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...
"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 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....
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Part Five: "Some Day It Will All Be Over"
"Lewis," bellowed the scouse voice, greeted by a hugely misleading smile, I followed him to his room. Inside the room, the Clinical Nurse...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
Part Four: Carelessly Care Free
As I got through treatment numbers, 2 and 3, the months started to tick away, and we were in September already! The treatments had got...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
Part Three: Preluding Thoughts and Cycle One
I'm not going to lie. I thought I would skoosh chemotherapy and be able to continue with my daily life. Work, referee and even on...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
Part Two: More tests than you could shake a stick at...
Fast forward a few weeks from the last blog, I found myself sitting in the Consultant Haematologist's (blood specialist) office...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
Part One: Diagnosis
This shit-show all started on a humid night when on my way back from Tesco, I stopped to take in an amateur game at the park I was...
Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Hodgkin's Lymphoma: A Background
Before I start writing, I suppose the only fair thing to do would be to give you a background to Hodgkin's disease. What is it? Who does...
