Bye Bye Bubbles

Met with my oncologist yesterday and discussed if it was time to go back on maintenance and see if the immune system can handle the Rituxan again.  Bloodwork showed good numbers for the immune system, so we decided to postpone til October to go back to the Rituxan.  Naturally, the long term goal is to stay in remission and no have any recurrence of the lymphoma.  So October it is, and hopefully it won't hit me too hard since I have been off of it since October 2011.  Will have my next PET scan before it too.  All is well, thankful for this.

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Bubbles did

Latest round of immunoglobulins, aka Bubbles, all went well.  I was pretty exhausted from my day job, so I kinda snoozed through this one.  Meet with my oncologist today, discussed going back on the rituxan or staying on immunoglobulins.   His concern is it will crash my immune system again, so he is going to do some bloodwork at the end of the month and see if it looks good enough to go back on the maintenance drip.  Exciting day.

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Bubble, look for the eye at the top, kinda cool

All Clear Again!

Tuesday I got the results of my latest PET scan.  All clear!!  Cruising on through this year!!

Just gotta keep on keeping it on!!

Bubbles again!

So I have my latest round of bubbles yesterday.  All went well.  The only thing I missed was my PET scan.  Now, I just don't understand how they can schedule you 3 days out and on a Saturday.  Sometimes you just miss checking the messages and this time it caused me to miss the appointment.  So I have to wait till after I get back from Florida to get my scan done.

Doing good, just keeping up with the treatments.

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Bubbles again

So, I guess I forgot to post in April, but I had another round of bubbles which went well as usual.  Yesterday was round 6 of bubbles, also known as IVIG, or simply put immunoglobulins.  As expected, all went well.  Next month I will have my next PET scan, and I anticipate a NED result.  Thats No Evidence of Disease for this who may be wondering.  So all is good.

Ankle is doing better, but my elbow is having some issues now, a little bursitis (tennis elbow).  Got an MRI next week, so we'll see.  Not taking any chances, same arm that had the big tumor in it, so getting it checked out.

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Bubbles times 6

Round 4 Bubbles again

So yesterday was my next visit to the oncologist and more immunoglobulins were in order.  Unfortunately, it didn't come easy.  Had an unusually high blood pressure when I got there.  My PCP changed my meds and not sure that is a contributor or not, but either way, kinda grabs your attention.  Had no problem with the immunoglobulins.  Definitely a lot more fun watching the bubbles form in the glass bottle.  Hence why I call it bubbles.  Will go back in a month, scheduled for more bubbles, but hopefully getting my immune system back on track and fighting hard.  My ankle is finally starting to feel better from my work move and hope to start getting into the gym to get back into shape!

immunoglobulins

 

Third round of immunoglobulins

Today, another round of immunoglobulins were in order.  All went well as usual.  Lab work showed improved numbers, so all looks good.  Feeling great and hoping to get back to the gym soon.   Till the next round.....

More Bubbles!