WhAT yOU TaLKing Bout Willis!!!!!

So, You guys know the diagnosis, Right??  Hodgkins Lymphoma also know as Hodgkins disease.  Yea, so back in April, I went through a series of tests, and I told you a lymph node biopsy revealed the diagnosis.  I'm glad I liked the doctor who delivered it to me, and boy, in retrospect, I really appreciate his approach with the delivery.  He was very reassuring, but all I heard at the time was CANCER.  My brain initially didn't process anything he said, except CANCER.  So, it went something like this: " I'm sorry to be the one to give you this information, but It's the best bad news I would want to hear if I were you...................., It's one of the most responsive(to chemo and radiation therapy) and curable forms of cancer if caught in an early stage.  Its not the end of the world........."
  So, need I say, that that was a long drive home.  My brain was saying "CANCER CANCER CANCER, ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
  It took me a couple of hours, but I decided I had better start doing a little research and see how true the stats were that the Doc had given.......................................Whew!!!, now I'm not hearing CANCER over and over again in my head.  My nerves have started to calm, at a snails pace, but none-the-less, calming. So, now the search for the one who will guide me back to health, an Oncologyst.  I was adamant on going to Cedars Sanai, and that is where my treatment started and will finish.  I got an appointment the next week!!!!!!

Up to Speed

Hey all.  So, my plan is to catch you up to speed on my personal situation, as I have just completed my last chemotherapy session.  Like I said,  better late that never.  RIGHT!!!  So, for the next week, I will fill you in on my experiences over the last few months.  I'll share with you all, some of the things that got me trough the chemo and just some stories that I have written in my diary along the way, which by the way, was meant for the blog.  I didn't know this blogging thing was so easy.  I though it was this tedious process.  But, I told myself,  no more fears,  just do it.  It was not even a days work getting the blog up and running.  Well, not really running yet.  But it's up!!!!.  I still have a lot of work to do to make the blog look good, and get yall to come and actually read and chat with me.  I can't wait for my first reader.  Looking forward to meeting you!!!!    Talk to ya later.

Oh, I will be posting quite a bit in the next week or two.  I gotta get ya up to speed!!!

The Diagnosis

I'm quite late with this blog, but better late than never.  I have been meaning to get to this for sometime now, and finally, here I am.  I am pretty excited.   I was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma back in April of this year.  I discovered some lumps on my neck, around the collar bone area.  I actually didn't rush to the doctor right away, I waited to see if it went away.  Thought maybe my lymph nodes was reacting to something my body was trying to fight off,  like a cold.  But low and behold, it definitely was not a cold!!  After a couple of months, I did get it checked out, and after a series of tests ( the revealing test, being a biopsy of one of my lymph nodes), it in fact, showed that I had cancer.  Hodgkins Lymphoma to be exact.  After getting over the initial shock of my diagnosis, I said to myself,  self,  I want to blog about this situation I am in.  I felt that writing about it everyday would make it easier for me to cope with.  Well, as I said, I am late, but I'm now starting to write about it.  I hope to help others get through their battle with various cancers and the necessary treatment that comes with the diagnosis.  My wish is to reach and touch many people through my blog and also have an outlet for myself as I complete my course of treatment.