3rd dance with germ cell cancer

Well out of hospital and now back home, well been out of hospital for three days but spent those days at my parents, sort of a half way house just to ease the burden of my care off my wife while i regain strength to stop her worrying. And now im in the limbo land position, not sure whether thats it with my treatment, has it stopped, will i get another attempt at stem. Cell harvest and the final third cycle of hdc to…

Yep 17 days after i checked into this wacko hotel, im checking out Never did find the swimming pool, or the bar, , did find the toilet on more than onece. So umpteen blood and platelet transfusions and im back where i was 17 days ago, with hopefully smaller tumours Now whether this cycle went well and whether i be allowed to do this all again has yet to be seen For the next few days i get to relax, with no 2am…

Well i think it is my last weekend in this unusual hotel, my blood have improved and it seems certain that my neutrophil count will be above 1 come monday morning, But where do i go from here, In past ive been delighted that the chemo had finished and time to get on with life,only to see my afp Tumour markers start rising straight way indicating a reoccurrence the minute the chemo wore off Now here my options…

Well my oncologist or is it urologist ( can never remember which one seeing me, i know it wasn't the haematologist as i saw him in the morning) popped his head round the door to give me an update on my treatment, Its still working, yay, but even though i didn't ask what my tumour markers are down to it seems they're still far from normal, but going down. So i took a deep breath and did point out that the original…

Day of the year and im not allowed out, typical, So my blood counts are going down quicker then the titanic but no word on what my tumour marker are Im very confused prior to my treatment when my afp was rising , it was no your scans are clean , we really dont want to treat you to we have a visible disease to fight, we know its a reoccurrence, but we recommend doing nothing until we can see what we up against, So…