Enough about you, let's talk about me...

Well it's my bit of the internet, so I can!  This is really a quick catch-up for people I know and, rather than send out several emails to my various groups, I am going to post most of my thoughts here.

A quick bit of history, earlier this year I was diagnosed with a pure teratoma and was appropriately operated.  As is common in Europe the normal form of follow-up treatment is one of several surveillance protocols (methods), and so I've been monitored.  Unfortunately (or not as the case may be) my last surveillance visit highlighted a lump on one of my abdominal lympth nodes (periaotic) and hence the next phase of my treatment/life starts - the need for some chemotherapy.

Interestingly coinciding with the growth of this lump I also started/had an attack of some urinary infection.  Now I don't know (am seeing a urologist soon) but I strongly suspect that that infection is a symptom of this lump.  I don't know for definite, but as I don't get urine infections and it is in exactly the "same" place as my lump, my adding up of 2 + 2 comes to 4.

Today I had my pre-chemo kidney blood test(s) and am awaiting Mr Chemotherapy consultant to write to me in the next couple of days, something in the post to look forward to...

Prelude

This is a quick introduction about me and this blog.  I am in the unlikely position of having twice had testicular cancer, and am now at a stage of relapse and am awaiting some chemotherapy.

This whole situation is somewhat of a disappointment, however in life (as I am learning) you have to deal with the obstacles that get put in your way; and that's what I am doing.

So this little blog is about my progress through the realms of chemotherapy and my road to recovery and "good health" again.  So onwards and upwards...