Posted by I have been back in Los Angeles for 4 months after living a year and a half in Warsaw Poland. We had planned on staying longer in Warsaw in the hopes that I could find the treatment I so desperately needed but alas it was not meant to be. After being denied treatment at…Read more »
Posted by We are on our way home. Where is home you may ask? Home, for Ginny and I is not a house or an address, if it is then we are currently homeless because we have neither. Home is not where my heart is, if home is where I find my heart then I am home…Read more »
Posted by Dear Face Book, I’m so sorry but we need some time apart, its just not working out anymore. Don’t worry it’s not you it’s me. We have grown apart over the years and its time for me to step away and live my life without you. I know you have been there when I needed…Read more »
Posted by Having traveled from the U.S. my wife and I arrived in Warsaw just over a year ago at the beginning of November. After taking some time to settle in to our apartment we decided it was time to go out and explore the city. Our first day of exploring Warsaw happened to be on November…Read more »
Posted by Last week I had to go to the hospital here in Warsaw Poland due to a severe pain in my right leg. Based on an experience from the year before when I had a blood clot in my arm following surgery for thyroid cancer I was fairly certain that once again I had a blood…Read more »
Posted by After finishing my second round of chemotherapy for stage 4 Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma at a Los Angeles California hospital my wife and I took an elevator down to the pharmacy to stand in line so I could pick up my white blood cell booster shots. As I wandered in sporting a blue and yellow mohawk…Read more »
Posted by Christmas Eve 2015 I was diagnosed with stage 4 Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma, based on this diagnosis I was prescribed 6 months of FCR based chemotherapy. Before I started my chemo treatments I was warned that we had to keep our apartment very clean and germ free and that living with pets during chemo was a potential health…Read more »
Posted by During the last few months of my chemotherapy treatment and the many months that followed I had severe brain fog. My concentration, vision and short term memory were extremely affected by the chemo drugs. I found that I was unable to watch TV because I couldn’t concentrate enough to understand the context of what I…Read more »
Posted by Weeks after being diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s immunoblastic high grade lymphoma I was told that if I wanted to live that I would have to undergo 6 month of chemotherapy treatment. I was informed that the treatment that was prescribed was the strongest possible dose available and that my body may not be able to…Read more »
Posted by On Christmas Eve 2015 I was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s immunoblastic high grade lymphoma, a couple of weeks later my doctor suggested that I should start 6 months of chemotherapy treatment as soon as possible. Being a newly diagnosed cancer patient is extremely stressful and it is difficult to even think straight let alone to make the…Read more »
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