My husband Matt (31) was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma (Nodular Sclerosis, Stage 4B) on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009. This Blog is intended to share our family's experience and to keep our extended families and friends informed.
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Matt received chemo treatment # 8 on Tuesday. His white blood count was back to an acceptable range. Although the treatment went as usual, Matt threw up for the very first time that evening. His skin still keeps getting...
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Matt was supposed to receive chemo treatment #8 yesterday, but was sent home after they discovered that his white blood cell count was too low. Chemo treatments, which attack fast replicating cells, attack white blood...
Thursday, October 30th, 2009
So, I don't know if the kids had swine flu or some other virus last week... but now I am sick. This is day three with a fever, aches, headache and a nasty cough. I would say I have swine flu. Since, it feels like the flu...
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
AMAZING!!!!
Matt's PET Scan came back clean - absolutely clean!!!
...after only 3 months of treatments, even the Oncologist was surprised. He said he figured that it would be pretty good, since Matt had been doing much...
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Matt had Chemo # 6 last week (Tuesday Oct. 6th). It went as usual.
However, on Wednesday he didn't have to leave the house to get his Neulasta shot. Nope, instead Matt stayed home and gave himself the Neupogen shot. I'm so...
