The pain from last night only got worse as I slept. I spent the night sitting up in bed, a position that didn’t hurt as much as others.
After waking up I had the pleasure of finding that all attempts to get out of bed were met with intense pain. Pain that motivated me to stay …
July 20, 2009 – 8:56 pm
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By Tom
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Posted in Diagnostic Phase
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Tagged chemotherapy, diaphragm, diffuse large b-cell, dilaudid, dr norman, lymphoma, lymphoplasmacytic, observation room, ondansetron, spleen
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The surgeon (Dr Kent) called a few hours ago in the middle of a nap; I’d had a Percocet, I was tired, and the loud fan was on. He was politely asked by a 2007 recording of myself to leave a message.
The message was that the initial pathology from the lymph node biopsy confirmed the …
After the meeting with Dr Norman, we headed to our first meeting of the Seattle Cancer Lifeline’s Lymphoma Networking Group. It was so very worth it.
We had a lot of questions that would be difficult for the doctor to answer. Questions that make people who’ve already been through this ideal resources.
We picked up some food …
During the last week, the discomfort in my abdomen has steadily disappeared. By Saturday it was as if nothing was awry at all!
On Sunday things changed.
I developed a pain in the left side of my abdomen when I took deep breaths, leaned in certain directions, or did anything that flexed my abs. In fact, anything …