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Well the first chemo wasn’t as bad as I’d built it up to be in my mind, despite taking a full 8 hours due to me having a bit of a hot flush halfway through; they seemed more worried about it than I was.
I must admit that I was put on the back foot when I first entered the chemo room, because the reality of the situation suddenly hit me with renewed clarity. However within minutes I was put at my…
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As I finished my last post with a mountain climbing analogy, I thought I'll stick with it.
I will be starting R CHOP for the first time tomorrow and I'm a little apprehensive, but I see this as the base camp and if I want to get to the top this is the starting point. I was reading up about the treatment and its side effects, but found it was depressing me so I stopped. I'm happier to go into this in blissful…
Having some bone marrow taken - I wonder if there's any truth in it when the doctor tells you that some people hardly notice the procedure at all?
I recently went to have some bone marrow taken as part of assessing the extent of the NHL and this is how things went.
The during the time in the waiting room we at first started to pass the time by reading a 1998 edition of What Caravan, but soon we were distracted by the…
