Today marked a major turning point in the road to recovery. It also marked a major frustration as I had to arrive an hour early for an 11:15 appointment in order to do bloodwork. The appointment was actually 2 hours late so I was pretty steamed initially but the PET scan results negated the initial anger and frustration.
It seemed that the PET scan indicated no uptake of nutrients by the lymphoma site and that the actual area affected had shrunk by almost 50%. Considering that this was the result after one full cycle of chemo and one cycle only partially done, this is indeed good news.
My neutrophil count is still very low which might mean the next chemo might be delayed a week. But it was also similarly low last time and I did recover enough that the chemo went ahead as planned.
I also met with two members of the radiation team who were pretty thorough in their coverage of the procedure and its risks.
A further appointment will happen in 2 weeks when they will target the area to be treated. The actual treatment will most likely commence the week following my eye surgery and will take approximately 4 weeks to complete, i.e. May 12 just may be my final day of treatment if all goes well.
Just a little later than I had hoped but still done in time for me to plan a early Summer getaway.
So that works out to 120 days in total, not too shabby considering I had initially targetted 200 days as the possible length of the treatment cycle. Obviously there will still be some follow up, but I am not complaining.
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