Sunday, August 20, 2017

Pokerface


Pokerface.




Lester Diamond.


Totally useless. 

Apologies to James Wood.




See all the cells? 
 

These are plasma cells. They have immunoglobulins attached to them. They are kinda shaped like a Y.  
 

The inside of the Y are heavy chains. Notbillybob has  CANCER of the light chains. They are called Kappa light chains. There are also Lambda light chains but they arent cancerous in his case. Kappa light chains are on the outside. Malignant. 
                                    



There are  lot of people,
 family and friends  who are wondering about this,  diagnosis,...what the hell is it?

so heres how it goes...

 The myeloma cells are all identical. They are the ones with all the little dots.


They have little dots in them. It's called an eccentric nucleus.  
They are cells gone wrong. Rogue

 then they start bunching up  just like a pile of cards.
Bunching, bunching  until...they make a tumor. Then they stimulate bone eating cells called
osteoclasts . These cell get busy  making holes, Normally these cells work together with  cells called     osteoblasts which are suppose to fill in the holes,
but the cancerous plasma cells disrupt them.  



Then  the tumor supresses the osteoblasts.The end result;
areas which the outer wall of a bone which is called    "CORTICAL BONE"  is either just paper thin or gone all together.
  

Bone in human and other mammal bodies is generally classified into two types 1: Cortical bone, also known as compact bone and 2) Trabecular bone, also known as cancellous or spongy bone


but it doesn't end there.





Besides
being thinned out,
the trabecular
bone (inside) is replaced by stacks of
clones of plasma 
free light chains
it just moves in like
an unwanted house guest
and eats all your cheese popcorn,
 



but seriously, The destroyed bone leaves you with high calcium in your blood, which damages
the kidneys...leading to dialysis or worse...end organ damage.
liver, kidneys... and the tumors just keep popping up wherever....





have to fight this...





And to fight this they will use either radiation, or steroids which are called chemotherapy, but are much different than that which notbillybobs' dad had.  Lenalidomide and Dexamethasone for round one

The goal is....             REMISSSION.

Now it is Sunday. He has been in here since thursday.
Time to fly this coop. 

Notbillybob would LIKE TO THANK EACH AND EVERYONE WHO CAME TO VISIT...TOOT TOOT, JOE,  
RACHEL !!!!...JEN!!!... MOM, ANDREA, KATIE!!!

...P R I N C E P E S S A...

AND EVERYONE WHO LEFT LIKES AND LOVE. HE LOVES YA BACK!!!!
















"It's not Frankenshtine,

its Fraunkensteen!"
"oh, so then is it Froadrick?

 "No,it's Fredrick. And you must be Egor...
"No, it's Eyegor!!!



"They told me
it was Igor"


"Well they wuuh wrong wunt thay"



"bwahahahahahahaha!"



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