Category: My lymphoma and related medical stuff

A month ago – on September 13th Sloan Kettering had a conference entitled Cancer and Exercise. It was videoconferenced to their satellite offices, and I attended at the Sleepy Hollow offices. A rehabilitative medicine physician and an RN who is also a certified personal trainer gave the presentations. It was interesting – good but without…

My third chemotherapy session was last Tuesday, the 4th of October. So far, again not much in the way of side effects. I was able to have good gym sessions since then, and will go again later today. I do have some numbness in the tips of my fingers. Dr. Chia (the MSK oncologist I…

Today is the midpoint between my second and third chemotherapy treatments. I have a tiny bit of mouth soreness and very minor fatigue, but otherwise no negative effects (except for rapid hair disappearance). My initial chemotherapy – I’ve had two sessions with two more to go, and then the chemo will change – is called…

Had my crew cut on Friday, and not a moment too soon! Tonite my youngest (much younger) brother Phil saw the cut and said "That’s not a real crew cut." I said "the barber set the electric cutter at one inch and that’s good enough for me." Well, just took a shower and the hair…

Hair started to go Thursday – yesterday morning. Perfect timing 16 days after my first chemo and two days after the second one. Just about as the docs and nurses predicted. I was in the shower at 7AM when some hair on my head started coming out. As I got out, in walked the 8…

The session went pretty well. It ran from about 9:30 to 3 o’clock. The good news was that Dr. Chia, the oncologist I saw before the session, felt that since I’d tolerated the first chemo session very well, it was likely the other session would go well as far as side effects. And all the…

Tomorrow I will have my second chemotherapy session – as an out-patient at the Memorial Sloan Kettering satellite offices in Sleepy Hollow. The building adjacent to, and owned by Phelps Memorial Hospital. I was diagnosed with lymphoma a little over two years ago, after a small lump in my neck was taken out. Here is…

This web journal was named and begun on Sept. 8th on another weblog service, and today I decided to move the fledgling operation over to blogspot or blogger.com, which is owned by Goggle. The estimate is that there are almost 17 million weblogs out there, and Goggle is hosting 8 million of them. This is…