Anemia (with shortness of breath, unusual fatigue) was discovered during my annual wellness check in mid-March. Exploring the cause of the anemia uncovered a mass in the cecum, which is being treated as high grade B-cell non-hodgkins lymphoma. The tumor is not nearly as large as the one found in 2010 and my health hasn’t deteriorated nearly as badly as then. However, I am 14 years older and a body can only take so much intensive chemo and all that entails.
I returned to the care of our trusted hematologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. This is made possible by Medicare. An intense in-patient chemotherapy regimen (R-ICE) was begun the first weekend of April. In the summer I entered Mayo’s Stem Cell Transplant program, from which I graduated on December 4th, 2024.
I am returning to in-person teaching engagements with the upcoming New Year Retreat at Cloud Mountain. On-line teaching is back to normal.