After the doctor had done the biopsy, my heart began to have an irregular hearbeat, so I had to stay in the hospital over night. They were giving me EKGs and a heart monitor to wear while I was there. I was bedridden for a few hours because of my heart racing after I had called my job to notify them that I could not work the following day.
Little did I know that I would now have to start to take heart medicine and ecotrin for my blood thinner. I was waiting for my results, but it wound up coming back "inclusive" because of the damaged cells that they had received. So, in order to get a result, I had to go to a surgeon who will take out part of a lymph node and send it out for tests. This was getting more and more serious.
I have a 13 year old daughter who is the love of my life and have been put through enough already. I am a single parent and have been since the day she was born. I have met two guys in my life, which I fell in love with who wanted to marry me, but never took the initiative and broke my heart real bad. (Enough to the point which I wouldn't eat for three months or more-they moved on right away and forgot about me). I worked about four part-time jobs last summer to catch up on the mistakes (and to forget about the last man who hurt me) I made which put us back to live with my parents. Not that I am ungreatful for my parents taking us in, but I want for my daughter and me to live our normal lives together again. I would do anything for my daughter to make her life happy.
Anyways, I went and scheduled my appointment with the surgeon. It was set for the Ash Wednesday.
*To be continued

I never thought that I would see myself writing a blog. I am writing this blog because I am dealing with a personal experience with Hodgkins Lymphoma NS cancer. I was just diagnosed a few days ago, but yet I have not received what stage I am dealing with right now. I need further tests to determine the stage.
This all started a few months ago, when I had decided that I was going to give my kidney to my dad so he can be off of dialysis. I was basically a match until I had taken the CT scan at Northwestern Hospital.
The hospital had called me back saying that they found some enlarged lymph nodes near my esphagous and some abnormal tissues in my right and left breasts. I was very shocked at this discovery. So I called my doctor and had her take a look at it. She sent me in for a mammogram and another CT scan.
The mammogram came back with something still in my left breast, so I went back for another mammogram and it showed an abnormal tissue in my left breast so I had to have an ultrasound. Which told me that I needed a biopsy on it. Still waiting to do that because some other important abnormalities came up on my CT scan.
The found numerous enlarged lymph nodes around my heart and my left lung. I was not liking the feeling of where that was going. I was only 38 years old. I am too young to deal with this. But I had to go for a biopsy near my heart, this put me in a high hope of it being nothing.
To be continued......