rachel2000's Cancer Blog

Cancer Blog Entries Archived by Date

•  2009 (14)
  
  
  •  October (3)
    •  about new york... Hey, don't know what happened, but if anyone else was having problems reading "New York or Bust," it's back up and running. It's about my new treatment plan, my doctor, and my new city! I hope you'l...
    
    
    
    •  New York or Bust Howdy. Got an update for you, folks, thought some of you might be interested. In my last blog I had said we would be trying to go to MD Anderson in Houston, as they had several Hodgkin's Lymphom...
    
    
    
    •  Hasn't been a good week. Let me start off by telling everyone that physically I feel good. My appetite has been great and I’ve gained weight over the last two months that I’ve been on Lenalidomide. I’ve felt perky, pa...
    
    
    
  •  September (1)
    •  Cranky and bored I’m OK. Still alive. No Hodgkin’s symptoms have cropped up, so hopefully that means the Lenalidomide is working(?). The tumors are still there, although they seem slightly smaller- hard to tell...
    
    
    
  •  August (4)
    •  Take a drink I’ve had an interesting week. At the beginning of last week, I started to feel really shaky and weak, so that I barely got out of bed until Friday. It seemed like it would get better if I ...
    
    
    
    •  One week swallowed, more to come Howdy, all. I’ve been taking the lenalidomide pills now for a week and am still in one piece. So far, none of the nasty side effects have popped up, so (without jinxing myself) I may be in the c...
    
    
    
    •  Good news? Good news at the doctor‘s office today. I was accepted into the Lenalidomide study group and I’ll be starting Friday. I’m back with my normal “onchie” instead of the transplant or radi...
    
    
    
    •  Cancer, I really think we should stop seeing each other. It's not you, though, it's me. No, nevermind. It's you. Radiation was a blast; I had five shocking weeks of it in total and it really wasn’t the worst experience at all. I don’t want to say I enjoyed it, but the appointments were quick and painless....
    
    
    
  •  May (2)
    •  Change of plans Okay, so I'm not getting the stem cell transplant right now, as I had expected... I was going to check myself in for the procedure on Wednesday and met with the doc beforehand. She had schedul...
    
    
    
    •  Keeping Busy Hello, fellow cancer enthusiasts (ha) I am mostly done with my busiest hospital week ever. I've been coming and going from Barnes daily for bone marrow growth shots (to kick the stem cells int...
    
    
    
  •  April (1)
    •  the end is near... Today I received my last dose of chemo before I go in for the transplant. I had an appointment with the transplant doctor and felt really positive after it was over. It feels good to know that the...
    
    
    
  •  March (3)
    •  Hooray for good docs! I heard the results of my PET yesterday; all good news! Things are shrinking up (shrinking fabulously, as the doc put it). In fact, the tumors are GONE in most areas! You can't beat that. Actua...
    
    
    
    •  blahg blog I had another PET scan today (love those). This one is to determine whether or not I'm ready for the transplant. It was uneventful... 2nd to last NGD chemo tomorrow. I'll hear the results of the PET ...
    
    
    
    •  maiden blog This is my first blog ever, folks! Hey, all I wanted to start posting to let everyone know how I was doing. I've meant to do this all along but my lazy streak is heightened these days. At one poi...
    
    
    

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