Like I said below, it was official this morning that it was hodgkin’s again.\u00a0 The treatment is a new chemo treatment for two or three cycles (one treatment is a cycle), they don’t know exactly until they start and also depends on how quick they can get a response from my insurance about the stem cell infusion.\u00a0 The treatment is three days in a row for 5 hours each but is out patient, so I’ll be going home after it each day.\u00a0 It’s three chemo drugs that will be going into my port and one oral drug that does some kind of kidney support because the chemo is rough on them.\u00a0 The fourth day I go in for some shot that increases my white blood cells, think that’s it on the fourth day.\u00a0 The chemo treatments are three weeks apart.\u00a0 Three to five weeks after the last chemo treatment I’ll be inpatient for some kind of other chemo treatment and then right after (or during or something) they’ll do the stem cell infusion and then I’ll be in the hospital for at least a week to recover.\u00a0 I can’t remember what he said, it was at least a week but he may have said a week or 2 or may have said 2 or 3 weeks.<\/p>\n
Having hodgkin’s didn’t hit me today, that already happened the last appointment with Dr. Dragon after the recent PET scan.\u00a0 My anticipation for how much the treatment is going blow is what’s hitting me some…\u00a0 I mean, whatever, I’ll get through it and we’ll see what happens, but ya, it’s going to suck.\u00a0 Almost forgot to say that it was scheduled to start Monday (so it will be this coming Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday).<\/p>\n
Oh, and I don’t know if I said I had an MRI, can’t remember and don’t feel like looking.\u00a0 So ya, I had an MRI after the PET scan and I have a bone lesion between the femur and the ball that goes into the hip joint thing.\u00a0 That’s something that hodgkin’s can make happen apparently, bone lesions I mean.\u00a0 That’s why my hip hurts apparently, and having a bone lesion makes it easy to fracture apparently.\u00a0 So I’m probably going to get some crutches to use while it’s healing, which should start after the first chemo but could take a number of weeks to heal he said.<\/p>\n
Edit:<\/strong> Forgot they were going to do radiation to the areas that present or however he said, so my pelvic\/hip area basically.\u00a0 I think it’s going to be just before the stem cell infusion but I can’t really remember.\u00a0 I don’t know, as long as I get the gist of what’s going on and know where to be and the expected effects that’s fine.\u00a0 I mean, as long as the doctor knows what’s up, that’s enough, I don’t need to know the ins and outs of everything (and don’t really care about knowing every little detail).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like I said below, it was official this morning that it was hodgkin’s again.\u00a0 The treatment is a new chemo treatment for two or three cycles (one treatment is a cycle), they don’t know exactly until they start and also depends on how quick they can get a response from my insurance about the stem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodgkins-lymphoma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqH02-3c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}