I haven’t updated this site for ages but I am still here and unexpectedly thriving. Chemotherapy didn’t work for me, but an extremely high tech immunotherapy appears to have cleared the Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma tumours in my abdomen. I spent a lot of time in hospital last year, and finally in early October I was given CAR-T therapy, which is explained here.

I was only the 43rd patent in Ireland to receive CAR-T, It’s very expensive. A PET scan four weeks after the therapy showed NO evidence of tumour, and a repeat scan in January confirmed the result.

I am still in a state of disbelief. It seems like 2023 was spent in a nightmare from which I am only just awaking. And no, I haven’t written poems about it. Other writers have done a better job of writing about cancer than I could. I’ve written very little, but I do need to update my publication list because I’ve had some success in the last few months.

Anyway, here’s a photo of the treated T cells waiting to be infused back into my arm. Yes, they might look like chicken liver pate, but they are, in fact, pure sorcery.