Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The Monster Has a Name

When I started this blog, the title came from some half-hearted joking about un-named generic lymphomas. There are two basic types of lymphoma, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin. We decided that anything that was causing this much mayhem in our lives deserved a name. Thus, the blog title became my name for the beast, "Billiam's Lymphoma", for the man known as "Bill" to his family and "William" to ours.

Yesterday William had one of his lymph nodes removed and had the shunt/port, or what we like to refer to as his "Port-o-let" or Borg Implant, installed. The surgery went well and didn't take as long as the surgeon had predicted. William felt pretty good when we got home and much better after his medications. Too much better actually. He'd been told by the surgeon, the nurses and, repeatedly, by me to take it easy, stay in bed let the surgery heal for two days before he started getting up and around much. I thought I was going to need to duct tape him to the bed. Up and down and up and down. Every time I turned my back he was hopping out of bed for something that I could have easily and happily gotten for him. He was about to get a knock in the noggin.

He also ate like a champ for the first time in weeks last night. Our neighbors, the dog ranchers, gave us a giant Stouffer's Lasagna and an equally gigantic Stouffer's Mac and Cheese tray. Billiam was in pasta and cheese heaven. So, Pat and Diana, it was a BIG hit for him and a real life saver to me because I was exhausted by yesterday evening and very grateful I didn't have to do anything more than toss those trays in the oven for an hour.

The surgeon, called this morning to let me know that he'd gotten a preliminary report back from the pathologist on the lymph node. He hadn't expected to know anything before next week so I don't know if he hounded the path lab on my behalf since he knew how worried we've been, or if the path lab was just that quick this time. Without further ado, the name of the beast attacking my husband is Hodgkin.

I don't know whether to rename the blog or not. I'll think about that another day.

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