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Treatment completed

Dec 17

Posted by Primal in Bike Related, Leukaemia Treatment

Helllo again everyone. I am happy to say that as of Monday 15th December I have been completely treatment free. For the first time in 2 years I have not had to take a single tablet. This marks the end of my treatment in the Coleman K Byrne Unit in Beaumont. I will now be in the regular out patient system and the regularity of my appointments will be lessened.

What this really means to me is that I will be able to get back to the life I knew, where I had energy for things and could maintain some level of concentration on things. It also means I may be able to get back to playing basketball for the remainder of the season in Cavan, which would be really great.

A quick note to give my best wishes to Chris who was treated in Beaumont while I was there for the APML the same as I had. Chris is not having the best of times of it at the moment and I just want to wish him all the best and a speedy recovery. Good luck mate.
IBF Toy Run for the National Children’s Hospital
On Sunday last we took part in the IBF Toy Run for the National Children’s Hospital in Tallaght. All in all about 60 bikes took part in what was a great day out for a very worthy cause.

A big thumbs up to the organisers for a very well run event. Looking forward to next year’s already lads!

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Over the hump

Feb 19

Posted by Primal in Bike Related, Bikers4Life, Leukaemia Treatment

Right folks, I’m back from my break from telling this story and hopefully over the coming days I will be able to bring things right up to current day and we will continue from there. First things first though, I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to read the blog over the past few months.

Okay so to continue from where I left off.

I had come out of surgery and been put in plaster and could not really move my legs. Next step was another one of the dreaded Bone Marrow samples. At this stage my medical team had also undergone a change as per the rotation policy of the Hospital. At first I was apprehensive about having a new team looking after me as my trust in the previous team was so high. My fears proved to me completely unfounded as the new team were jusst as amazing as the first.

I was extremely scared of getting another bone marrow sample taken at this stage because I was already in so much pain. I was assured by my new doctor however as she told me that she had preformed the proceedure over 1000 times and that she would not hurt me. I found this difficult to believe at the time as I had been in such pain with my first bone marrow sample. She also explained that unlike a lot of other patients it would not be safe for me to have another general aesthetic. Anyway, despite my fears the procedure was completed entirely painlessly much to my surprise.

This test was to be very important as it would let us know how the treatment was going and if there was to be any good news for us because so far it had all been bad.

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How it all started

Jun 20

Posted by Primal in Leukaemia Treatment

Well guys and gals I’d firstly like to introduce myself. My name is Darragh Verschoyle, I am 22 years old at the moment. I have many hobbies which I will get into with you all over time but mostly I enjoy Music, Basketball, Technology, Web Design, Motorcycles and Gaming. I am involved in the running of my family business which is Internet Café’s.

The reason I am writing this blog is to try to give people some sort of an insight into why it is that a charity like Bikers4Life is important. On June 6th 2006 I was diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukaemia . Now I am a little self concious of writing this blog and I don’t want it to appear to be some kind of attention seeking exercise or a plea for pity. I am quite well at the moment and am not looking for sympathy from anybody. My only goal of writing this blog is to try to help people to understand what it is that a cancer patient goes through and indeed what the nurses and doctors on the wards do to help.

So what got me diagnosed?

Around May 2006 I started to feel a little sick. Now don’t get me wrong, at this point I thought I had a flu, which is exactly the sort of thing I would completely ignore. The only thing which really should have been an alarm bell taking into account what I know now, was that I was spitting up a lot of blood from the back of my throat and my gums were bleeding. I am the sort of person who will only go to a doctor if I am forced, so eventually my Mam made me got to the doctors to get checked out.

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