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Feeling Good

3 days of down, but one big day of up, up, up.
OK, RICE sucks, much worse than CHOP.

Chemo Treatment #1

One down, three to go
Well all in all, the first treatment in the hospital with RICE wasn’t too bad. I felt a little woozy when they first set up the IVs, and the low grade naseau is back, but not too bad. One of the medications takes a full 24 hours to go in, and [...]

Chemo Underway

Only a few more treatments to go
This is going to be pretty short, becuase I forgot about the chemo side effects. I went into the ‘infusion center’ today and got shot up with:

Some prednisone (solamide?) like steriod
Saline
BP 16 (the E in RICE)
rituxin

On top of that I took a few pills, two tylenol and two benadrils. [...]

Second Opinion

Well, Tuesday we went out to Stanford and got a second opinion from a world renowned hematologist. Essentially his reccomendations were:

Get a bone marrow biopsy before starting chemo
Use RICE over RCHOP, 4 cycles
Do the bone marrow transplant now rather than later

Actually he explained that it was a stem cell transplant really, so they never actually [...]

Gibbscrew get together

Lots of fun
Yesterday was a pretty great day. I got up and had brunch with Jon and Dopey who went on a banzai trip all the way from Vegas to spend the day. Joe, Ghen, Scum, Ben, and Tom showed up a little later. We hung out for the day doing mostly geeky things like [...]

Cancer Part Duex

Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma
Well, we learned the biopsy results today. As it turns out, good news indeed, it’s the same as last time, Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma. It happens to be the most common type like 30-40% of all lymphomas. It also happens to be curable. And on top [...]

Finally, the Results

I should know pretty much what I’m facing in 45 minutes
I’m leaving for the oncologist’s office in a few minutes now. Soon I’ll know pretty much exactly what I’m up against. Plenty of questions.