Thursday was pretty forgettable. I had to get up early to go in for surgery again. Apparently, during the surgery to install the port in my chest on the left side, the mass in my chest has shifted things around so much that they couldn’t find the vein. So they poked around a bit to …
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Losing count
At some point yesterday, while sitting in a recliner at the clinic with an IV delivering chemo drugs in my right arm, I tried counting how many needles have poked me in the past few weeks. In the previous 12 hours, I’d had blood drawn twice from spots millimeters apart on my left arm. I …
Called up to the big leagues
I’m still in pain from the bone marrow biopsy (try to avoid getting one) I just had a couple hours ago, so here’s what’s new and what I learned today, briefly. I had a fever on Friday night and Saturday. It was pretty unfun. It’s been getting noticeably harder to breathe over the past few …
PET-CT Scan
It’s been a slow week, but today was more exciting. I went into work for 2 hours this morning only because it was on my way to Grand Rapids, where I had to go to get my PET-CT scan. First, let me say that the cancer pavilion there is a beautiful building – the lobby …
(Relatively) Good News
My results are back from the biopsy – it’s Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It’s what we were hoping to hear, because I’m told it’s probably one of the most treatable cancers. I don’t really know a ton of specifics regarding exactly what classification of Hodgkin’s it is or what stage it’s at, but it’s good to finally …
No news
Get used to this game, the waiting one. The results of my biopsy aren’t back yet, and won’t be until Monday or Tuesday, so I have nothing to report to you all. It looks like I won’t be starting chemo next week either with everything getting stretched out scheduling-wise, so if you do know how …
Midweek update
My surgical biopsy went well yesterday. I remember getting wheeled into the surgery room, sliding onto the bed for surgery, getting a warm blanket put on my lower body, and then the anesthesia fully kicked in and I was out and woke up afterwards in a recovery room. My neck is still a bit sore, and I …
You may want to sit down for this one
OK. So. I’m going to keep this short and to the point for now. I found a lump on my neck. It is not good. It is lymphoma. It’s not noticeable if I’m wearing shirt, but yeah, it’s not exactly hiding out either: Last Monday I went to the doctor to get it checked out. …