To coincide with national Nutrition and Hydration week, I thought it would good to share with you Ryan’s experience of malnutrition as a result of his lymphoma diagnosis.
We went back to see the Paediatrican on 13 July 2016 to discuss the blood tests that were done the previous month. Ryan's hemoglobin was low. ESR 33 and CRP had come down slightly to 25. Unfortunately he had lost more weight so the decision was made to admit him to the children's ward straight away.
26 August 2016, we received the gut-wrenching news that haematology consultants at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff believed Ryan had a very rare form of Lymphoma, known only to Asian and Latin American populations of men over the age of 50.
There were still further tests needed as a few experts were baffled to see this cancer in a 14 year old Western European Caucasian boy. We were given the confirmation diagnosis…
