You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

What is wrong with me?

Like others before me, I have decided to chronicle my experiences with Hodgkins Lymphoma and hope to inspire others going through the same. Tinashe fabulous my rock and queen of blogging just advised me to put all these tears into words as I struggle with this unimaginable journey with cancer. I come from a very big family all over the world whom I value so much that I do not mind sharing and allowing you all to track my progress. I know that I will not be able to speak to you everyday and thank God for the internet you can all follow my journey. I also realize how uncomfortable and difficult it can be to ask questions or just want to know how I am doing. So I will post and you can respond to me or each other and we can have fun with this thing. You can all post a little something in the comments section.....We will be together through my highs and lows and hopefully celebrate victory at the end of the long journey. Sounds great, though I know I can only share a small snippet of my life happenings. With that said, I am writing this so that I can make sense of what is going on in my head and in my life. I hope putting my thoughts down will be some kind of therapeutic process to help me come to terms with all these things that seem like a weird dream that I hope to wake up from at some point. Its June, I just finished my internship as a Clinical Social Worker at a hospital. I had a blast. It was the most exciting and amazing experience of my Master's Program. By the way, I am in the middle of writing my thesis for my Master in Social Work. Aaaargh!!!! so much work and so much going on in my life right now. It worth mentioning that I have been struggling with chronic fatigue and think its all the work and school. Its June 9th weekend and I am feeling sickish like am going to catch a cold and my fabulous daughter Tinashe, wants to take me out for lunch at our favourite Sushi place to breakaway from this thesis pounding on the computer almost driving me nuts. I drag myself out of bed and we end up having a good time and concluded it was the early symptoms of a cold. I take Nyquill before bedtime and hoped to feel better the following day, Sunday. But, I wake up still not feeling great and I have this slight swelling on my left jaw. Crap, I think I have a tooth ache and on Monday I book a dental appointment. The dentist says my teeth were perfect but, he was concerned with the swelling, so he refers me to the emergency to see an Orthodontist. At first he thought it was an abcess which he ruled out shortly after. He then sent me to do a CT Scan which revealed an abnormal tumour. The following day I was scheduled to do a PET Scan. I received an injection of some radioactive sugar which they called 'dye'. This test further confirmed an abnormal tumour that could be malignant. I was immediately referred to see an ENT specialist the following day. Oh Lord! what is going on? The following day I go to see him and my nightmare begins....... See y'all online...

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