next steps

I had my consultation today at Exeter and discussed what's next. My consultant said that I could have ESHAP followed by BEAM followed by a stem cell transplant or BEACOPP. He advised I did not have BEACOPP as it's still in trial stages and he doesn't know what the long term side effects of it are yet, or how effective it is. So he suggested I go for the stem cell transplant of my own stem cells. As BEACOPP could be a waste of time that does me more harm than good. And he wants to avoid giving me pointless chemo. So I went with is know - how and chose to go the stem cell route.

So now I have to have a biopsy to double check the active cells are still Hodgkin's and then I will begin ESHAP chemotherapy followed by BEAM and then the stem cell transplant. Hopefully this will irradicate the cancer. Fingers crossed!!

I'm not entirely looking forward to it but at least I get two weeks off now to enjoy myself before the crap happens again. So that's a positive I suppose.

and maybe it's not even cancer eh? Although I won't hold my breath.