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Mandy TN United States female Living with Hodgkin Lymphoma for 8 years, 6 months Age: 33 I have what? Cancer?! I didn't expect to hear that at all. I was diagnosed in the spring of 2002. I began chemo within the month, which lasted for six months and then went on to radiation. I was actually excited about that, thinking that it was almost over! I didn't lose too much of my hair and I will be able to get back to my life as a wife and mommy to my two-year-old son. But, no such luck. On the last day of radiation, the doctor told me that I had another lump. I had relapsed. So, for a patient like me, that means more chemo and a stem cell transplant. I think that was the scariest thing I had ever heard, stem cell transplant. I began learning about the procedure and it sounded terrible to me. But the toughest thing to hear was I could not have anymore children. I wasn't ready to stop having kids and a stem cell transplant meant no more kids. I went into the transplant with a broken heart. But...I survived it and I am here today. And what's the best part you ask? The statistics don't always agree with what God wants for us. Three months after I was released from the hospital, I found out I was having a baby. I was pregnant. My daughter was born on May 1, 2004. She is happy, healthy and I'm doing great. There is hope and I believe in miracles. |
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