Category: My lymphoma and related medical stuff

I finished the first RICE chemotherapy protocol on November 7th, and now 13 days later, I still feel a bit fatigued at times. Again, nothing dramatic, at times just a bit lethargic. And I am feeling it in the gym. My weights program is the same as when I started chemo (Sept. 6th, 2 and…

While the chemo fatigue has not totally lifted, it certainly is much lessened. After two days of no gym (time pressures), I went last evening and felt pretty good. Of course, this was after a pretty big nap, having traipsed around Westchester and over to Northern Jersey for most of the day! The ENT lady,…

Chemo fatigue is lifting. Sunday afternoon when I went to the gym, things went much better than my Friday visit – when I struggled for 12 minutes on the exercise bike, and did about half my weight program. I rode the bike for 20 minutes – 14 at level nine and 6 at level six…

Well I certainly don’t want to go out and run any sprints, but I think chemo-induced fatigue from last weekend’s RICE protocol, may have bottomed out on Thursday-Friday. Friday afternoon I went to the gym. The plan had been to ride the bike for 14 minutes and then do the weight session – modified based…

Spent the better part of today in CT, chauffeured around by my assistant/associate Judy Anderson. Decided to take a short cut through Port Chester (how smart was that?), which added half an hour to the trek back, and got stuck behind a fresh accident on the Taconic Parkway. A good thing we’d arranged for Judy…

When I started on RICE, it was suggested that it was a bit tougher than the prior RCHOP regimen. But if I tolerated RCHOP well, I wouldn’t have too much trouble with RICE. Well so far RICE does seem to be tougher. This morning, less than 48 hours after finishing RICE, I did feel fatigue,…

I got home this evening at about 6 o’clock. The RICE infusion went well – without a hitch. But it was a bit weird to have a running IV from 4:30 on Saturday to 4:30 on Monday. And most of that time with medicine being infused. Beside getting chemo Saturday into the evening, I was…

An eventful – and funny – AM. First I go into the bathroom to brush my teeth (and pee – the constant IV, you know) with my small traveling tube of Crest. I start brushing and the toothpaste tastes funny – very funny. I thought “how old is this stuff?” And look at the label…

Well I’m in Sloan Kettering as I post this, and finished with the first of three infusions of Eutoposide. This is the E in RICE and I will be getting this all three days I’m here. Tomorrow I get Carboplatin, as well as the start of a 24 hour infusion of Infosfamide. I suppose the…

Brigid took this on October 23rd, about 31 days after she took the picture of me that I’ve used to ID myself on this journal. What a difference a month makes! When Dr. Zelenetz saw me yesterday almost the first thing he said was “You haven’t lost all your hair. Most people look like Telly…