Well, apparently im cancer free!
This last Dec (2010) I went to the doctor for a bad cough (Im in my late 20's, i never go to the Dr; Im 10ft tall and bulletproof). He told me to go get a chest X ray. i went to an outpatient center, went to the groceries, and took a nap.
When i woke up, i had two voicemails from my Dr, and after i returned the call, i was told to check into the emergency room.
Yadi, Yadi, Yada, they took almost a liter of fluid off my lungs (green colored; needle though the back to enter lung), and i have stage 3 Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(The dark spots show high metabolic activity [using radioactive glucose]. The brain burns a lot of glucose [sugar], and my kidneys are clearing it out of my system into my bladder [not pictured]. So everything other than my brain, my kidneys, and my arm where the injection occured is bad news)
Got chemo all this year, (ABVD), until the B put me in the hospital for 5 NIGHTS. Then they dropped the B. I spent 4/20 in the hospital
Just short of 6 months of chemo.
Fast forward 8 months to this week and my scans are clean. I still have a small mass in my chest, and doc says it will probably always be there (i cant visually see it). I'll get another scan three months from now, and if i can go 2 years from first diagnoses without it coming back, the odds of a return are just slightly higher than the general public's. So Dec 2012 (the end of the mayan calendar) is my date too.
This last Dec (2010) I went to the doctor for a bad cough (Im in my late 20's, i never go to the Dr; Im 10ft tall and bulletproof). He told me to go get a chest X ray. i went to an outpatient center, went to the groceries, and took a nap.
When i woke up, i had two voicemails from my Dr, and after i returned the call, i was told to check into the emergency room.
Yadi, Yadi, Yada, they took almost a liter of fluid off my lungs (green colored; needle though the back to enter lung), and i have stage 3 Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(The dark spots show high metabolic activity [using radioactive glucose]. The brain burns a lot of glucose [sugar], and my kidneys are clearing it out of my system into my bladder [not pictured]. So everything other than my brain, my kidneys, and my arm where the injection occured is bad news)
Got chemo all this year, (ABVD), until the B put me in the hospital for 5 NIGHTS. Then they dropped the B. I spent 4/20 in the hospital
Just short of 6 months of chemo.Fast forward 8 months to this week and my scans are clean. I still have a small mass in my chest, and doc says it will probably always be there (i cant visually see it). I'll get another scan three months from now, and if i can go 2 years from first diagnoses without it coming back, the odds of a return are just slightly higher than the general public's. So Dec 2012 (the end of the mayan calendar) is my date too.
