Well, here goes...

2010-11-17T16:15:57Z

The story so far... (in brief!)

A couple of weeks ago my father - who is in his 90s - was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the groin. Nothing else has shown up on CAT scans, but there's also a suspicion (due to severe anaemia that isn't being helped that much by a tranfusion) that something may also be in the bone marrow.

My parents have been offered three basic choices (paraphrasing via my mother); a chemotherapy regime, a radiotherapy regime, or essentially nothing. He's decided to go for the radiotherapy regime, which I suspect is the best decision for someone at his age and relative fragility. I don't think he was ever likely to take the "do nothing" option, he's never really been one to sit about and wait for anything. He's still definitely got all his marbles so the decision on treatment was always up to him.

Right now we don't know when they'll be starting the treatment or the exact details of it - they need to meet with the radiologist first - but it'll probably be quite soon.

On a personal level it's odd. He's in his 90s, so something like this isn't exactly unexpected and he's had serious medical issues before, including a couple of dodgy moles and skin patches that have been removed, but somehow it's still more of a shock to the system than perhaps it should be.

So that's how it stands.

Rambling Thoughts

Well, here goes...