Love for Now (2012)
“There was a gloomy atmosphere, in spite of Felicity’s determined and natural sparkliness. She began talking before we even sat down. ‘It’s not good news I’m afraid, the news from the scan. Far from shrinking, your tumour appears to have grown. I can’t tell you how disappointed we are.’She outlined immediately what the next steps will be. I am to leave the R-CHOP regime in favour of E-SHAP, a much more aggressive treatment, which will start on Thursday week. I will have to go in tomorrow, to hav...e a hickman line put in my chest, a device which allows the drugs to be pumped in intravenously, and also at home. I am to have two cycles of this, four weeks apart, and then a bone marrow transplant at the end. They are already talking about getting stem cells from me and about possible donors from my siblings.Felicity was lovely as ever, but extremely grave underneath it all. She said: ‘We are guilty, I suppose, for saying there were such high hopes at the beginning. But 80% are really good odds.MoreLess
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