Up to Date

Thank you for visiting our blog, I hope to be able to keep you all posted on Jayne's progress during her struggle with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. I will try to get you up to date on her progress to date!

In May, 2006 Jayne was thinking she had an ulcer so had the doctor run some tests. After that Cat Scan the doctor came back and stated "yes you have an ulcer and the spots on your lungs have not changed." Puzzled of the spots...she was told that spots were found on a cat scan 8 months before and were noted to watch and follow up in 6 months. Nothing was told to Jayne at that doctors appointment 8 months earlier! After many many visits to the doctor and a second opinion they identified 24 spots between all 5 chambers of her lungs. She was told everything from... it is a fungus to being a scar from a childhood illness.
After fighting for months on February 1, 2007 she had a biopsy taken out of her center lobe of her lungs. The doctor came out to share the wonderful news with the family that he is 99% sure it is not cancer but will be sending it to the lab to confirm! We cried and rejoiced and made many phone calls to share the wonderful news!
On February 27, 2007 Jayne received a call from the Dr.'s office and was told that it was cancer...a very rare for of cancer called plasmacytoma. We did all the research we could on that form of cancer just to find out it was in fact diagnosed as Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma!
We have been traveling this road with the first round of chemo starting in December 2007 that lasted 4 months. Jayne continued to work as much as she could and stayed strong and motivated! Jayne's cough went away and she started feeling better...her cough came back and many other side effects so the second round of chemo was started in November 2009.
This time the chemo was much stronger and Jayne was attempting to still work but her body was just not willing to cooperate! Jayne spent many days in the hospital between November and June! In March, Jayne's work asked for her to focus on herself and her health and try to come to come back to work July 1! They have been so supportive and wonderful during this time!
Well, you are almost caught up to date!