For those of you who chance on this blog, perhaps because you have yourself started down the Hodgkins journey I thought it would be good to add in the occasional short update. It used to frustrate me when I read blogs from other sufferers which just stopped, but I am not intending to maintain the blog in any serious way so friends and relations will just have to revert to picking up the phone or email in the normal way.
In summary things are going very well, I have returned to work full time and have been consumed in a whirlwind of activity since I started back in August. This fully justified taking the time to get well properly before I returned and this has paid dividends since. I have not suffered any side effects of note and feel just as fit and nearly as energetic as I did in the past. Sometimes I do not have the same stamina as I used to have, but that only means I am a bit more normal and appreciative of others than I was!
Family life is pottering along as usual, Lee is very busy with her company and a promotion in her institute (not to mention tap dancing and wine tasting hobbies). My return to work and constant travelling for work has put a real load on her which we hope will get better if I can get a European based job early next year. Poppy continues to sing and excell at drama while Holly is charging over jumps on her horses both seem contented at school and have good friends so all the other small boundary testing which goes on is easily bearable.
Probably my next big medical milestone will be the scan around March which will check for the possible return of the cancer. I have had the two clear scans already so we have a lot of hope that it will be clear, but some worry occasionally when driving home at night that it might not be, fingers crossed on that one.
We plan an idylic holiday with Christmas at home just with the family and then New Year on a scottish island with some good friends, we all need the rest after this last year and plan to have a very relaxing time by some nice real fires without email or phone connections.
I hope you all are doing well, if you are reading this because you are in treatment take heart and be strong, there are a lot of happy stories out there. Every day the sun comes up and I see it is a blessing.
Cheers
Gerry
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