Hi! My name is Lavinia, a 43 years old women who was diagnosed with Hodgkin classic Lymphoma stage 3/4 .It is second week since I was diagnosed with this type of cancer ( Hodking lymphoma) .I m. Starting t
be positive and try to spoke with my friends about my disease and with you….: can please share with me who was your experience and who you manage? Who was the chemotherapy? After the treatment you get cure? I know I go to far away but I have a child and I w
to live many years !
Hi LVI and a warm welcome to this corner of the Community although I am always sorry to see folks joining us. I am Mike and I help out around our various Lymphoma groups.
I don’t have Hodgkin's Lymphoma but I was diagnosed way back in 1999 at 43 with a rare, incurable but treatable type of Low Grade Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma eventually reaching Stage 4a in late 2013 so although my Lymphoma ‘type’ is different I do appreciate the challenges of this journey rather well.
The initial diagnosis is challenging but the more you talk with people about the condition and get started your treatment the more the noise between your ears will calm down.
I had a different treatment journey but on the whole I did ok although my type of Lymphoma is incurable I am over 7 years out from my last treatment, I turned 67 back in November and I am doing great (you can see my story in the link at the bottom)
Treatment can be challenging but tends to be do-able with some Side Effects but we could line up 10 people with the same condition on the same treatment and we would get 10 differently stories……. just take each day as it comes.
The initial hope is that your Hodgkins Lymphoma can be put into a long remission and the longer this last the less chance that it will come back.
As you get ready for treatment you may want to look at the following link Top Tips for the day of your Chemotherapy as this will help you get yourself ready.
Always around to help more or just to chat.
