Staring Down Chemo
Oct 19th, 2008 Posted in Daily Post | no comment »So you go to your first physical in a while and hope, you know, your cholesterol isn’t high.
You come out with a stack of orders for tests and one word bouncing around your stomach: “cancer.”
That’s what happened to me, anyway. After a CT scan, blood work, and left supraclavicular node biopsy, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After a PET scan, bone marrow biopsy, port insertion, pulmonary function test, and MUGA (heart) scan, I’m almost ready to start six months of ABVD chemotherapy.
