375supermag
10-14-2020, 02:51 PM
Hi...
I had my four month check up at the oncologist yesterday as a follow-up to my last bout with cancer in 2016.
Blood work continues to look good with no apparent recurrence. I continue to be in what the oncologist terms total remission from Burkitt's-like lymphoma.
Even better news is that my checkups are extended now to six months.
Not too bad for someone who was declared terminal in 2016. Faith and prayer and good doctors saved me for the third time.
First time was in 1977 with what was diagnosed at the time as non Hodgkin's lymphoma. My current doctor seems to think it was Hodgkin's. No matter...I survived, that's the important thing.
Second time was in 2012, when I was declared terminal by two separate doctors with salivary gland cancer that had spread into the lymph nodes in my neck. A third doctor, a specialist in head and neck surgery, had developed a robotically controlled surgical technique which together with some serious radiation therapy saved my life.
So while I have endured a lot of surgeries, radiation treatments and very nasty chemotherapy regimens, I am still hanging on and for the shape I am in, I'm not in too bad of shape...all things considered.
I had my four month check up at the oncologist yesterday as a follow-up to my last bout with cancer in 2016.
Blood work continues to look good with no apparent recurrence. I continue to be in what the oncologist terms total remission from Burkitt's-like lymphoma.
Even better news is that my checkups are extended now to six months.
Not too bad for someone who was declared terminal in 2016. Faith and prayer and good doctors saved me for the third time.
First time was in 1977 with what was diagnosed at the time as non Hodgkin's lymphoma. My current doctor seems to think it was Hodgkin's. No matter...I survived, that's the important thing.
Second time was in 2012, when I was declared terminal by two separate doctors with salivary gland cancer that had spread into the lymph nodes in my neck. A third doctor, a specialist in head and neck surgery, had developed a robotically controlled surgical technique which together with some serious radiation therapy saved my life.
So while I have endured a lot of surgeries, radiation treatments and very nasty chemotherapy regimens, I am still hanging on and for the shape I am in, I'm not in too bad of shape...all things considered.