my husband was told he had non hodgkins lyphoma on christmas eve and that it possible t cell we were told he would be started on reduced chemo to start with then moved onto full dosage he is so ill with it back in february he caught chicken pox and was admitted to hospital again very ill he has lost so much weight 3 weeks later he became worse rushed into hospital he had got peumonia another week in hospital thing were touch and go for awhile but he pulled through it they suspended his chemo because he was just to weak unfortunatly 3 weeks after this he became unwell again and rushed back into hospital the peumonia had come back he was in critical care this time but once again he pulled through he is just so weak chemo still on hold as his platlet level is to low and they want to wait another 2 weeks hopfully for him to get stronger, i am out of my mined with worry. he had a ct scan back in february and things had shrunk by almost half so we know the chemo is workoing
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Hi Sue, you and your husband are really going through the mill with this aren't you.
I had the news last week that I have just gone into remission from non-hodgkins lymphoma after being diagnosed in November 2008. I was really ill with pneumonia before my final diagnosis came through and this had to be cleared by i/v antibiotics before my chemo started but was lucky that it didn't come back once treatment started, I only ended up back on antibiotics once.
By half way the mass in my chest was about a quarter gone but by the end of chemo the glands had gone back to normal size. I hope that this will be encouraging for you with things shrinking by almost half for your husband.
