3rd maintenance

Made the acquaintance of another patient this morning, who has a non-Hodgkins lymphoma as well, but didn't know what type. She said hers comes back every three years or so. It may be earlier this time because she said she had surgery to replace a knee and found out later that a big body stressor like that appears to be related to earlier relapse. Makes sense to me, but I don't know if it is more than anecdotal.  Upon telling my internist that I had another inguinal hernia--turned up by the CT scans, but which I can also feel--he said we should do nothing about that right away. So,  I may live with that discomfort for awhile. His response may represent the feeling of the docs against surgery during cancer times (unless for cancer itself).

Routine day and infusion. Not many checked in when I arrived and they served me right up. Red blood cell count was on the lower limit but not low enough to preclude treatment. (I wonder about next week?) In any case I was finished by about 12:30, a record short time. But at that time, the infusion room was overflowing with unfortunates.

Incidentally, my bp has been in great shape, like this morning, 116/65; ditto for the last several measurements. This is without any bp meds. Pretty cool.

My knees are really protesting this week. I rode the exercycle this morning and that usually smooths them out, but did not do so today. I had trouble walking to my car after sitting for the 3.5 hours of infusion and related activities. I still cannot fathom what is going on. Today it is my left knee that is giving out. That is relatively rare. Yet, when I am upright and walking around the problem often vanishes only to return when, seemingly, I haven't been active enough.  Probably need to do something about this, but will await the end of maintenance in another week and re-evaluate then.