Saba Beats Cancer

Apparently Lee and I have a reputation for knowing how to celebrate.  We got a lot of texts and calls about how we should celebrate all this great news! Most involved drinking emogis. My boss even sent an amazing bottle of champagne. And we certainly had a lot to celebrate with the news about remission. However -I am still in the middle of chemo and certainly don't feel up to it.  Staying alcohol free and mostly sugar free until all this crap is out of my system. Alcohol can still affect all the millions of chemical interactions with the chemo and I can tell you I see a beer or glass of wine or people drinking a single malt on a movie and it looks so tempting.  But my taste buds are way off and I have heard that some people no longer like the taste of things the used to like. Too big a risk. So the celebrations wait until we are done with chemo. If it is 6 sessions, that means we complete in  June with this stuff out of my system in July. And that bottle of cha...

Not even kidding.  Below are the scans. The one on the left is me riddled with cancer in February -the one on the right is  me today in comp lete remission. This doesn't mean I am cured - it just means that after two cycles of treatment we saw " a diminution of the seriousness or intensity of disease or pain; a temporary recovery."   So now we go for the cure. Note - there is nothing going on in the brain (joke intended), nothing going on in the spine and nothing going on in the lymph nodes.  Yes, we have no cancer.  Even the doc was a little surprised at how well my body responded to the treatment.  For all those who worked so hard to keep my spirits up - it worked. To the prayer warriors around the country who kept lifting us up in your prayers - it worked.  Team Saba has a huge victory today and we thank you all.  We are still going in for Chemo #3 but it got delayed since my body has not fully recovered from all the other crap t...

I have cancer and I feel pretty damn lucky right now.  We live 5.3 miles from the best lymphoma center in the world. Got a lymphoma doctor who is a world leader and also specializes in brain issues from lymphoma. My platelets are looking good. And I can feel my tumors - most people cannot - so I know this morning that the lumpkin twins have shrunk considerably.  They are half the size in the groin and I can't feel the one in my chin or the one in my left armpit.  Do you know how good that feels?  And #meandthefucker walked for 1.2 miles after a stretch and situps.  Day 3 of chemo and I am almost doing my normal morning routine. And I took a small poop. Victory over the bowels. But the most brilliant luck is something only I could conger up - I went to pee yesterday afternoon (they have to measure so I have to pee in plastic holders). Of course to accomplish this I have to unplug the fucker, wrap his electric cord around his scrawny neck and go past the bathr...