice I've got chords running up under a hat to my head and they think it's kind of interesting and funny at first. And then I tell what's for and then they get kind of somber.

Bri (08:50)
I used shave the side of my head where my scar is, and that prompted a lot of conversations as well. And I was always intrigued by different ways people enter the conversation, particularly complete strangers. I'm kind of curious how those conversations go for you.

Brian Aurich (09:06)
Yeah. Most people are just really curious at first, of course. Like I've just been walking into Walmart and had a couple he just looked over, he's like, Could you tell me what that is? Excuse me, you know. So we stopped and chatted about it. And and another time at a pizza place, a older couple nearby who was very… they're very funny. We were just kind of all talking back and forth about different tastes and food and things. And then he was like, What is this? And and I told him and immediately they're bringing me over and having a prayer circle in the middle of the pizza place which is I'm not religious, but I appreciate any positive energy anyway that people send my way in and it's much appreciated.

So yeah, I was at a boba place with my daughter and a young man behind the counter was like, Hey, so can you tell me about what that is? And we were kind of joking back and forth about something and and I was like, Okay, I'm gonna tell you. It’s gonna be kind of hard, but like you don't have to feel sad about it and I I I told him and immediately he his face kind of dropped and he felt bad for me. It's like it's okay.

It is a bit of a load. I don't mind telling people about it. I think it's just carrying it with me all the time feels like it's a constant reminder that I have this because I feel fine otherwise.

Recently with my trip to Germany and even right now, I'm on a short break because I happened to drop the unit on concrete and it broke. So they just sent me a replacement. So when I get a break I feel very free, but there's also that bit of fear in there that I'm allowing cells to replicate.

I'm grateful for it and so it is a very personal decision. But it's a tool that we have to help with a very rough disease like this.

Bri (10:32)
Yeah, absolutely. I also want to touch on the treatment that you're getting in Germany. You mentioned it more as like a vaccine. That gives the impression that it's more of a proactive measure to prevent a recurrence rather than treatment for something that is currently existing. Am I understanding that correctly?

Brian Aurich (10:51)
That's correct. They base it off of your most recent tumor cells. And in fact, if you do have a recurrence, while you're getting the first treatment series, there's an option to to have the vaccine reformulated with the latest tumor cell if it was removed or if there was a biopsy and they can get cells from that because it is targeting certain peptides to essentially train your T cells to recognize that this is a foreign object you know that shouldn't be there.

And so if it starts coming back, it will go attack it. So it is intended to be preventative off of the last tumor profile. And so if there's another one, it can have a slightly different profile. Then there's always a discussion with the patient at that point.

It's not something you would just go and do and say, I don't ever want to get glioblastoma. So I'm gonna go do this vaccine and it's gonna stop me from ever getting that kind of brain cancer. It's only something you can do once you've had that first glioblastoma tumor and this particular treatment does need a sample in order to get it formulated.

Bri (11:48)
When I think about vaccines, I'm thinking about those that I've gotten in childhood or through the pandemic kind of like a shot in the arm. I imagine that's not what this is. I imagine it's something probably more significant than that.

Brian Aurich (11:53)
They give you an option to say you can do it in the stomach or you can do it on the on like the top of the thigh. I chose the stomach. I think I'll try the thigh next time. The first time you go out there, there are four treatments over four different days. They're each only about 30 minutes. It's pretty quick. But they give you two shots of the vaccine. They're subcutaneous, meaning just under the skin. So you get a little bit of a bubble from the the vaccine that goes in.

And then they give you two shots of something called leukine, which is the brand name for essentially something that helps to trigger a stronger immune response to it. So they want to kind of get your white blood cells going and your immune response going to it. Essentially you get four shots for each treatment. The last two, the leukine is not too bad, but the first two are described it as a bee sting and I think they undersold it. You feel it.

Bri (12:43)
Ha ha ha

Brian Aurich (12:44)
The pain isn't that bad, but you feel it. My PA that I that I'm working with is most likely she's gonna be the person doing all. She's wonderful, kind, funny, jokes, you know, lots and lots of jokes, good German humor. She's in there, she's done, she's quick, and then slaps a bandage on it and puts a cold pack on it and tells you to stop being a wuss, you know. So but with a smile. They're very good there. Before you even start the treatment, she's in there like, what kind of tea or coffee do you want? Do you want me to make you a latte? And so you're sitting drinking a latte getting your vaccine shots, you know.

Bri (13:14)
I always appreciate when the healthcare team is able to make light of it, not in a way of minimizing the seriousness of it, but just to lighten the mood a little bit because it is a very serious thing and it can be very heavy.

I just was having a conversation the other day with someone about how important having humor as part of this experience is as well. And how much humor is medicine as well. And so I I've always… I find it refreshing when I work with someone on my medical team who's able to make me smile in stressful situations like that.

Brian Aurich (13:49)
Yes, absolutely.

Bri (13:49)
Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so if I remember correctly you've got 14 of these treatments. And you said you did four this last time so you've got 10 more. How how many visits to Germany are you doing for this?

Brian Aurich (14:01)
So it'll be a total of eleven visits, as long as it's just this one run. But I know there are people that started this several years ago that are still on their first fourteen. So after a time they can spread them out, especially if you're having a good strong response and you're not having recurrences, then they can spread them out where it might be every six months or even once a year at a certain point in time.

But at first, they want me there basically monthly up through the seventh treatment. At the seventh treatment, they'll take a sample of my blood and they'll test it for the immune response and they're looking for some strong responses in there. And there's some certain T cells and things they're looking at in there. And that just gives you an idea of how well it's doing. And it could be a weak response, and that still shows a benefit. but ideally, hoping for a strong response.

When they did my initial testing on my tumor and blood cells, they said I had 22 peptides. Not everyone has the 20 peptides, and so it's the 22 peptides in in in my samples that they could use 20 of them. And so essentially they said I had two in reserve that could be used later. I'm not quite clear what that means, but I know it was positive.

One of the other factors that they look at for success in treating is whether you're methylated or not, or or whether you have a mutation or not an IDH mutation. And so I am basically the worst of those two. I'm IDH wild type, no mutation that they can go target with known treatments. I am unmethylated, which essentially means that the chemo has less impact. My type of cancer cells will just go right back to rebuilding. They'll go ahead and self repair. So unmethylated wild type is not the outcome you want. The bonus is I had, you know, a tumor that was easy to access and they could fully remove.

Hearing that, you know, I I had a good number of peptides and hoping for a strong immune response is what I'm looking for because the initial tumor testing profile here in the US was, you know, not very promising. So

Bri (15:47)
Yeah, absolutely. Although the results have been, it sounds like, promising thus far, which is is great to hear.

Brian Aurich (15:55)
Yes.

Bri (15:56)
Please correct me if this isn't how you would describe it, but it seems like you kind of made this decision. I am going to tackle this with every tool in the toolkit that is possibly available to me. I'm curious how you arrived at the decision for doing all of this. We talked about the surgery, the craniotomy before and the chemo and the Optune and now going to Germany.

You know, lot of people would think, oh my gosh, this is too much. How did you go about thinking about what to do and what to put off to the side, if you will, in in your treatment plan?

Brian Aurich (16:29)
I mean the first steps of it were they're pretty much standard protocol. I know some might choose to skip radiation or not want to touch chemo, and there's a lot of discussion about other side effects and there are definitely people that have had side effects from those treatments.

I am very scientific driven and I am going to look at the medical advice and I'm gonna look at other the other scientific information that's available. My surgery was an emergency surgery. They just said, Hey, there's a big mass in there and that's causing your stronger headaches, it's causing your cognition issues. We need to get there and get that out. And I didn't I didn't even question that. Going into radiation and and chemo was also just this is the steps and I've just got to fight this.

Optune seemed to be left up more to me. The initial oncologists I had, which I've switched from my local multicare cancer center to UW Medical Center, and so when I switched up there, but both of them were not pushing Optune, which is interesting. I think they just found that a lot of people found it frustrating. And a lot of people received all the equipment and after a day or two said nope, I'm not doing this and sent it back. And I can understand why.

I’ve got kids and I and I like life and I do not relish the idea of allowing this to come back and not even just the shortened life expectancy, but like the path to that final stage. It's it it it's not a path I want to take. And so I'm gonna put that off as long as I can.

And then with the vaccine, it does have some documentation. It is in a peer-reviewed site at least that has some trust in being able to, you know, read the sources.

I briefly explored some of the other options out there. I had a one appointment with a naturopathic doctor that I I don't know that'll go back into that, but it was it was the most ridiculous thing and the things I was told to do and the things he said he could fix. It it just boggled my mind that someone could be doing that. I know not all are like that. And so I don't want to denigrate the whole field, because I have talked to other integrative medicine doctors that have offered some help for certain areas like nausea and sleeping and things that have been useful. But I avoided the ones that said they had the cure with only supplements or only certain diets, et cetera.

I do think there is something to diet. I've definitely got some work to do on my diet, but that's more for my general health, and I don't believe any of those have direct impact, the ability to cure this. I believe this is… this needs a lot more scientific and medical research to improve the chances.

Bri (18:45)
I really appreciate your transparency around that. Something that my team has emphasized with me over and over again is we need to be having an ongoing conversation about the kind of life you want to have so that we can make recommendations to help you have that life and what's most important to you versus things that maybe aren't as important to you. And that's where we collaborate to create a plan that allows me to have the quality of life that I want. And you know, for some people that does include alternative options and others it doesn't. And it doesn't mean that any is better or worse than others. It's just that's the path that you have chosen for yourself. And so I I appreciate you being really open about how you arrived at what you wanted to do versus what was off the table because I think it's important for people to hear kind of how those decisions are made.

Brian Aurich (19:36)
Yes.

Bri (19:36)
And of course, you recently crossed the one year mark, which is a big milestone. How was that for you?

Brian Auich (19:43)
Very reflective. I think it wanted to feel celebratory, and it was to a point. I think the other part of it is just acknowledging that I don't know why I hit a year mark. I mean, I think I did these things, right? And I think these things all help, but I also know other people that have done these treatments that they haven't gone well. And so I think there's a lot of reflection in there.

You know, I wrote a post to my friends family on Facebook and I did kind of a shorter version of it on my public Instagram as well. Kind of a a review of the year and just noting that, smiling helps and being positive helps to a point, you know. And people say, you're so brave and you're so positive about this.

And yet I have those moments just sitting there wondering what this is like and why and and all those pieces too. And so just letting people know, you know, this isn't easy. There's still some people that are like, I thought you took care of that. They don't quite understand the, at least what glioblastoma is and other cancers like that too, that aren't just gone just because you took care of the first instance of it. So I wanted to try to get some of that across a bit that this is going to be a lifelong battle and I plan for it to be a long one, but I don't know. I just don't.

But it did feel good. A year ago in July third, as I went in for emergency surgery for a mass, they, you know, right after I woke up an oncologist walked in the room and said, You have grade four glioblastoma multiform and it has a median prognosis of twelve to eighteen months. So I'm at that first twelve month mark and I'm still doing good. So that's good. And then there's only about five percent of people make it five years or longer. And so those are the numbers still there. Now for a variety of reasons, I think, you know, those numbers are improved for different people that are in different states and stages and their general health and age and other things too. So I wish we had more data so we could look at that more detailed and it could be individualized for each person of what would work best for them.

But yeah, it's very reflective and I feel good but just also feel very wary at the same time of of how long this is gonna go for, I guess. So just to be frank and honest there.

But when I'm not sitting and just thinking about it, I I can be very positive and I've got a lot of good things going for me and I'm enjoying life and and other things that are going on.

Bri (21:44)
I remember one of the things that you shared in our first conversation is plan A is to beat it. So we're going for that five percent. It sounds like still that's still plan A.

Brian Aurich (21:56)
Yep, I'm still on track.

I don't think I feel survivor's guilt, but I do kind of wonder why I'm still doing well, but I am happy that I am still doing well.

Recently I opened up my phone and turned on Facebook. And there's a recent person I had also worked with in kind of our our youth programs when I was attending church. And he's a couple of years younger than me and he had diagnosed with a different type of cancer last November. He had been fighting it and I didn't know like how he was doing recently. We weren't really in touch, but other than on socials and stuff like that. So I was kind of seeing how it was going. And his brother posting that he had passed. And it's only been about six or seven months I believe since he was diagnosed. And that hit hard. It's a little it's close that I can't understand it being at that point for his family, but I can understand a bit about what they've been going through. It's just a lot closer I want it to be.

That piece is kind of always there. But I'll say I went into a severe depression within a couple of weeks after my diagnosis last year. I think it was just initially in a lot of shock. Went into depression, recognized that a couple of weeks later and got some medication that really helped and I've been off the medication now for months. I have been on another medication I take maybe not as frequently or or regularly. I was on Zoloft before and that really helped a lot. I switched over to bupropion or welbutyrin. But I'm on a low dose and I don't always take it.

Overall I think I've integrated this with myself, right? I don't sit and think about it that much. Or I don't let it take my emotions to that darkness I was a year ago in in later July. But yeah, I have those moments where I I I see other stories and I have a feeling of what they were going through, even though I don't have their experience. and it scares me and it makes me sad. And that's okay. And that's part of like I can't ignore this. I have to integrate it with me and and in who I am and and then continue on and enjoy life for those that maybe couldn't anymore and for myself.

Bri (23:43)
Yeah. What I'm hearing in all of this is that from our our first conversation, your relationship with the diagnosis has shifted and evolved. I'm curious to know how how you would describe that evolution.

Brian Aurich (23:57)
I've talked all about this fear being there, but at the same time, like I go about most of my time without that fear. It is just there. It is just part of me. Until something happens, I'm not going to let it kinda majorly take over. I touch base with it from time to time, whether it is through hearing about someone else dealing with their their own cancer or disease illness or just for myself.

Maybe that lets me gives me kind of that little vent point of not letting it all build up but and still acknowledging it's there. It's there and it's part of me and I hope to be able to keep being able to who's goes many, many years without it having any further impact. But I hope to get to the point at some time where time allows and things that I'd like to push for more funding, more research, more awareness of glioblastoma and other brain tumors and cancers because not having better treatments we definitely need more in that space to give people more hope so they're kind of not constantly going through this recycling of is this gonna be the time I get a result that isn't good, et cetera.

Bri (24:53)
Absolutely. What gives you hope?

Brian Aurich (24:55)
Just that I continue to do well. That does give me a lot of hope and that I've got so many people rooting for me. I married last year, last November, I got married to Amy, who I talked about in the previous one. She's just been there so much for me and she's just such a a wonderful person. And we have a lot of good times together and we have hard days and we have a lot going on in our lives right now, trying to still merge households and having one of our kids move out of state and trying to figure out how to deal with two houses. But I think just continuously planning for the future now.

I was listening to my last episode with you and, you know, one of those things is like I don't know what I can plan for, right? I don't know what I can do next. I think the outcome at the time was plan the next trip, but I didn't even know if I should buy furniture, right? At the time it was like any month now this could just take a downturn.

And so a year out, we're making plans for doing things that will that will have a longer term outcome. And so I think that gives me hope. I I have hope that this treatment, that this vaccine especially, will be that extra kick beyond the standard treatments that's going to help take me further. So that's that's the hope I have is taking part in that and just for whatever reason how well I'm doing so far will are are the key things that will keep this at bay for a very, very long time.

Bri (26:09)
Yeah, absolutely. Well, I personally am very appreciative of your willingness to invite me and the listeners back in for for the update of where you are today. As always, both in our first conversation and this update, I am so grateful for your vulnerability and transparency and being willing to have conversations that are tough and difficult. And I think it's important for these conversations to be had.

And for those who maybe are meeting you for the first time because they haven't heard your first episode yet, where can they find to get connected and stay connected?

Brian Aurich (26:48)
My public Instagram handle is at outside dot perception P-E-R-C-E-P-T-I-O-N. You go back at my past you can find my off-roading and outdoors adventures and then of course the past year you I've started posting a little bit about my cancer Journeys there and you can reach out to me to if you want to connect and and DM me from there if you're someone dealing with this or someone with a loved one dealing with this and you've got questions or looking for resources and I can share with you what I have and what I've learned.

Bri (27:14)
And we look forward to seeing the two-year post and the five year post and the ten year post of all the success and health in your future.

Brian Aurich (27:24)
Exactly. I look forward to it as well and I think I felt a little somber this year talking about it, but I I definitely look forward to a lot more years and a lot more joy in life about this.

Bri (27:38)
Thank you for being part of the Rewired Minds community. Full show notes, resources, and a transcript for today's conversation can be found at rewired-minds.com. If you or someone you know has a brain tumor story to share, I'd love to hear from you. Visit rewired-minds.com to learn more about collaborating on a future episode. This podcast is a one woman labor of love. It's a true honor to bring it to your ears and facilitate connection among the brain tumor community. If this episode resonated with you, please rate, review, and share with someone who might need to hear it.

Bri (28:10)
The stories shared in this podcast are personal accounts from the brain tumor community for informational and awareness purposes only and are not intended as medical advice. Always consult with qualified healthcare professionals regarding your specific situation.