Category: My lymphoma and related medical stuff

We arrived at one o’clock, had some admission tests done and got upstairs to the room around three o’clock. The room is very nice with all the amenities they had mentioned – computer, DVD/VCR player, and plasma TV (but not a big one!). I was checked in by a nurse practitioner by the name of…

I have received many lovely notes, emails, and face to face sentiments, which are greatly appreciated by everyone in my family. My good friend all-the-way-back-to-college Dennis Cannon sent me an email in which he said “I’d like to call it an adventure, because I think you kind of see it as a unique challenge. Like…

I started this webjournal exactly four months ago, on September 8th. After about a month I migrated the journal from it’s original home on blogspot over to typepad. Or rather my brother Phil did. I complained to him about something on blogspot, and he just moved everything over to here (and paid the first year…

Went to the gym in the early afternoon, and when I finished on the bike, I “hit the weights.” However the chest pressing machine I like to use was in use, so I decided to do some bench presses – specifically the sets and reps I used to do as a strength test. I stopped…

Is that you then have trouble getting to sleep.  I just spent from 9:30 to 10:30 in the gym and it’s great from the point of view of not too many people there. But now I’m not going to be able to get to sleep before 1:30 or 2. Not good. I only go to…

Both the NY Times Gain Reported in Combating Ovary Cancer – New York Times  and the Washington Post Abdominal Treatment For Cancer Promising report this morning on a chemotherapy regimen that the National Cancer Institute is recommending. To quote from the Washington Post article: "…the National Cancer Institute is urging doctors to begin using the…

Below is an excellent web posting. Coincidentally, since I am bashing the NY Times (see the post below this one) the author uses columns by NYT columnist Paul Krugman as his foil to highlight the Canadian shortcomings. The issue of how to provide and pay for healthcare is certainly a difficult one. Part of my…

On December 23rd I wrote about people who’ve contacted me and either have mantle cell or have a relative or friend with it. Tom Faranda’s Folly: Postings and comments from other mantle cell patients, their family, and their friends I mentioned Faye, whose family had a weblog going about her treatment, that she’d had a…

A few things to expand on from my last post. I will be in isolation, but here’s the set-up for the room: a desk, a built-in computer with internet access, a plasma TV and a DVD (not to mention, the bed and some chairs, cabinets, etc). This all according to Dr. K. He told me…

We met with Dr. Kewalrumani, today (after a two hour wait!) and things are now finalized, with my entering Sloan Kettering on Monday, January ninth. Six days of high dose chemotherapy, the return of my previously harvested stem cells on day eight, and then we wait for my white blood cells to build back up…