Final Meeting with Consultant

A year ago, after two biopsies, Patrick Axon told me that the lump on my neck was not malignant. He was wrong. A year later, Robert Marcus tells me that I am in full remission. He added that those Hodgkin’s patients with a negative PET scan hardly ever relapse. Lets hope he is right. He further told me that ABVD treatment is not in itself carcinogenic (unlike what was contained in the consent form). The sun is bursting out all over, I guess. I go back in September for a check-up. Indeed I will be checked every 3 or 4 months over the next two years.

For the moment I am very relieved. And tomorrow I need to make a start on getting together some kind of career. That will be a far more difficult task than chemo was...never mind...I have some plans.

An American colleague wrote this: “Es giebt so viele Morgenrothen, die noch nicht geleuchtet haben.” He must think I speak German because I have a habit of greeting people in german. Like Guten abend, Sieg Heil etc. School boyish behaviour I know but there you are. In reality, aside from a few such words and some names of yummy dishes, I haven’t got a clue about the German language. Anyway, here is a translation: " There are so many dawns yet to glow.” I hope so. And I hope to see them with my Laura and Pavel. Adios.