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...
"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
- 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...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Part Eleven: "The Fourth Official indicates..."
Just as you think you the game is done, dead, buried - up pops the board and the stadium announcer goes "The fourth official indicates a...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Part Ten: Dr. Google, MB ChB
It's now been three weeks since I got a right-sided thyroid lobectomy, in layman's terms - they removed the right side of my thyroid....
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Part Nine: There is ALWAYS a but...
"Hi, Lewis," said an enthusiastic voice on the other side of the phone. My heart rate must have far exceeded; it's 201 bpm maximum. "We...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
Part Eight: Late Nights and Dark Days
Cycles two, three and most definitely four were undoubtedly some of the darkest days I've had. Side effects from treatment started to...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Part Seven: esc-BEACOPDac explained
As promised - an understanding of escalated BEACOPDAC. Firstly escalated (esc) means that all the doses are increased from the original...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
Part Six: The Realisation of Mortality
I must've drifted off listening to techno, somehow. Maybe I was dreaming of being in my favourite nightclub - you know where that is....
