-=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT
- From: GMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:49:01 -0500
Sandy,
That's GREAT news and I appreciate you sharing it. Congratz to both of
you and I hope it stays away this time. :O)
Peace,
GMan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "SandyLuvsMusic" <sandyluvsmusic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 3:33 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT
> My hubby is a 2-time survivor of non-hodgkin lymphoma, having just fought
> it again from June '06-Oct '07 by first having cervical spine surgery
> where it was found in his C5 vetebrae...........very serious surgery he
> endured where they went in thru the front and back, put in a plate in
> front, and rods in back to do a fusion from C4 to C6, then went thru chemo
> while going to physical therapy at the same time.......he's now doing
> great and back at work (since Oct 8) and he's definitely my hero :-).
> There was a lot of cancer in his father's side of the family. I don't
> know about other types of cancer but with NHL they've made great strides
> since he had it the first time in '96. They now have immunotherapy, where
> part of the chemo is an agent called Rituxan that kicks a person's own
> immune system into overdrive and it goes after a very specific protein
> only contained in the cells of NHL. He was lucky that while still being a
> very sick man, he didn't suffer the worst of the sid
> e effects normally associated with most chemo. Or maybe it was just him??
> Or good nursing?? lol! It actually got rid of a lot of arthritic
> inflammation throughout his body that had been showing up in tests prior
> to the chemo. Amazing huh? He actually suffered the worst side effects
> from the prednisone that he had to take the day of chemo and the next 4
> days than he did from the chemo itself.
> Sandy
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