UPDATE May 21, 2009

Thought I would give ya’ll an update on my status.
I was released from the hospital on Sunday afternoon about 5:00 PM after four days of chemo.  The first two days was relatively uneventful, the last two days were not fun at all.  Although I only threw up only once, it was the mother of all [...]

Just returned home May 17, 2009

Things are just fine.  Other than feeling a little “edgey,”  my health seems to have held up pretty well.  Day one was very nervous for me, They had to install a PICC line  from inside my inner right bicep and then feed a tube up in to the chest cavity.  Late day 1 they began [...]

Biopsy Results May 17, 2009

It’s now official.
I just got a call from Dr. Robertson at Summit Cancer Care here in Savannah who informed me that my biopsy results from Friday, May 1st, are, indeed, positive for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.  Certainly, not what I wanted to hear.
R-ICE chemo begins this Thursday morning at 9:45 AM at Memorial Hospital on [...]

7.27.2008 Update July 28, 2008

Dear Family,
For the most part, it’s been a good week this week.  I was actually able to work an entire five-day week.  Remarkable.  For some reason though, unlike the past,  I have been unable to totally shake the nausea and intestinal issues, but I am functioning, nonetheless.
Monday I met with Dr. Robertson.  Although my blood [...]

07.20.2008 Update July 21, 2008

Hello again ya’ll.
I am happy to report that I am feeling much better than I was this time last week.  I re-read the email that I sent out last Sunday and it was obvious  that I was a bit wierded out.  However, I know why.  The next day I went in to Summit Cancer Care [...]

Medical Update July 13, 2008

Hello dear family,
Sorry for the not keeping ya’ll posted on things, but this has not been a good week.  I have been ill from the chemo earlier this week, but, even more impacting, is the fact that I just seem to have sunk into an almost overbearing sense of depression.  I am hoping that by [...]

Another Medical Update from Mitch June 20, 2008

Hello family.
Looks like another sleepless night for me.  A good nights rest seems
like such a long time ago.  In fact, it was a long time ago.  What I
wouldn’t give for a Kings Down mattress right now.  (only the most
comfortable mattress ever, right Linda Gail?)
Well, as ya’ll know, Robin and I returned to MD Anderson in [...]

I made it through the weekend okay May 5, 2008

Dear Family,
As most of ya’ll are aware, I had my first round of chemo last week.  Although things started out okay, Thursday and Friday were rough, to say the least.  I had this constant nagging sense of nausea to the point I couldn’t think of anything else.  Friday was particularly rough.  However, by Saturday I [...]

I made it through the weekend okay May 5, 2008

Dear Family,
As most of ya’ll are aware, I had my first round of chemo last week.  Although things started out okay, Thursday and Friday were rough, to say the least.  I had this constant nagging sense of nausea to the point I couldn’t think of anything else.  Friday was particularly rough.  However, by Saturday I [...]

Tomorrow is the day April 29, 2008

Just a quick note to let ya’ll know I will begin the wretched “ball-head inducing” chemo therapy tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9:30 AM at Summit Cancer Care here in Savannah.  The Port-A-Chath was installed in my chest last Tuesday at Savannah Vascular and I went through Gamma Globulin infusion last Wednesday (for 5 whole hours, no [...]