Category: My lymphoma and related medical stuff

I am told by people who follow these things that doing a self-portrait with a digital camera is all the rage. So I just did my own portrait, by the simple expedient of holding the camera at arms length and snapping. I took six shots and, believe it or not, this was the best! Imagine…

I had my fourth and last rituxin treatment today at the Sloan Kettering annex next to Phelp Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. My blood cell counts are low. Total WBC’s are 1.6 (down from 4.1 three week ago) and my RBC and hemaglobin counts also below normal. So I was given a shot of "Darby" (I…

Today is the eight week anniversary of my discharge from MSK. It’s also the end of what was initially set as my "limited activites" period. I celebrated with pizza (two slices of sausage, from Capricchio’s), while the four of us watched the DVD "The Brothers Grimm" (the sort of movie that is entertaining enough on…

Today was the third of the first four Rituxin treatments I am getting post- chemotherapy. The next and last series will be in four months. Before the treatment I was seen by my original oncologist, Dr. Wasserheit. I hadn’t seen her in several months, and she was quite plesed to see that I’d weathered all…

I got out seven weeks ago. I should have only another week plus a few days of limited activites and diet restrictions, but I will probably ease very gradually back to normal activites and diet, considering my recent bacterial chest infection and yeast infection. I believe both infections are now past tense. Temperature is normal,…

My meeting with Dr. Casper this morning before my rituxin treatment resulted in my getting a prescription for Nystatin. Dr. Casper felt I had a yeast infection in my mouth/throat. I had that type of problem after the first RCHOP treatment months ago. I could have gotten it this time from taking the Tequin antibiotic…

Today is day six of my seven day antibiotics course. And it seems to be going well. However yesterday afternoon my temperature spiked up to 101.5 and I got some noticeable chills. By 11PM my temperature was on the way down and overnight and this morning, it was normal. What to do? This morning I…

Here’s an interesting article – a review of two reviewers, reviewing three books on health care costs! The author of this article, Arnold Kling, is an economist who graduated from MIT   TCS Daily – Is Socialized Medicine the Answer? Brigid is from one of the original lands of socialized medicine – Great Britain. today, in…

And of course two days after my quick visit to Sloan Kettering’s Urgent Care Center on Friday.Tom Faranda’s Folly: Elevated temperature earns me a trip to Sloan Kettering I am sure the antibiotic I was given on Friday is having a good effect on my chest infection. Cough is almost totally gone. However – I…

As I mentioned in my last post – Thursday – I’d been having a slightly elevated temperature, and also some chills. And I just didn’t feel right – I felt run down – not like chemo fatiique – more like I had a viral infection or something like that. I hadn’t used the dumbbells all…