Another Reprieve!

I had my 4-month check up today and all was well. The Lymphoma appears to remain stable, no obvious progress or spread and my bloods are looking very good, so I am reprieved a further 4 months until 29 June when we go through the process again.

If I can get through the next checkup and a further one later in the year then I will have achieved 3 years of watch and wait without treatment. Considering my fears of watch and wait at point of diagnosis and thinking my life was about to come crashing to it's sombre end, Lymphoma has not overcome me; there can be life beyond a cancer diagnosis. OK so my cancer remains incurable; it's always going to be there and it is going to worsen and I will need treatment, but life is about the here and now; so relish in the moment. We cannot change the past, we cannot predict the future but we can make the most of our here and now.

On the Colonoscopy front, despite the January procedure coming to an abrupt end due to equipment breakdown, my second Colonoscopy went without a hitch 2 weeks ago (Piccolax and Klean-Prep both remain on my hit list! - dreadful medicine) and I got the all clear today. An outpatients appointment on 24 April should ascertain the next way forward for the ongoing abdominal pain, but I'm relieved to find there's nothing serious that can be attributing to the cause.

Write again soon.
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