Diagnosed with Non-hodgkins, large B-cell lymphoma last December...right before the holidays. In fact, I got the byopsy results the day before Christmas eve...Oh boy, what a holiday we had. Truthfully, the whole holiday season is a blur to me.

Just completed 6 cycles of R-CHOP in April. I feel like I was lucky with the side effects. I smoked pot to help with my nausea and appetite issues. It worked like a charm...like I flicked a switch and the nausea waves were gone...and I had no trouble eating normally.

This may not be the ticket for everyone, but it worked for me.

I had bad heartburn the weeks I had treatment, so my doctor presribed an antacid that helped with that. Didn't really loose ALL of my hair, as one of the infusion nurses said I would. I lost hair on some parts of my body...that was kind of creepy I thought...but for the most part the hair on my head and face remained intact.

The other side effect I've had is the numbing feeling in my fingertips...which is more of an annoyance than anything else.

Now I'm waiting to get a PET scan to see how the treatments worked. I feel pretty good though. Still fighting the fatigue a little, but it's getting better every day.

My wife is nervous about the PET scan, as you can imagine...but I am optimistic.

At the risk of getting too ''preachy", I think it's extremely important to keep a positive attitude through all of this. I know it's hard sometimes, but I feel like there's no sense adding a negative, "oh woe is me" attitude to my situtation.

You know, "the beat goes on", and I'm not ready to stop dancing yet.