Posted by David Poncelow
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:09:18 GMT | 5 comments
I got back from my New York trip on Saturday night- it went better than I could have hoped. This last round of chemo has been the best yet. It started with my blood counts: we had known since I started chemo that there was a possibility that I would be too prone to infection to be able to risk the plane trip. My oncologist recommended that we continue to plan for the trip, but understand that we might have to cancel at the last minute. It all hinged on my white blood cell counts. They came back in the midrange of normal. That’s not something I would have expected.
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Posted in Cancer
Posted by David Poncelow
Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:12:27 GMT | 4 comments
I put some new pictures up on the flickr gallery - my dive buddy got a new camera and provided me the pics, so I’ve got some underwater shots of the last dive I did before I started chemo. There is also a shot of my new bald pate.
Posted in Cancer, Scuba
Posted by David Poncelow
Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:57:40 GMT | 3 comments
Well, I shaved off my hair and my beard a couple nights ago. I was just looking too much like Bill the Cat to keep going on that way- every morning in the shower more and more hair was coming out, leaving unsightly bald patches.
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Posted in Cancer
Posted by David Poncelow
Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:45:15 GMT | 6 comments
I’ve been thinking a lot about statistics this past week. This cancer I’ve got is pretty uncommon, so I keep digging to try to find how uncommon it is, how unlikely that I ended up with this. The best I’ve found so far came from a study that my surgeon gave me a copy of. It’s a thirty year study, covering around 400,000 breast cancer cases. Of those, about 2000 are men, 22 under 35.
I also keep looking for statistics on my ‘chances’. I’ve found everywhere from 67% to 85% for my cancer and my stage. I’ve found graphs, charts, and mortality data. I’ve read many, many reports and study abstracts, and I’ve distilled it all down to what that data means to me.
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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Posted in Cancer
Posted by David Poncelow
Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:38:02 GMT | 1 comment
I was able to borrow a friend’s scanner last night to scan in the image from my bone scan. I just put it up in the gallery (the link is on the righthand sidebar). I tried scanning the CT images as well, but they didn’t come out. I’ll try doing that another way in the next few days.
Posted in Cancer