Cancer Banter: Hometown Hospitality

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Hometown Hospitality

Turns out my hometown B&B has an open door policy.

The owners were out of town, so they left the door of the cottage unlocked for us.

Read more about it at Open Mouth, Insert Fork.

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Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; October 26, 2009 at 10:42 PM
DNAcinema said...: ciao! ha aperto i battenti il nuovo portale di cinema direttamente dagli studios di Cinecittà. News, recensioni, anteprime, foto, video e tanto altro ancora; e se vuoi collaborare con noi scrivendo recensioni scrivici @ dnacinema@yahoo.it http://dnacinema.blogspot.com/ P.S. Complimenti per il blog, ottimo lavoro! (saresti daccordo per un'affiliazione? ci terrei particolarmente...) A presto! Lorenzo; October 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM
eda said...: 角色扮演,按摩棒,跳蛋,情趣跳蛋,
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G點,性感丁字褲,情趣,角色扮演服,吊帶襪,丁字褲,無線跳蛋,

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情趣按摩棒,.,; November 4, 2009 at 12:34 AM

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On January 26, 2007, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Mantle Cell Lymphoma (blastic variety), a rare, aggressive and treatment-resistant form of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

My team at the City of Hope decided to bring out the big guns - six rounds of Hyper CVAD followed by an autologous stem cell transplant. I bounced back after each round of chemo, but my blood counts didn't.

After four rounds we called chemo quits and started collecting stem cells for the auto stem cell transplant. The harvesting took three tries, two drugs and eight weeks, but I finally eked out the minimum two million stem cells.

After megadoses of chemo, I received my stem cells on November 14 and 15, 2007. I bounced back almost immediately. Best of all, I achieved complete remission from the Mantle Cell Lymphoma.

In January 2008, I was hospitalized for 11 days for chemo-induced pneumonia. I bounced back.

In the summer of 2008, my eosinophils (a component of the white blood cells) rose to dangerous levels and infiltrated my lungs and GI tract. My weight dropped to 105 pounds, and I was incapacitated for nearly three months. Once again, I bounced back.

I continue to make monthly visits to the City of Hope for blood tests and check ups, quarterly visits for maintenance Rituxan and semi-annual visits for scans.

I'm still in remission and have more energy than ever. And about that perfect purse? I keep looking.

Here are a few other things keeping me busy:

My food blog, Open Mouth, Insert Fork

My consulting business, A New Leaf Communications

The Orange Cat, a site for family fun in the San Gabriel Valley

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YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Hometown Hospitality

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