And before anyone asks, yes it was an excellent evening, spent remembering “The Immortal Memory”! And I feel very well this morning! I did leave at midnight before I turned into a pumpkin!<\/p>\n
However just before I was due to leave for the ‘do’, I had a ‘phone call from Olivia (the Radiologist SPR) to say that they had reviewed my treatment plan and had decided to modify it. This is because I have already had a lot of radiation (as the precursor to the second autologous transplant) and as radiation damage is cumulative, they have decided to reduce the dose a bit.<\/p>\n
So I am now having 12 treatments (instead of 20) but each one will be 2 Grays instead of 1.8 Grays, so the total dose will be reduced by a third. This should be enough to swat (lovely image – swatting!) the lymphoma while we wait for the GvHd to kick in. Best news is that the treatment schedule will probably be brought forward, so I should start next Wednesday, which means it will be finished by 9 November, so my taste buds have some chance of recovering before Christmas! The reduced dose should mean that the side effects will be less anyway.<\/p>\n
Onwards and upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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