I think is what we agreed upon. My choices are relatively simple – hang out till the NHL comes back. No, I don’t think so. – go with an every two month schedule for the next two years and hopefully it won’t come back. or – plan on every three months forever.
Now, the last option makes much more sense to me: the every few months post my original chemo was holding me just fine till it had to be halted do to the import of COVID and the subsequent risk of being immune deficient in the face of a new, novel virus. What happened? Off Rituximab in spring of 2020. Recurrence by fall of 2023. That is what? 3.5 years? I really feel like without the pandemic, if I had stayed on the Ritux – I wouldn’t have had the recurrence.
So back to the infusion center. Accept that masks are going to be a significant part of my life going forward and try to control my anger at all the idiots who don’t want themselves or their children vaccinated. Perhaps they will survive their infections, but I am going to be one of those vulnerable adults who is being put at unnecessary risk. Why? vaccines aren’t going to protect me as well due to compromised immune system, more people available to spread disease, and those same people are unlikely to stay home with their viruses.
