On Wednesday October 8 we went to Roswell Park. We met with Dr V.J., who was Dr R.'s resident in training. I answered many, many questions about my complete medical history, although it appeared they already had some of the answers from my family doctor. Then Dr R. joned us.
As far as my symptoms go, I was by this time starting to feel fatigued every day, and my balance was off. I continued to bruise easily. I dropped things as my hands would sudddenly just lose their grip. I had no pain.
Dr R. ordered more blood tests, and an CT scan to be done in the next two days.
She confirmed that my diagnosis was definitely Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a low grade indolent version, and most likely the same as Dr H. diagnosed. Treatment at Roswell, however, would be a less toxic version of chemotherapy, with Fludarabine in combination with Rituximab for 4 days every 4 weeks, for 6 cycles. This chemo has fewer side effects and my hair would not fall out.
We had already made our decision. Roswell Park is actually closer to our home than the regional hospital and is a national cancer centre to boot. The treatment would be less toxic. How could we go wrong? In addition, our drug coverage is U.S. based so we would have less trouble having prescriptions filled.
The CT scan was scheduled for Friday October 10 at 5pm.
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