Going through it again

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Registered: 05-23-2008
Going through it again
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Fri, 05-23-2008 - 6:08pm

Hello. I will just start off by saying that I am fairly young, in my early twenties, and my mom was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2006 - lymphoma to be exact. At first they didn't diagnose it as cancer, and she was diagnosed with vasculitis, which has similar symptoms.

In about March 2006, she was in a coma, and they didn't think she would make it. She miraculously pulled out of it, and they treated her with chemotherapy. She has been improving ever since then, she was finished with chemo about a year ago, June 2007. She can't walk on her own, and she is blind in one eye, but she is doing fairly well.

Well, about 2 weeks ago, she had started having symptoms again, and was getting really worried. They did a PT-scan, and confirmed that she had the same type of cancer again, but not in her brain. In her ovaries and other parts of her blood, I'm not exactly sure where. It's just so hard to go through this again, and I am scared for her and my family.

I have been reading a lot on here, and appreciate this board a lot, and thought I would post my own story. If you have any questions, or advice, or anything else, feel free to let me know. Thank you.

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Registered: 09-06-2007
Mon, 05-26-2008 - 9:19pm

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