Green Light!

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I just spoke to the doctor that runs the day unit and he has reviewed my blood results and they are all fine. So I guess I didn't ask the right questions of the nurse yesterday. ( I refer myself to a poem of one of my favourite poets here )

Not only that the doc said he had also reviewed my CT scan from last Thursday and the results from that were very good as well so I won't need to have any more chemo in between now and the stem cell transplant in September.

Apart from a day of "MOT" tests on 21st of August and once a week blood tests I'm now free of treatment until September and I can return to the office for a couple of weeks as well.

If I had a tail I'd be wagging it.

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