Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Summer of 2010 and the Diagnosis on August 6th

I was just reading my beginning of my blog - wow, I really blurted my words out of my head because I had NO energy to type at that time so I typed FAST (alias I meowed with effort) before I went to bed to rest!!!  I made it by doing that in 3 minutes, grins!! Hope I made sense.
Anyway, every week, I get more tired since about June.  Last July, I learned that my daughter, Leah would get a leadership award on July 7th (on her birthday) at the National Association of the Deaf convention in Philadelphia.  I knew with limited energy I had, I had to go and see her get it.  Luckily, my son, Daniel was able to drive us there.  I was able to hold up well and enjoyed meeting people until the last day, I just crashed.  After coming home, I was having body pains. I had my lymph node biopsy surgery done as planned on July 30th.   I went back to work.  Without warning, I barely was able to drive then on Tuesday, I asked Daniel to drive me to work, suddenly, I became too dizzy, I gave up and went back home.  On August 6th, I got informed that I have Hodgkins Lymphoma.  I was shocked and my life changed in an instant and realize how precious Life is.  I learned that this disease is highly treatable (90%).   I was too weak to go back to work and that was the last time I was in office and did not even had chance to talk to anyone before going on medical leave which I felt was pretty cut off.  But I was feeling in a survivable mode ready to fight.  Next came a full week of tests and doctor appointments to get my ball rolling for treatment.

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