In the "Good News for a Change" department

[edschweppe]

Five years ago, one of my fellow basses in the choir was diagnosed with a particularly nasty case of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The doctor told him his odds of survival were 60/40 at best, and the treatment involved chemotherapy so massive that he needed an autologous stem cell transplant.

Tonight, at choir rehearsal, he announced that his latest CT scan came back completely clean.

There was much rejoicing. :-)

There's been far too much crappy news recently; I figured sharing something good was called for.

Comments

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

Wonderful to hear something like this. You are right; all we seem to hear now that I'm passed 65, is who died and who is ill... :o)

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I'm very happy for your friend, it's amazing what stem cells can do. A friend of my parent's had a massive heart attack while he and his wife were working at Meteor Crater. He was air-evac'd to Phoenix, went through an experimental stem cell treatment (at no charge since it was experimental) and now doctors say they can see no evidence that he had a heart attack in the first place.