Still watching and waiting
Good news from the hospital this morning. My blood test results are similar to those from 7 weeks ago and the tumours don’t seem to be getting any larger. I
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A visit to A&E
A few days ago I had the unexpected pleasure of seeing how well Royal Derby Hospital’s A&E department works. Unexpected, because I fell on an ice patch in the office
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Some of my friends and colleagues are finding the course of “non-treatment” that I’m currently on for mantle cell lymphoma a little disturbing. I admit that I did too at
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The good news from the hospital this week is that I still don’t need to start chemotherapy and that I won’t have to go back for more blood tests and
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Earlier on this year I was invited by my local GP practice to go for a free health check as I was about to reach the grand old age of
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Some good news! While I’ve been told that I will definitely need chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to treat my lymphoma, for the time being the plan is to
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Having spent rather more time that I’ve wanted to with the medical profession over the last couple of months, I’ve noticed the way that they use language is sometimes just
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I went back to hospital yesterday for the results of my PET/CT scan, bone marrow biopsy and MUGA scan, expecting them to be a simple ‘box ticking’ exercise to enable
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Before I can start my chemotherapy treatment, I’ve been booked in for a number of other tests. As well as a battery of blood tests that I was given last
Continue readingHello to the end of the beginning
The last time I wrote something on here, I mentioned that I’d had a diagnosis of lymphoma. Since then, I’ve had a more specific diagnosis given to me and a
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