Healthwise

 

January 2025 begins my seventeenth year fighting lymphoma and twelfth fighting melanoma which was more than likely given to me when I was infused with CYTOXIN and FLUDARA - since getting other cancers is a side effect of both these toxins.

What's done is done so it really does not matter how or why since it just is...  and right now its been stopped by taking combinations of:

• Yervoy and Opdivo
• Radiation and Opdivo
• Just Opdivo

But, it had to be in this order.  I have had almost 100 treatments of Opdivo and my body has, so far, not objected to the ongoing treatment.

Knock on wood...

My lymphoma is currently under control and has shrunk a little with Venclexa pills that I take daily.

However, all is not that hunky dory as all this treatment has left me with:

• anemia
• low platelet count
• low immune system
• intermittent nausea
• constant daily fatigue

I had a serious heart attack in 2008, had five stents inserted into three arteries and now my heart is operating as a healthy 77-year-old man's heart should operate which is good.

Two years ago, I had L2, L3, L4, L5, & S1 fused together which is considered the granddaddy of back surgeries and came through with flying colors and have experienced no other problems other that ARTHRITIS creeping all over my joints.

One could say I am lucky or one could say that I was born with a strong body...  it really does not matter as I have always tried to maintain excellent physical condition all my life.

At age 40, I stopped:

• smoking cigarettes
• drinking alcohol
• eating red meat, fried foods, and sugars

Something is working right because my good/bad cholesterol ranges from 84-91...