Starting Chemotherapy

I still do not have the final test results but the doctor is confident enough that he will have them today and will start chemotherapy treatment for T-cell Lymphoblastic lymphoma (this is very similar to Delaney’s diagnosis). I am getting admitted today @ KGH and the...

Lots of Action

My oncologist called me yesterday and the bone marrow is clear and normal.  The thoracic surgeon suggested they will repeat the needle biopsy one more time because there is a wait for surgery(required for the more advanced biopsy), and they are pushing them to do that...

The trail is still unmarked!

Today went well, pretty much what I expected. The Doctor is great, a bit quirky and very nice. The biopsy results are inconclusive, the test they could run excluded Thymoma and showed some primitive Tcell blast which he feels is Tcell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, but this...

Doctor Report

I talked to the doctor today,….. he and other doctors had been working on my file and based on the tests it is not Thymoma, he said “that is good news because if it was I am not sure I could have gotten it out”, this was alarming to hear! He said it...

Biopsy

Sorry for the late update, the biopsy went very well. They did not need to go through my lung, instead the needle went on a angle from my left chest in front of my lung and under my breast bone, this reduced the risk of my lung collapsing and poking something by...