#lymphoma

[rofax]

Since I'm "on the other side" of cancer for now, I feel like I can make jokes about it without jinxing everything.

#ro talks #cancer #cancer cw #lymphoma #hodgkins lymphoma #this is all in good fun #i am not ragging on anyone who said any of these things #unless you told me about your cousin's bff's aunt who totally died from lymphoma #then you can go fuck yourself

[vaspider]

It's time to talk about Mila. At the end, there will be pictures and video.

Monthly update!

Well, I guess it's every 3 weeks, really. That's the first adjustment - Mila's treatments have been adjusted to every 21 days. They're working and keeping her steady right now, which is all we can ask.

The oncologist was pleased with her status when he saw her last Friday. She took her most recent chemo treatment at home on Saturday & will be getting bloodwork on this coming Saturday, which is also Evie's birthday.

That was one of my goals - I really hoped she'd make it to Evie's birthday, which is a few weeks before her own birthday in the last week of November. I'm really hopeful at this point that Mila will get to turn 7. (Trying not to hex it by thinking about it too hard, tbh.)

We're in Miracle Time now. This is time that we KNOW we wouldn't have had without your help - six weeks is really the outside of how long dogs survive on just steroids - and it feels like a miracle.

She's pigging out every day, and we're letting her. As long as she wants to eat, we're gonna let her, and boy, she WANTS to eat. Mila is getting a chubby tummy and it's the best thing. She's happy and hungry and pretty much only wants for Emet to lay on the shop couch so she can lay on their chest.

We're gonna treasure that.

I mean, look at this tummy.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I'm going to adjust the goal upwards for Mila's next treatment. If you can help, wonderful. If not... thank you. You all have helped us so much.

#lyudmila pupperchenko #pet illness #pet death #pet cancer #cancer #lymphoma #mutual aid #donations #gofundme #dog illness #image description requested

[murtagh-thorn]

After dealing with lymphoma for 3 years, I’m cancer freeeeeeee

#non fandom #personal #cancer #fuck cancer #lymphoma #follicular lymphoma #cancer survivor #cancer survival

[gentlelarkspur]

This is my cat Hank. He's 9 years old and I love him like the stars.

Hank was diagnosed with lymphoma this week. It took about a month of blood tests, ultrasounds, a cytology, and an oncology visit.

I adopted Hank when I was in the middle of a mental health crisis, and I just needed something to give me a reason to be here. I drove from Los Angeles to Riverside CA because I had seen a gorgeous long-haired lilac pointed kitten that was going to be at a rescue event. By the time I got to the event, that kitten had already been adopted, but I stuck around to look at the others. My sister had come out to help me choose a kitten, and she was actually the one who picked up Hank. He crawled all over my sister and I and sat on my shoulder purring, and that's when I decided to take him home.

My sister is also the one who named him. We were both watching The Vlogbrothers together, and she named him Hank because he was curious, friendly, and loved "talking". He hates being alone, and you can always find him in a five foot radius of me or mom.

It doesn't matter what you're doing, he needs to be the center of attention. Which is only fair, I mean look at him:

Hank has seen me through a severe mental health crisis, my mother's stroke, two years of treatment for an autoimmune disorder that wrecked my body, the worst of the pandemic, and my bother's suicide. He means the world to me. The fact that a bunch of imaginary numbers in a computer somewhere can determine whether he even gets a CHANCE to beat this cancer is a horrific, awful thing that is tearing my heart apart. I can't do this alone.

Please reblog this.

Please share it.

If you're in a place to do so, please consider donating.

I know he's just one small cat in a world full of people and animals in need. But I'm the only voice this little furball has, so I'm pleading on his behalf: please help me help him have a fighting chance. There's no guarantee he can beat it, but without treatment then there's no chance at all. I am doing everything I can, but I can't do it alone.

Thank you.

#please share #emergency #urgent #pet care #cats of tumblr #hank the cat #fuck cancer #lymphoma #cute cat #help me please #animal help #i need your help #viralpost #cute animals #pets #adorable #seriously I don't know what to put in the tags to get people to look at this so please help me by reblogging #I am literally begging for my cats life #I don't know what else to do at this point

[dark-paraddis3]

It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever

#lymphoma #immunotherapy #stay strong

[ask-a-vetblr]

Well, my cat passed away a month ago and I would like to understand what happened to her (or at least just understand what a gastrointestinal lymphoma could've done to make her have a systematic inflammation issue in her endocrine system.) I couldn't get a straight answer from any of the vets I asked. They only said it was the cancer. I just want to understand. I've been researching and I didn't find anything like that. She was on antibiotics.

Hi, Sueanoi here.

Condolences to your loss. It is incredibly difficult to give a straight answer on a specific cause of death without necropsy (veterinary's word for animal autopsy). However, I could attempt to guess.

Lymphoma, or any cancer at all really, is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells. Anywhere that it grows, it disrupt the normal function of that organ. Many cancers are notorious for being able to spread to other organs than its origin. Thus, if it jumps from GI tract to ... let's say pancreas, (which is one nearby endocrine organ), it can cause a catastrophic failure of everything that the pancreas is supposed to do.

Lymphoma is already a cancer of immune cells. It is tightly linked to inflammation. Blood result can look indistinguishable from a sepsis, unless a manual blood smear is performed so the morphology of the white blood cells are checked.

I'm so sorry, but there are so many ways a body can fail in a case like this. This is the closest guess I could provide, I hope this will help you find some closure.

#lymphoma #cancer

[zeehasablog]

Bonus miwackulous tye for @clove-pinks

Handsome young gentleman from the late 1850s with a large tie, and possibly some eyeglasses dangling from a fob-chain on his waistcoat. Source: eBay (here the dumb seller has tried to increase the value by saying the gentleman is "identified", but clearly the writing only indicates where the picture was made)

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Reminder friends: our cat, Thomas, has lymphoma and we are raising money to help pay for the expensive chemotherapy treatments. If you're interested in contributing, please either tip me via this post, or submit a donation here: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/raise-for-thomas

#miwackulous tye monday #bonus miwackulous tye #because it's not monday anymore #clove-pinks #gentleman #tie #eyeglasses #fob-chain #1850s #1800s #victorian #thomas the cat #thomas #fundraiser #lymphoma #cancer #cat #raising funds

[bidoctor]

Hey all, I just wanted to share this GoFundMe campaign organized by my sister, for my dad - he was diagnosed with Primary CNS Lymphoma and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. If you could share or donate, it would be incredible ❤️ thank you!

#personal #lymphoma #illness #cancer #gofundme

[taintedglass]

"My family was untouchable. There was a bubble-shaped barrier around us that nothing could penetrate. It seemed like all the bad things happened around us instead of to us. Until a six letter word burst the barrier and attacked. It felt like the world had dropped beneath my feet. Cancer was something that happened to other people. Yet somehow, it had found us. A vile creature feeding off life's blood until there was nothing left. And that was when I knew we weren't untouchable. We had just been lucky."

—taintedglass

#spilled ink #prose #spilled thoughts #spilled words #thoughts #spilled poem #spilledink #spilled heart #spilled poetry #spilled writing #dark thoughts #cancer #lymphoma #writer #writing #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #female writers #mentalillness #mentalhealth #family #excerpt from my life #prose poetry #prose poem #prose writing

[andraste-preserve-us]

After dealing with lymphoma for 3 years, I’m cancer freeeeeeee

#non fandom #personal #cancer #fuck cancer #lymphoma #follicular lymphoma #cancer survival #cancer survivor

[rin-the-cat]

I was going to edit and add this rant to my previous post but it got so long I decided to give it its own post.

I don't understand how Doctors get a way writing up their notes like they do. At the vet clinic where I work, if a doctor doesn't examine something on an animal they put in the record that they did not examine it, but this never seems to be what human doctors do. Lets use my recent visit to a Rheumatologist. I will begin by prefacing that, in this case, I did not come away from the visit feeling like he had done a poor job. He did an exam that I felt was adequate for the situation and he asked all the right questions. However, the notes that he put into my legal medical record do not reflect the exam that he actually did.

Warning: very long rant ahead.

TLDR: Doctors lie in legal medical records all the time and sometimes it can have major consequences, but apparently not for the doctor or they wouldn't keep doing it.

ENT examined for oral mucositis, moisture, thrush, nasal deformity, external ear redness, deformity.

He did not look into my mouth and I don't think he was sitting close enough to me to get a good look from me just talking.

Abdomen examined for softness, tenderness, obvious organomegaly.

He never touched my abdomen

Neurological examination done for alertness, speech, facial symmetry, tone and power in upper and lower extremities, and gait.

He never checked tone or power in my lower extremities. I'm not sure that he examined the tone or power of my upper extremities now that I think of it. The only opportunity he had to see my gait was the two steps it took for me to get to the table, and I was very obviously limping.

The joint examination is performed for swelling, tenderness, warmth, erythema, and range of motion in the following joints: DIPs, PIPs, MCPs, wrists, first CMC's, elbows, shoulders, hips, knees, ankles, feet; spine for range of motion and paraspinal muscles for tenderness.

He did feel the joints in my hands (the reason why I was there.) but he didn't check range of motion on any joints or feel anything in my lower extremities.

The salient normal / abnormal findings are appended.

I suppose this line is supposed to excuse the fact that everything above it was a copy/pasted generic normal exam findings...

She is tender in the PIPs especially ring middle and index fingers, she does not have definite synovitis in any of the palpable joints. She does not have dactylitis. There is no nail pitting or onycholysis. She does not have a rash on her face there is no sclerodactyly periungual erythema. She has minimal if any tenderness across trapezius along the paraspinal regions. She did not have any significant tenderness in the trochanteric areas

This is the exam that he actually did in its entirety. Why type this out and include the copy-pasted bit that reports normal exam findings for things you didn't examine? What if you put this in my medical record today and tomorrow I ended up in the ER with a giant abdominal tumor that you somehow missed when you supposedly palpated my abdomen. It seems like you could/should get in serious trouble if something like that happened.

And that is basically what happened to my mom. She went in for pain in her back, over her ribs. The doctor didn't touch her except to "hit" the spot that hurt (her words, not mine. I do know that the spot that was hurting was so tender that a tap could have felt like he smacked her.) He declared that she had a broken rib, sent her to x-ray then sent her home. However the exam notes he put in her record read just like the ones above. The next day the pain was so bad she ended up in the ER where it was discovered that she had stage 4 lymphoma. It would not have been possible to do the exam that his notes claimed that he did and not realize that there was something more than a broken rib going on. This is a pet scan of her upper body. For those unfamilure with looking at CT scans or PET scans. the gray area at the top is her brain, the scan goes down to her mid-waist, and her arms are held up above her head. All of those bright white blobs are enlarged, involved lymph nodes.

On a normal person, you would only feel one node on each side of the neck and one node in each armpit area There are more there, but they would normally they would be too small to really feel. You can see on this scan that if he had palpated her neck, he would have felt numerous lumps. If he had felt her armpit (which you might not normally do, but if there were a bunch of enlarged nodes in the neck, you would probably feel the armpits next), he would have felt many lumps there too. If he had done the thorough exam that his medical exam notes claimed he did, he would not have though this was a simple broken rib.

Now would it have made a difference if it had been caught 24 hours sooner? Absolutely not, but that's not the point. The point is that Doctors lie in their patients medical records every day. Lying in a legal medical records is grounds for losing your license so why is lying and saying you examined something that you did examine given a pass? Why would doctors take the risk of doing multiple times a day, every day?

I like the way our medical records software is set up at the vet clinic where I work. There is a check list of all the systems that are typically examined. If a Doctor examines a system and it's normal they check a box but don't enter any notes. If something is abnormal they check the box and put in their notes in the text box next to the chart. If they don't examine a system (say there's an aggressive dog in for a routine exam, they might skip looking in the mouth.) then they don't check the box. When they are done it auto-populates the exam findings and for any system not examined it lists it as not examined. And that's now it should be, if a doctor doesn't examine something, they shouldn't be reporting normal findings. And here's the thing, the doctors that I work with actually do do a thorough exam, nearly every time. Doesn't matter if the dog is in for a well check or because they are sick, they look in the ears, eyes, mouth. they feel all the lymph nodes. They check range of motion on all four limbs. They feel the spine and check for neurological deficits. They listen to the chest. They palpate the abdomen. And that last one is a big one because dogs tend to get these primary splenetic tumors that are totally asymptomatic until one day it ruptures and the dog bleeds out. There have been many times where these tumors were discovered at an annual well check and the spleen could be removed while the dog was healthy instead of it being an emergency surgery on a critically ill dog. And the vet does all this so quickly and with a practiced ease that you might not even notice them doing it.

I think part of the reason that this is standard practice at any (decent) vet practice is because animals can't tell us where it hurts or how they are feeling, and I suppose human doctors assume we will be able to tell them if something is wrong. But here's the thing, that's not always true. Someone might have had a problem their whole life and assume that it's a normal thing. I tend to clam up at the doctor and forget what I wanted to say (It's really annoying, take the rheumatology visit for an example. My hands have been a major problem for me lately, the pain interferes to some degree with nearly every daily task that requires dexterity, but once I'm sitting in the office I sound more like, "My fingers hurt a little I guess... I don't know, I guess when I open jars 'n stuff" and mean while the doctor is probably thinking, "wtf is she doing here?" and I know the solution to this should be to write a list but when I try to do that my mind goes blank. My mostly nonverbal autistic 7 year old certainly isn't going to be able to tell the doctor what the problem is. I can't even get him to point to where it hurts when he hurts himself, i just have to wait and see where the bruise pops up.

#medical trauma #fibromyalgia #chronic illness #cancer #lymphoma #tw: cancer #tw: medical trauma #Doctors #medical records #chronic pain

[abwwia]

Hannah Wilke: Intra-Venus Series #6, February 19, 1992, 1992-93, chromagenic print with overlaminate, 47 1/2 by 71 1/2 inches; at Ronald Feldman.

Born Arlene Hannah Butter; (March 7, 1940 – January 28, 1993) was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist. Wilke's work is known for exploring issues of feminism, sexuality and femininity.

She was born on March 7, 1940, in New York City to Jewish parents; her grandparents were Eastern European immigrants.

She taught art in several high schools for approximately 30 years and joined the faculty of the School of Visual Arts.

Hannah Wilke died in Houston, Texas, in 1993 from lymphoma. Her last work, Intra-Venus (1992–1993), is a posthumously published photographic record of her physical transformation and deterioration resulting from chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant. Via Wikipedia

#HannahWilke #Americanpainter, #sculptor #photographer #videoartist #feminism #sexuality #femininity #artherstory #womensart #palianshow #artbywomen #contemporaryart #contemporary #art #femaleartist

Hannah Wilke: Marxism and Art: Beware of Fascist Feminism,1977, poster on heavy stock paper, 11 1/2 by 9 inches; at Ronald Feldman.

#Hannah Wilke #art by women #art #palianshow #photographers #lymphoma

[dailydragon08]

Posting again cuz I’m excited cuz it’s finally sinking in but

I’M CANCER FREEEEEEE

#cancer #fuck cancer #follicular lymphoma #lymphoma #cancer free #personal #cancer survival #cancer survivor

[fredrin]

I mentioned a few weeks ago in other social media fronts that Sarah and I were waiting on some news regarding a developing medical issue that started to present itself back in November. Unfortunately it's not the nothingburger we were hoping for. Definitive biopsy results are that Sarah's Lymphoma has returned. :(

On the good news front, it's not looking like one of the devastating really bad kinds, more like a progression of what she had before. Given what we understand of things, we are hopeful of a good prognosis and effective treatment. We'll have a better idea of the full prognosis and a plan for treatment over the next few weeks.

I will write up more details in an upcoming rant after we have more details about what is next, but i wanted to give everyone a heads up that this is what is going on with me lately, and why i've had trouble focusing on arty things.

It's not our first rodeo. This outcome is what we were expecting over the last few months so its not a shock, just the next step in the process. Jack is all on board with it all and has been, as well as friends and family. If you are a long time reader, you probably remember when we went through this 10 years ago. We handled it then, we can handle it now and will. :)

#Megatokyo #Seraphim #Boo #Lymphoma #Cancer

[medulla-soblongotcha]

I’ve had a day. I found myself devoid of the energy I need in order to pretend along with the woman I’m in love with that I am unaware of how utterly unattractive she actually finds me and nearly told her I am completely aware of how she is instead ultimately tolerating our association because she desperately needs a platonic bestie who will listen and hype her confidence up daily which is what I do freely because I adore her. Of course I didn’t have the energy for an outright confessional either so I more or less paraphrased as much as innocuously as possible under a haze of playful metaphors about werewolf behavior and acting feral for other folks but never me and how I understood that and it was okay I didn’t blame her.

When I dropped the facade she immediately took ill and became unavailable to chat due to an uncharacteristically debilitating and sudden headache which came out of nowhere and has sidelined her out of contact for what has proved to be the entire night now, despite this being the first day of radiation and monoclonal antibody therapy treatment I endured in a second round of treatment for small cell lymphoma. I had hoped so deeply that we’d watch something together to help distract me from the horrible experience and symptoms I am still feeling as I type this out. I suppose I asked for this when I dropped the pretenses and had the audacity of being honest for a change out of sheer exhaustion and emotional distress. I’m an utter buffoon.

Such fickle and grotesque things human hearts can be. And yet again here I sit, alone with mine, sick, draped in a despair of my own making it would seem. I am such a fuckwit.

#lymphoma #heartbreak #queer #lesbian #radiation #unrequited affection #unrequited love

[thechronicpaingame]

Still waiting on CT (results now, had it on Friday). They had me back into hospital for some quick checks yesterday. Turns out I'm really really constipated (so weird I knew I was because I just haven't been but I don't "feel" it at all). So I've been given a load of meds. My nausea is worsening, no vomiting but came very VERY close today. My knees are awful pain wise this evening. What is it with my knees getting so bad around my period?!

#chronic illness #fibromyalgia #chronic pain #polyarteritis nodosa #adrenal insufficiency #stills disease #fibro #chronic uti #nausea #psoriasis #lymphoma #period #menstrual cycle