I was diagnosed with Primary Mediastinal Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma on November 27th of 2020(Black Friday). They had found an 18 cm mass in my chest that was pressing on my lungs and my heart.

 

I started rapidly losing weight over quarantine even though I was constantly eating. By the fall of 2020 I had little to no appetite. Once I started developing night sweats/constant fevers I left school to go home.

 

 I weighed about 79 lbs come November.

By the time they had found the tumor and rushed me to the hospital to get biopsied my lung had collapsed. I was put on an oxygen tank and given a chest tube to drain my lungs of the excess fluid that was a result of the tumor pressing on my lungs all those months.

 

After I was given a blood transfusion and some hefty steroids I was finally stable enough to start treatment. Now, Six months and Six rounds of R/EPOCH chemotherapy later,

I am finally cancer free!

 

Now that I am healthy enough to finish my degree I am so excited to share my progress in a new Independent Study I have started. This collection will be focused on my experience and how I coped with getting cancer at 21 years old.

 

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