My fight with Mantle Cell Lymphoma, getting my life back, and a few other things!
Mar 31st 2010Getting My Life Back!
Although looking at the sleet falling earlier it is hard to imagine it! But the clocks going forward at the weekend is always welcome! So another busyish ten days. I enjoyed my Birthday last week, with a trip over for dinner with my sister and her family (thank you Anne!). After that, on Friday, I […]
Mar 22nd 2010Getting My Life Back!
Just realised that it is two weeks since the last post – and I suppose that is an indication that there is nothing much to report, either healthwise, or anything else! On the health front, the coldy cough has lingered, but the improvement in the weather seems to be seeing it off – not before […]
Mar 8th 2010Getting My Life Back!
My hope that Friday’s ECP would be equally uneventful was not entirely fulfilled! The kits come in two versions, one, the 125 ml kit takes 125 ml of blood , centrifuges it, stores the lymphocytes and returns the centrifuged blood back. This happens over 6 cycles. The large kit takes 250ml of blood, does the […]
Mar 4th 2010Getting My Life Back!
I’m writing this from my little room in Gassiot House, the hostel for patients staying for consecutive days of treatment – and it is a bit warmer than I have known it in the past! So this afternoon was the first of the two sessions of the ECP – and as usual, it passed uneventfully. […]