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Journals

Good news!

CKH
  • By CKH · Posted November 19, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • My Pet scan shows complete resolution of the neck,mediastinal and hilar adenopathy,with a single small node with mild actitivy remains.I was in shock with this wonderful news! I will have 2 more chemo ...

B-cell lymphoma diagnosis

CKH
  • By CKH · Posted November 13, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • In Sept2009 the cause of several months of progressive shortness of breathe was revealed.After weeks of tests,biopsies,and apower port placement,I was ready to begin my aggressive chemo for lymphoma.I ...

update

KATHEF
  • By KATHEF · Posted November 12, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Stepdad Bob ...

Webcast: The Art of Survivorship with Wendy Harpham

bedep
  • By bedep · Posted November 9, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • Webcast: The Art of Survivorship with Wendy Harpham Wed., 11/11/09, 8:00 pm EST Listen live or later http://bit.ly/4vYgWf Diagnosed with follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1990, Dr. Wendy Harpham has ...

90 days from transplant doctor visit

joyrmttx
  • By joyrmttx · Posted November 6, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • It's already been 90 days from my transplant date and time for rechecks at M D Anderson. My best friend Ruby took me back down to see the transplant oncologist and the lymphoma specialist. We had to start ...

Health-focused market research opportunity in Boston

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted November 5, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • One of Inspire's partners, Schlesinger Associates, a national marketing research company, is looking for one male or female over the age of 18 who has been diagnosed within the past 2 years with non-small ...

80 days from autologous stem cell transplant

joyrmttx
  • By joyrmttx · Posted October 26, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • It's hard to believe that I'm this far out from my transplant already. God is good! The toughest part is staying at home while my immune system is recovering. I can only get out when it's not crowded ...

Bob and Mom update

KATHEF
  • By KATHEF · Posted October 20, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • Stepdad is in the hospital with pneumonia. Mom will get a CAT scan 3 weeks after the end of this round of chemo? (carbo and etoposide) and if it is not working onc. will discontinue all chemo. I am starting ...

Helping Children When Mom or Dad Has Cancer

bedep
  • By bedep · Posted October 20, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • HELPING CHILDREN WHEN A PARENT HAS CANCER Webcast Wed, 10/21, 8:00 pm EST Listen live or later: http://bit.ly/4vYgWf Children of all ages face unique challenges when a parent has cancer. Our guests know ...

scholarships?

gingerv
  • By gingerv · Posted October 13, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • does anyone know of a sarcoid scholarship for children of sarcoid patients. I'm afraid I passed my auto immune lymph involved sarcoid gene to my daughter who just went through Cemo /radiation tx for lymphoma ...

Coping Strategies - Free Webcast 10/14

bedep
  • By bedep · Posted October 13, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • This week on Lymphomation Live: MAPPING THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY (http://bit.ly/4vYgWf or www.lymphomabook.com/LymphomationLive.ht ml) Wednesday October 14, 8 pm (EST) – listen live or later Guest: Dr ...

Less than 3 weeks to go

edinky
  • By edinky · Posted October 4, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • On Oct. 21 we will be going to Atlanta for my 100 day tests--PT scan, blood labs, and Bone Marrow biopsy---had a weak blood lab last week and am a bit nervous about these post transplant test for NHL--have ...

i wonder!!

iacoviello
  • By iacoviello · Posted October 1, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Hi everyone, i am a cancer survivor, follicular non hodgkins,,,,, thrilled to be here dont get me wrong, but sometimes i wonder...... i people who know me ever look at me like a healthy person again.....will ...

Remission again~#4

jbgary
  • By jbgary · Posted October 1, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • Praise the Lord, I got my scan results and am in remission for the fourth time. I will be having two more rounds of chemo and then 2 years of chemo maintenance. I'm thankful for good results again ...

Almost 60 days out from stem cell transplant

joyrmttx
  • By joyrmttx · Posted September 30, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • I woke up this morning to a beautiful day outside and blessed to be feeling better with each day. I still have some issues with fatigue and a bit of weakness which is expected after all my body has been ...

Amyloidosis Support Groups and Blood Diseases

Muriel
  • By Muriel · Posted September 29, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • www.mayoclinic.org/blood-patient-worksho p The second Living with a Blood Disease Symposium: A Comprehensive Workshop for Patients, Family and Friends Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota May 8-9, 2010 Symposium ...

"Better Half" Concluded His Journey- 9/16/09

iva1
  • By iva1 · Posted September 20, 2009
  • 18 replies
  • When the time came that our Earl Ray Huffingham could no longer make the difficult trip to the hospital for transfusions we all knew that his time left with us was limitted and when the last of the blood ...

Just sayin'

KATHEF
  • By KATHEF · Posted September 16, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • My son's father died today. He was a stroke survivor and was smoking in a townhouse with an oxygen tank inside. He suffered 3rd degree burns to his legs and very bad smoke inhalation. If he had survived ...

R.I.P. Rodeo (Thomas Scott)

joyrmttx
  • By joyrmttx · Posted September 12, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • I just found out that a close friend, Thomas that I met through Team Inspire (as Rodeo) passed away on Sunday the 6th. He was a young man, only 23 and leaves behind a wife and 2 year old daughter. He ...

I'm Home!

joyrmttx
  • By joyrmttx · Posted September 12, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • Praise the Lord! The doctors @ MDA released me and we drove back to North Texas from Houston yesterday (9/11/09). It's so good to be back at my own home and in my own bed. After being in Houston for 2 ...

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