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MCL and Me: April 2010
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. T 582 The Slippery Slope. Posted by raetsel at Wednesday, April 28, 2010. I was at the hospital for two clinics today, my usual transplant clinic and the endocrinology or hormone clinic to look at my thyroid problems. This meant that along with samples taken for research I had 14 phials of blood taken. ( As Hancock said, that's very nearly an armful.). A Night At the Opera. As the performance was with audio captioning I assumed it was to b...
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MCL and Me: February 2010
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. T 527 Bumbling Along. Posted by raetsel at Thursday, February 25, 2010. I am currently into the second week of being cast adrift by my consultant , to coin a phrase, with my next planned visit to see her not until 24th March. The completed second edit is now available on line at ABC Tales, here. Of the few people who have read it their comments (written or verbal) have been very encouraging. You might have noticed a link on the left hand s...
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MCL and Me: The story so far....
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. The story so far. Posted by raetsel at Thursday, February 28, 2008. I got the results of the biopsy on the 30. May 2007. It was a bit of a shock to say the least. The tests confirmed it was a lymphoma ( a cancer of the lymphatic system / white blood cells ) and the type I had was a sub-type of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma called Mantle Cell Lymphoma. The plan is that because I am young (! And generally fit (! Update 9th December 2008. Fitted on th...
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MCL and Me: August 2010
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. T 704 Sit Rep. Posted by raetsel at Saturday, August 21, 2010. Just a quick shingles situation report. I went to the clinic on Wednesday 18th August and saw the registrar. He had a quick look at the shingles and confirmed the outbreak appears to be over as the lesions have crusted over and started to fade in places. Links to this post. T 697 All that blisters. (PG). Posted by raetsel at Saturday, August 14, 2010. This time last week I was ...
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MCL and Me: January 2010
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. T 500 Two Mini-Milestones. Posted by raetsel at Friday, January 29, 2010. As the title suggest, this post is about two minor milestones, one health related and one not. First the health stuff. Yes I have reached five hundred days post-transplant and since we like big round numbers like that I guess it is worth mentioning. That equates to one year four months and a few days which sounds far less interesting. Since stopping my prednisolone.
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MCL and Me: January 2011
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. T 854 Happy New Year. Posted by raetsel at Tuesday, January 18, 2011. It seems an age ago but New Year's Day was just under 3 weeks past so a Happy New Year to all my readers. Highlights of the year just gone would be self-publishing my novel, Reunion. To raise over £300 for Cure Leukaemia. And getting the vegetable garden established. Http:/ www.abctales.com/story/raetsel/inspirational-mr-green. Links to this post. Follow me on Twitter.
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MCL and Me: February 2011
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. T 877 Gee-Pee Bee-Pee. Posted by raetsel at Wednesday, February 09, 2011. When I went to the transplant clinic a few weeks ago I asked the consultant about coming off the amlodipine blood pressure tablets as I had only been put on them because the ciclosporin caused my BP to rise. This means I am now down to my lowest number of different medications and probably the ones I will be on for life:-. Links to this post. Follow me on Twitter.
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MCL and Me: December 2010
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. T 826 Simon of a Thousand Days. Posted by raetsel at Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Although today is 826 days since my transplant it is also another sort of milestone, 1000 days since I started having treatment for my Lymphoma. Before my transplant there were four rounds of chemotherapy and these began 1000 days ago today. I'm left with an annoying slightly chesty cough but that is going albeit very slowly. Links to this post. Ok maybe I add...
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MCL and Me: July 2010
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All about my treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. My Story So Far. T 673 I Felt a Right Tit. Posted by raetsel at Wednesday, July 21, 2010. I was at the clinic today , well actually a double clinic as it was haematology and then endocrinology. When I saw the haematologist and explained what had happened she was not concerned at all. She didn't examine me but just said it was very common in men that have had transplants and they had written up a paper about it. She said it was called "gynecomastia"...After...