Welcome to Dann's lymphoma Blog...

Dear friends and family,

Long, long ago* I set up this blog to share my wisdom with the world and then found that I had nothing to say! Things change. Perhaps I still have no wisdom to offer but as most of you will have heard by now, last week I had a tonsillar lymphoma removed and next week I start chemotherapy. Lenore, James, and I have been overwhelmed by the support of family and friends and sincerely appreciate all of the cards, calls, and visits. Many of you have expressed a desire to know how things are going so I will try to post regular updates here. News of cancer seems to initiate a mutant version of the telephone game in which the news gets bleaker with each telling. Hopefully, what is posted here will provide a reasonably accurate, first-hand account of the events and emotions of the coming months. Along the way I hope I can also come to a better self-understanding of my own disease and my reactions to it. I am sending the URL for this page to those of you who have expressed an interest...please feel free to forward the address on to others as well.

Dann

*in 'web time' -- it was actually in May 2002!