{"id":4478,"date":"2006-07-18T21:44:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:37:26","slug":"health_update_w-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4478","title":{"rendered":"Health update &#8211; word from the Lymphoma Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last Thursday&#8217;s debacle of going for my appointment at Sloan Kettering and never seeing Dr. Zelenetz, <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2006\/07\/health_update_d.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Health update &#8211; Dr&#8217;s appointment but unable to see the Doc<\/a> I was finally able to speak with his nurse today. (&quot;Nurse Nancy&quot; &#8211; she was off Friday and Monday). Here&#8217;s the drill from Dr. Zelenetz:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to get a white blood cell booster shot tomorrow at the Sloan satellite office in Sleepy Hollow. Then on the 31st I will see Dr. Caron in Sleepy Hollow and begin my once a week for four weeks Rituxin treatment. This will be the end of my anti-lymphoma therapy. Then in three months I will see Dr. Zelenetz, complete with scans &#8211; presumably a CAT scan. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Z is not concerned about the low white blood count and feels no need for a bone marrow biopsy. Evidently this is fairly typical coming off my type of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past, Dr. Zelenetz is pretty conservative about these things, so if he&#8217;s not concerned about my white cell counts, I&#8217;m not concerned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last Thursday&#8217;s debacle of going for my appointment at Sloan Kettering and never seeing Dr. Zelenetz, Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Health update &#8211; Dr&#8217;s appointment but unable to see the Doc I was finally able to speak with his nurse today. (&quot;Nurse Nancy&quot; &#8211; she was off Friday and Monday). Here&#8217;s the drill from Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}