So now it's back to Square Two in my fight against lymphoma. I had a cycle of chemo treatments in Clearwater on May 26-28, and will have another cycle on June 16-18. Then, testing at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa to see if my vital organs can withstand what I'll call the Neutron Bomb treatment. If so, they'll harvest stem cells from my blood stream and I will get that treatment at Moffitt in early to mid August. I will be in the hospital at Moffitt for one to three weeks while the stem cells work on repopulating the bone marrow, then must find a place to live in seclusion within 15 minutes of Moffitt, with a live-in companion, for another 30 days or so. When I get home, I must avoid the office and people for another month or so, which brings me down to October before life will begin getting back to normal. I may be susceptible to infections for months afterwards, so if you find yourselves asking "who was that masked man?" - it might have been me.
All of this seems to have coincided with baseball season and the Rays are doing exceptionally well, so I am looking forward to watching the Rays becoming the Boys of October and winning the World Series this time. I am very happy to have gotten my travel "bug" adjusted, having seen all of my beautiful children and grandchildren at least once over the past three months.
As I said to a friend from high school who is going back for treatment for prostate cancer to see if it spread elsewhere in his body, getting old is not as much fun as they said it would be!
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