No real new news to report...fighting something of a cold or allergies over the weekend but did manage to get together with another couple for dinner Saturday night and had a pretty decent weekend overall. It's funny when you have something like this, it really becomes the 800 lb. gorilla in the room; nobody necessarily wants to talk about it, but inevitably you do. We spent a lot of time at dinner discussing it and it was nice to talk about; kind of allows Kristina and I to clear our heads about it and go over it with other people who care. We spent a lot of time talking about other, "normal", stuff too - it was a nice night.
I had a weird dream too this weekend; the Yankees got so desperate for pitching that they paid some guy, who's almost 45, $4.5 million a month, to come pitch for them - once he gets back in shape. Do you think Steinbrenner and Cashman just did the payday by using an age-factor algorithm? "He's gonna be 45 soon, lets give him an even $4.5 million a month, poetic justice." Maybe he and his son Koby will get to suit up together on Father's Day this year...pretty cool in the novelty department, but I can't say I'm too scared to have the Sox hitters face a guy who's actually older than both teams GM's, and may well be old enough to remember Woodstock - mind you this is a professional athlete, pitching for one of the most famous franchises in sports. Steinbrenner is desperate, and you can see why.
With nothing to really report I decided to look at Hodgkin's itself, find out more about it, etc. The lovely gentlemen in the upper left is Thomas Hodgkin, who did much of the early legwork to identify and treat the disease which was ultimately named for him.
For more on the time line of the disease you can go here.
For more on the man himself, you can go here.
Obviously I am learning a lot about this stuff as I post here, and I have found that maintaining this site has forced my hand - driven me to seek more education and knowledge on the subject, and truly helped me be a better informed patient. Hopefully I can point people in the right direction if they too choose to try and seek out information on the disease and treatment; as I have said from the beginning, there is some satisfaction in not only keeping people posted, but also in providing some education on this disease and how it is treated.
As always I am extremely thankful for your support and I will do my very best to update this site regularly.
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