Tag: lymphoma
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154/365 : Breakfast of Champions III
Here we go again. As has become tradition around here, I present to you the box of Tic Tacs I must take every morning for three days during each round of my FCR chemotherapy. This being round 3 of 6, I’m halfway through! My how time flies…
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153/365 : Hazardous material
Into the Medical Daycare for Round three — of six! halfway there, yay! — of FCR chemotherapy to treat my CLL/SLL lymphoma. So it turns out this rituximab injection is very, very nasty stuff. I think if the nurses could wear hazmat suits when dealing with it they’d consider it, and I wouldn’t really blame…
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126/365 : Breakfast of Champions II
Just like my first course of “FCR” chemotherapy, this second course (and all the remaining ones) consists of pills that can be taken at home on days 2 and 3, which is much more convenient than a trip to the hospital for an injection or an IV drip, which I have to do for the…
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125/365 : Not quite a punch in the gut
Today is day 1 of the second round of FCR chemotherapy treatment for my CLL/SLL lymphoma. Unlike in the first round, when the Rituximab was administered in a 6-hour IV drip, this time around the 1,600mg dose is injected directly into my belly fat over the course of about 5 minutes. The nurse had no…
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But I thought I was a Leo
My journey into the world that has previously only ever been inhabited by people that were not me: the world of cancer.
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105/365 : Constant Companion II
Another thing I will have to get used to during this treatment and beyond is constantly taking my temperature. Since Lymphoma weakens the immune system, and chemotherapy pretty much destroys what’s left of it, I’m very susceptible to infections and am ill-equipped to fight them off. I must take my temperature 4 times daily, and…