Good news! The scan showed that while there is still a little bit of activity, the amount is much less than the last scan, showing that the incoming immune system is continuing to fight the good fight!<\/p>\n
Although I did have a warm feeling about the result, I’m sure that you can imagine how enormously relieved I feel to get confirmation! I saw the pictures and there is just a small dot adjacent to my spine, where previously there had been a realatively large mass leading up alongside – absolutely tremendous!<\/p>\n
So what now? Well, I will probably have another PET scan in a few months time, and I still have the residual GvHd (a small price to pay) but at last I feel I can really start thinking about the future. Although I have been making some plans (the diving in October for example) I now feel that they are a distinct robability, rather than a hopeful possibility, and I may be able to return to work in August. This has important consequences for the actual job that is being held open for, as it is likely that could have fallen through if the scan result had not been as good. So at last I feel that I might be getting my life back. I only wish my anonymous donor could share in it!<\/p>\n
Meanwhile back in the clinic I saw my fellow patient Mark, who you will recall had his transplant at about the same time as me. He was looking well, but his transplant has not been quite so successful so he may have to have another in September. Mark, we all on your side – hang on in there and enjoy the holiday you have planned.<\/p>\n
City Hospital were on hand to film the news – that film is being edited this afternoon to form the final bit of the ‘feature’ which will be shown tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n
It has been a long journey (7 years and 3 transplants since diagnosis) but there really is the prospect that the lymphoma might be beaten. I don’t want to count chickens before they have hatched – mantle cell lymphoma is notoriously difficult to erradicate – but… <\/p>\n
Onwards and Upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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