Sunday, December Second, Two Thousand and Twelve

Hi everyone, this is my first blog post.  Thank you so much for the out poor of love and support.  I definitely feel very blessed and thankful for such amazing friends and family.  I feel pretty good since my first chemotherapy treatment.  Some side effects I experienced were fatigue, long bone pain and loss of appetite but those were all expected.  I am eating pretty well minus my lack of appetite...funny, I have no problem eating ice cream and sweets :-)

Last week, I had a Rituxan treatment on Friday, Nov 30th.  My LDH level slightly increased and the Epstein-barr virus reappeared so the Rituxan will help bring those numbers down.  Since my treatment Friday, my numbers have decreased and the EBV is undetected so that is positive.  I will now be doing one Rituxan treatment on the weeks that I do not have chemotherapy to stay on top of it.  My Rituxan treatment this week will be on Wednesday followed by my second round of chemotherapy next week.  Date is TBD.  Thanks for keeping up with the blog!