Part 29: One Year On: Post hoc ergo propter hoc
One year on. This important milestone has an element of clinical significance. Should a relapse occur now, the disease would be a lot...
"Some Day It Will All Be Over"
Join me in the fight for my life.
Through my own eyes - the chronicles of my battle with Hodgkin's Lymphoma - and hopefully life beyond...
As the Lighthouse Family said in the song High; "when you are close to tears remember that some day it will all be over..."
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Lewis
- Apr 16, 2021
- 4 min
Part Twenty-eight: Glow in the Dark
Three months has passed us by since the last time I provided a memorandum of events, and again it would be amiss of me not to mention...
Lewis
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
Part Twenty-seven: Tomorrow!
The one-hundred day anniversary of October, 13th 2020 has come and gone. One-hundred “tomorrows” have passed me by. The world has changed...
Lewis
- Nov 21, 2020
- 4 min
Part Twenty-six: The Edge of Modern Medicine (II)
Read "The Edge of Modern Medicine (I)" This post is dedicated to my mother, for all she has done and continues to do. Days +1, 2 and 3...
Lewis
- Nov 21, 2020
- 4 min
Part Twenty-five: The Edge of Modern Medicine (I)
This post contains some images that may be distressing to those with a phobia of blood! Besides my recent efforts to match inspirational...
Lewis
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
Part Twenty-four: Proclamatio in finem
Today is a special day; a day that shows that hard exertion always bears fruit; a day that substantiates the notion that bad days do...
Lewis
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
Part Twenty-three: War and Peace
After more than two-hundred forty-eight hours of treatment, losing count of hospital stays, four operations, two cancers, one clinical...
Lewis
- Oct 5, 2020
- 3 min
Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation: A Background
I remember sitting in a National Five Biology Class, learning about stem cells and how they were going to "Cure the Incurable" one day -...
Lewis
- Sep 23, 2020
- 3 min
Part Twenty-two: The Post I Hoped Would Come
I have been relatively quiet over the past few months. My lack of posts has a positive correlation with the return of my overall quality...
Lewis
- Jul 22, 2020
- 4 min
Part Twenty-one: Nivolumab, clinical trials and the benefits of transplant
A bit of a different post this time. As promised previously I have drawn up a post which will explain all about the drug Nivolumab which...
Lewis
- Jul 16, 2020
- 3 min
Part Twenty: One Year On
One year ago, last Thursday - Tuesday, 9th July 2019, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Funnily enough, it was the 9th of July...
Lewis
- Jul 9, 2020
- 3 min
Part Nineteen: The coup d’état is coming
Cycle two starts calmly. Room one of Ward A12 not only comes with five bars of 4G but a view which incorporates a vast green serenity of...
Lewis
- Jun 11, 2020
- 2 min
Part Eighteen: Hokey Cokey - Hospital Edition
It's reached that infamous point—day 16 of the Cycle. Sixteen days since that first drip, dripped. It's at this point; the toxic drugs...
Lewis
- Jun 11, 2020
- 2 min
Part Seventeen: IVE explained
IVE is a chemotherapy regime that is used to treat refractory and relapsed Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, as well as certain Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma....
Lewis
- May 20, 2020
- 3 min
Part Sixteen: IVE got a plan
On the contrary to last weeks post, which arguably showed the worst in our Universal Health Care system, this weeks post shows possibly...
Lewis
- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
Part Fifteen: The Post I Hoped Would Never Come
Remember that lump I had on my neck that they scanned? Well… As the lump grew, I continually sent warnings to my haematologist that it...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
Part Fourteen: Radio Silence
It has been a while, so I thought it to be incumbent of me to provide an update on the latest. I have been “shielding” myself over the...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Part Thirteen: The killer four-minutes...
I started writing this post on Monday. It was going to go something like this... "Yep, as you probably guessed from the title, I couldn't...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 1 min
Part Twelve: The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back...
I'm sitting here in Room 3 of Ward B31 at Forth Valley Royal Hospital. Yesterday I had the last half of my thyroid removed. Similar to...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Background
Just like I did with HL, I suppose another educational post on PTC is a necessary evil... A Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC) is the most...
