Lucky

This morning I went back to the hospital to see my consultant. The days leading up to watch and wait appointments always prey on my mind, but this time has felt particularly stressful as I was also due to receive the results of my recent CT scan.

Conclusion? I’m lucky. I’m still in the small percentage of people diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma that appear to have an indolent variant of the cancer. The lymph nodes in my neck and under my chin have grown noticeably over the last year (the largest is now 3.75 x 3.5cm), but there’s nothing much to get excited about elsewhere in my body. My blood test results are still stable. I’m unreasonably concerned about starting to look rather odd because of the swellings, but I was no Daniel Craig (or Johnny Depp) to begin with anyway.

This is not a picture of me.

 

So it’s back to the day job and the MSc until February at least, unless things start to change drastically before then. I hope they don’t. Long may my luck hold out.