Marginal Zone Lymphoma Survivor: Chemotherapy & Life After Diagnosis | Kimberly's Story (Video 2/3)

Kimberly shares her story of getting diagnosed with marginal zone lymphoma, a subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, undergoing chemotherapy, and goes into detail about her egg retrieval and embryo freezing journey.
FULL STORY/TRANSCRIPT → www.thepatientstory.com/cance...
We break down her story in three videos:
1. How I Got Diagnosed
2. Going Through Treatment & Quality of Life Issues, Survivorship
3. My Fertility Journey
VIDEO #2 TIME CODES
[Chemotherapy & Side Effects]
(00:49) Getting chemo through IV and the chemo regimen (rituximab/Rituxan & bendamustine)
(3:29) Day 1 and Day 2 of chemo infusions
(6:04) Side effects
(10:21) Treatment-progress PET/CT scans
(12:55) Reflections about getting a port vs. IV
(16:00) Learning about being in remission
(17:52) Follow-up schedule
[Quality of Life Topics]
(19:08) Mentally, emotionally pushing through
(20:31) How to support cancer patients
(22:00) Survivorship

[@tammyslaughter9587]

Marginal Zone lymphoma is an indolent form of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and is incurable. It doesn’t matter if you treat it early, in fact the longer you can be on watch and wait with no B symptoms and no treatment the better the whole lifetime prognosis will be, eventually treatment between remissions will become less and less effective until treatment finally becomes totally non effective. Always educate yourself and know exactly what is being pushed in your veins every month for six months. I was totally surprised this person had no idea what she was being treated with. Hopefully she obtained a long remission before relapse.

[@ThePatientStory]

Tammy, thank you for dropping your knowledge. -Stephanie

[@tammyslaughter9587]

@@ThePatientStory My pleasure! Thank you for what you’re doing , it really helps others going through cancer hear from survivors. I’m a survivor of Stage 4 Colorectal cancer and stage 4 Splenic Marginal Zone lymphoma . Keep up the good work, you are appreciated!

[@ThePatientStory]

Wow, you sound like such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing. Sending you my very best!

[@frankjoseph4273]

The chemo was Rubotuxen, that's what I take. Mine has moved to my marrow unfortunately.