#hodkins

I've been wanting to prescribe this for a long time, but I couldn't get my hands on it

when I just started getting carried away with Moomin, I prescribed that Too-Ticky and Muddler are brother and sister.But then I forgot about it and soon decided to register that Hodkins is her father.

In general, thoughts of a loving father Hodkins do not give me peace, although he probably spent more time with papers and drawings than with a child

Although Too-Ticky doesn't look much like him, she remains a copy of him.

I'm A #Cancer Survivor, This is My Story

This is the type of Hodgkin’s that I had when I was diagnosed the second time. Of the four types it is the most common with large tumor nodules. One of them is clearly visible slightly off center toward the bottom left. In the spring of 1995 I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma . Of the four types it was the mixed cellularity type. The cancer first appeared as a lump on the right side of my…

I had the fateful phonecall on a Thursday telling me I have cancer. I was actually in a hotel and burst into hysterical tears… What a scary thing to be told before you have managed to have lunch!! Rachael was delayed on a plane and arrived 45 minutes later looking like she had 5 rounds with Mike Tyson. Never an easy thing to take as a partner and she received the news from the hotel manager!!…. (I was busy snotting all over her desk!!).

I maintain that’s it’s harder for your loved ones, they are totally helpless and would give anything in the world for it to be them instead of you.

All I have to do is smash cancer… Whereas Rachael has to see her fiancé sick and low for at least 6 months… It would certainly kill me if the shoe was on the other foot!

Following the phonecall, my consultant arranged for me to see a consultant haematologist the following morning. If there is anything I could convey to anyone reading this, it is the total positivity that man had!!

“If it’s 2a as we suspect, you are looking at up to 90% chance of a cure”. Obviously my mind went to the 10%, but Hodgkins is one of the most curable cancers in the world, so if you feel ‘why me?!…’, just think 'it could be a whole lot worse’. There are many types of lymphoma, some less treatable than others. If it’s Hodgkin’s, you have reason to be positive.

But there WAS some heart breaking news….