She had the surgery, removal of the tumor was successful. She spent a couple days in the hospital and is now at a physical therapy center. She needs to reinforce things like walking, writing, and talking.
She will eventually need radiation treatment. She also had seizures while in the hospital and is now on seizure medication.
Next hurdle is overcoming some shitty doctors and nurses who cant even be assed to give her, her prescriptions on time. It got to the point she contracted a urinary tract infection because the dumbass nurses didnt follow up on a cathader removal.
It’s crazy how fast you can feel the chemo working. I had my first chemo yesterday and the lump in my neck already shrunk to about half the size. I also had 2 very small but tender lymph nodes on each side of my neck that started acting up, those are both gone and back to normal now. They told me bout how rapidly the lump would shrink, which came up cause I had asked if I would still need it surgically removed, but it’s definitely encouraging to see it in action.
Got results back, not cancer. They think it's an autoimmune disorder which does run in her family but is hard to diagnose so that's why cancer was what they were originally leaning toward.
Thats a whole other can of worms but it's the better of the two options for sure.
Is she vaccinated? Not at all tryna run in circles and have this conversation again, but why I ask is, I recently learned both from my personal oncologist and from my own online medical research, that Hodgkin’s Lymphoma can actually be a very rapidly developing cancer. We’re talking weeks to months. Once I was aware of that, it brought the vaccine right to the front of my mind again and there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think about it. My lump popped up literally a month after getting the vaccine, and knowing what I now know, that is NOT too short of a timeframe for me to have developed the cancer. Pile on top of that the fact that lymphoma is a cancer of the immune system, and any vaccine alters your immune system, and it’s especially not too far fetched. If you do some digging, you can find other firsthand reports of people reporting lymphoma diagnoses really soon after getting the vaccine. Seemingly only that type of cancer too. I haven’t found many other cancers being blamed on the the vaccine. Prolly because of how long the others take to develop. It wouldn’t be possible this soon along.
I don’t completely blame the vaccine, but I’ll never eliminate the possibility either, especially since I’ll never be able to trace the original cause. All I know is it’s a daily reoccurring thought that makes me sick when I think about it, and if I could go back in time to not get the vaccine and see if I still got the cancer, then I definitely would.
She does have the vaccine, but she's shown symptoms like that for the decade I've been with her. Always sick, gets tired real easy, lymp nodes swollen a lot, etc. We just always thought it was an auto immune disorder. Lymphoma has the same symptoms and can be slow growing so i thought we just fucked up and assumed wrong this whole time.
Doing better myself. Still kinda weird living alone but I'm adjusting. Been meeting some new people as well and keeping myself busy which helps a ton. Me and the ex actually continue to keep a good friendly relationship going between us so that helps too since we have a dog we're jointly taking care of.
And I know this is risky to bring up here, but I've also reconnected with my sister over the past month after 3 1/2 years of not talking to each other. She's so much better now and has changed a ton and it was so nice to visit and see each other again. Definitely made my year a lot better. We're back to being as close as ever and I'm much better off because of that.
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She will eventually need radiation treatment. She also had seizures while in the hospital and is now on seizure medication.
Next hurdle is overcoming some shitty doctors and nurses who cant even be assed to give her, her prescriptions on time. It got to the point she contracted a urinary tract infection because the dumbass nurses didnt follow up on a cathader removal.
Thats a whole other can of worms but it's the better of the two options for sure.
Since I’m the resident guinea pig, I can 10/10 recommend droppin acid while under the influence of chemo drugs. 💯💯
Personal hypothesis, since chemo is fucking wit my immune system, I’m prolly breaking drugs down at a way slower rate.
11/10. Catch you some cancer and try it for yaself. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
And I know this is risky to bring up here, but I've also reconnected with my sister over the past month after 3 1/2 years of not talking to each other. She's so much better now and has changed a ton and it was so nice to visit and see each other again. Definitely made my year a lot better. We're back to being as close as ever and I'm much better off because of that.
This place has gotten soft.