I can’t believe Labor Day weekend is upon us. It feels as though the past three months passed in a matter of minutes despite the fact that this summer has brought several profound experiences where I felt like time stopped altogether. The summer started off on a pretty rough note […]
In the scheme of life after diagnosis, this has been a big week. April 2nd marked one year since I was declared “NED” (or “No Evidence of Disease” for all of you who are fortunately not versed in cancer-speak, and which marks the start of remission for DLBCL). It was a […]
After being released from the hospital and receiving the good news regarding the clear PET scan on Friday, April 10, we spent the weekend reveling in the good news and smiling constantly. Although my neutrophil count (“ANC” = absolute neutrophil count) was too low at 0.6 to proceed with my […]
I ended up spending six nights in the hospital. I was released Tuesday around 5pm after a very long day. Tuesday morning started off on a good note, because I knew I had had made it the required 48 hours of being fever free; however, with each hour I had […]
Last Tuesday was an exhausting day. Less than 24 hours after I had the port placement surgery, we were up early to go UNC Chapel Hill to meet with Dr. Park (Director of Lymphoma Program and focusing on Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) for a second opinion and to determine who I would […]
Pre-cancer, I unaware of the process of evaluation and the time it takes to receive the final diagnosis. Today is 38 days after my initial meeting with Dr. Ingram regarding what I had jokingly calling my “neck balls”, which he thought would be some kind of abnormal lymph nodes and […]
