I was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma, my cancer, on October 10th 2022.

That’s one year ago today. I’m still alive, I’ve survived. Hooray!! That feels very uplifting to me. To me it’s a milestone. With all the treatment I’m doing, the diet changes and everything else I’ve done and been through, I’m still here. Kicking around on planet earth. It feels good. I’m happy.

I hope you’re happy too! Thanks for staying on the journey with me. For all those who’ve helped, and treated me, in many different ways. For the family that has supported from near and far, those who’ve been a friend to me, the people who maintain some form of contact and those that support Danielle and Kael. The people that have donated money to help out, those that have given of their time to help and anything else or anybody that I’ve missed. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!! You’re all amazing. I’m still here and you’ve helped with that. So pat yourself on the back and have a little celebration.

Of course I’ve still got cancer, so the race isn’t over yet. I feel better physically than I did a year ago, although the last year has been a bit of a roller coaster health wise. Mentally and emotionally I’m in a good place too. Well, today anyway. Again, though, the last year has been a roller coaster ride both emotionally and mentally. Which is something I would like to write about in a future post. Most of the time I’m good but there are times when I’m not. It’s just that most of you don’t see that, and that’s ok. But that’s another story as I mentioned just before.

I was almost at the end of another post explaining my treatment regime, but it’s taking time to write that one. I’ll get that out next, but I really wanted to get this one out today as it’s the exact date since my diagnosis. So today is a good day.

I don’t exactly know what my cancer’s doing at the moment. As you know at my last scan back in April I was classed as stable. I thought the next scans were due round about now, but I’ve been informed by the hospital that my next haematology (oncologist for blood cancers) appointment will be on the 6th December. To me it would make sense to have scans first, so I think Danielle is going to email them to see exactly what is going on.

Until I know more though I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing and as long as I feel like I’m not going downhill then all is good.

Once more thank you for reading this and here’s to the next year of survival. You never know, maybe I’ll become cancer free in the next year. That’s the goal anyway.

Till then, safe travels people. Enjoy life as much as possible and live it in whichever way works best for you.

Big Love!!

Jon

Oh and I pinched the image at the top from a blog post by Unicity Healthcare, which you can read here: https://unicityhealthcare.com/national-cancer-survivors-day/