My Life

You know what sucks the most about having cancer? its when u finally become cancer free and now you worry about every little ache and pain u have thinking “is this pain mean the cancer is back?” or when u have a test and u have to wait for the results u think “what if the results aren’t good? what if they show the cancer is back?”

My name is Kirsten and i am a 15 month survivor or Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. im 16 yrs old and i am a junior in High school. when i became sick with cancer i had just entered high school and only been in class for 3 days. i became sick and missed a lot of days of school.  i was diagnosed with Ana-plastic Large Cell Lymphoma which is a non hodgkins lymphoma on 8-26-08 and was diagnosed cancer free 8-26-09 and then 1 yr cancer free on 8-23-10 i go for follow-up appoint ments every 3 months and i am doing better everyday.  but it sucks because i cant live my normal life. i got to doctor after doctor and get test after test done everytime i got to the hospital for a check up and what is worse is that no one at my school can relate to me i am the only teenager at my school that battled cancer and its not fair. not saying i wish everyone got cancer because i dont want that im just saying i wish i could meet more people that live around me that are my age that have when through what i have. im in band which i love very much but i cant some of the fun things. i got to a Website called StarBright World A social network or community for sick teens and their teen siblings the site is www.starbrightworld.org i truely love the friends i made there and everyone knows what everyone is going through. its truely an amazing place to be . if u are between the ages 13-20 u can join the site its a safe site with adults monitoring the chat room 24/7 and everything is nice and protected for ur safty