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Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma- Watch & Wait Approach

Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Oct 7 11:27am | Replies (234)

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@susanlim I feel find just tired some days. But i run myself ragged with activities. I am on various boards, and chair person to a couple of groups. I run my own business. Escort groups and travel around the world. I give travel talks and tend to forget how old I am. LOL..
Besides being tired some days I feel fine.
So I am not worried. If you saw my blood work it has been fine. It is possible one day it will come back all screwed up. Then I will deal with it. And probably stop doing not a thing.
Till then Nothing is going to stop me.
We can't dwell on our illnesses or they will kill us.
It good to understand what is happening or could happen. But by no means will I let these diseases or potential diseases rule my life. The ones the Dr's watch and the possible ones that could come up in the future.
I am the kind of person I won't lie, that if I sit and read about prostate cancer, I will start thinking I have it, and I don't even have a prostate. LOL..
I was so happy to find Mayo clinic connect to be honest years ago. It actually helped me, to stop reading everything on line.
I just focus on this site, and I hope to help everyone, not panic like I did 3 years. When I had the double cancer diagnosis.
Cause nothing scares the hell of you more, than being told you have double trouble.
I just let my Dr's worry about it, and I focus on my life not my diseases.
I find it keeps my stress level down.
Now if I could just loose the 15 pounds I gained stressing the first year about what would happen next I would be 100% my old self? 🙂

You have a great day..
Jackie

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That is so important. To forget about it as much as possible between tests. One thing you write that makes me wonder was that “1 in 3 FL patients will never need treatment.” Is that so? I am 56, diagnosed with FL only last August, on watch and wait. I was given the impression that all of us with FL will need treatment sooner or later —except those who die of something else, including old age, first.