I’m 18 years old and I have been diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma for 2 weeks now

I am just looking for some people to talk to who on some level know what I am going through :/
I have skype – ellieisnotonfire
and we can go from there
I don’t mind talking to anyone really

osteosarcoma- staying strong, but struggling.

hello! my name is angeline. i am an 18 year old university student who just got diagnosed with osteosarcoma about 3 weeks ago. i have a positive spirit, but staying strong for my friends and family is starting to tear me down. i would really appreciate some support and a friend to talk to, especially a teen/young adult. i have many adults who want to talk, but it just isn’t the same. if anyone is out there wanting to make a friend, please contact me. i would really appreciate some understanding. thank you.

osteosarcoma- staying strong, but struggling.

hello! my name is angeline. i am an 18 year old university student who just got diagnosed with osteosarcoma about 3 weeks ago. i have a positive spirit, but staying strong for my friends and family is starting to tear me down. i would really appreciate some support and a friend to talk to, especially a teen/young adult. i have many adults who want to talk, but it just isn’t the same. if anyone is out there wanting to make a friend, please contact me. i would really appreciate some understanding. thank you.

Osteosarcoma- staying strong, but struggling.

hello! my name is angeline. i am an 18 year old university student who just got diagnosed with osteosarcoma about 3 weeks ago. i have a positive spirit, but staying strong for my friends and family is starting to tear me down. i would really appreciate some support and a friend to talk to, especially a teen/young adult. i have many adults who want to talk, but it just isn’t the same. if anyone is out there wanting to make a friend, please contact me. i would really appreciate some understanding. thank you.

Osteosarcoma- staying strong, but very scared.

hi! my name is angeline and i was diagnosed with osteosarcoma about 3 weeks ago. i am eighteen and have finished my first year at the u of a.i have a positive spirit but there are nights where i can’t help but feel the weight of this cancer on my shoulders. if anyone would like to talk, please contact me! i am in desperate need of someone to understand how i feel and what i am going through.thank you.

im scared

Hi there

My name is Jonaveze, im 18 years old and about 3 weeks ago i was diagnosed with a rare case of lymphoma that the doctors claim to not have much information. I was living in Dubai and ha to return to my home country when I got sick. It took them a long time to find out that it was cancer. I keep all my feelings inside coz i know noone understands, so I was hoping there was someone who understands, who i can talk to. I start my first chemo session on th 18th, im terrified, im scared of losing all my hair, i hate how people look at me.

feel free to give me ur bbm pins or skype names if you wanna talk

Thyroid Cancer

Hello! My name is Renee R. I am 14 years old. This year I was diagnosed with type 1 #diabetes, severe scoliosis and most recently #thyroidcancer. (Ironically I hate needles)! I will be going down to the #mayo clinic on Tuesday, and will get a full neck dissection. What do you guys think of #mayo? It seems like a great place: best in the country and all. I have heard of presidents and royal people going there! I am scarred of going though: I am not friends with iv’s & the surgery will be huge. . These last few months have been really hard on me; i have to get back treatments which really hurt & the diabetes etc. I really appreciate comments! If you want to contact me @ reneeroth8@gmail.com

Thyroid Cancer

Hello! My name is Renee R. I am 14 years old and was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer and cancerous lymph nodes. I will be getting a full neck dissection this coming Tuesday. I will be going down to mayo clinic. I HATE needles and iv’s, though I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes this year. Iv’s I especially hate because the first time I got one was not a good experience or close to it. My dad had thyroid cancer twice. I also have severe scoliosis which I got this year, and I go to Clear Institute 2 times a week to correct that. I also do 2 hours of exersices @ home everyday. Anyways, I am really scared about the thyroid cancer! I appreciate comments. Also, if you want to contact me for any reason reneeroth8@gmail.com

Emma’s Journey

My daughter Emma was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma this last February 2012. She has had a painful long road up to her diagnosis. We are Military and had moved to our current location in Bellevue, Nebraska over the summer of 2011. Emma’s symptoms started in late October. She starting presenting with back pain. After several visits to the Doctor they decided to send her to physical therapy for a pulled muscle. After some weeks had gone by she was getting no relief from Physical Therapy and inflammatory medications. We returned back to the Doctor for more solutions to her pain. Along with her back she had started to notice some hip pain as well. Once again we were referred to the Physical Therapist for further reconditioning. The physical Therapist was puzzled to her diagnosis from her Doctor. She wasn’t getting better and was having more pain and decrease range of motion happening in her leg. Once again we were back in the Doctors office. By now Emma had missed some days from school due to leg weakness, back pain and leg pain. I didn’t know what was happening to her but I did know that whatever it was it was ruining her ability to function in everyday daily activities. She was starting to isolate herself from activities with her friends and things at school. We revisited the Doctor and this time I was armed with questions and demands. The Doctor had ordered a MRI of her back to see if she had a herniated disc and a x-ray of her hip. Her hip pain was becoming unbearable at times. The x-ray came back fine, no noticeable defects or problems. Meanwhile the Doctor had referred us to a Sports Medicine Doctor. We had to wait once again for the appointment. There was no urgency at the time. The Sports Medicine evaluated her and was in agreement with the Pediatrician with it being a muscle problem. He decided to order more views for the MRI. Her back,pelvis,hip. Once again we waited for that appointment, meanwhile she was continuing to be in pain. It was finally appointment day for the MRI. A couple hours later I had received a phone call stating they see some sort of something on her MRI in her Femur. It was possibly a fracture. The following morning we went to the clinic for a CT scan and after her scan we sat for several hours with no news of what is the next step. The Pediatrician, Sports Med Doctor and Radiologist were all in agreement that she was to go immediately to Children’s Hospital in Omaha. They were unsure of what they were looking at on the scans. After several hours and many Doctors later they decided to release her from the hospital. The Hospitalist referred her to a Orthopedic Surgeon and a Pediatric Rhuematologist and all out patient. She went through more tests that following Monday. Between the Orthopedic Surgeon and the Rhuematologist she was diagnosed with a Rhuematological disease. Emma’s pain was very aggressive and it was not consistent with the diagnosis. Over several weeks Emma was getting worse and basically couldn’t walk anymore. I was taking her in to the ER for pain & dehydration. Finally after several ER visits they admitted her. I was so relieved! Finally someone was seeing how much this girl was suffering! We needed a bone biopsy to rule out bone infection so she could take the much need steroids to control her inflammation in her leg which would help with the leg pain. The Pathologist could not give a diagnosis. Still in question what was causing all her pain the Hospitalist called in the Hem/Oncology Doctor to evaluated Emma and all her test to see if they felt they had enough reason to perform another biopsy, this biopsy was more intrusive then the last. It would leave her with a 2 inch scar on her thigh and also preforming other biopsies of bone marrow. They performed the biopsy of her Left femur and it was positive for Ewing’s Sarcoma. Finally we have a diagnosis! We were devastated but now she can be treated with the medications she needs. You are told it’s something else and after awhile you believe it. Emma started her aggressive Chemo treatments. We are all trying to understand why her journey to her diagnosis took so long. With Emma’s story I can only hope that another family doesn’t have to go through what we did and watch for so long their child in pain. She has a long road ahead of her. Reading other stories of cancer survivors gives us hope that she too can beat this!

My Name is Leighton

My name is Leighton, I am 14 years old and when I was two I was diagnosed with Leukemia which I fought for 5 years and when I was 7 I finally beat it. I lived a happy life, finally breathing fresh non-hospitalized air, and started making friends who I could depend on not dieing on me (I made 3 very close friends during the course of my leukemia, 2 of which died) and I was back in school living a normal life. I let my hair grow out long again. I gained back weight, (I was 45-48 pounds on a 4’6 frame) and I no longer needed stupid radiation or chemo. I could walk again and be free again. But two weeks ago that all changed. I was used to my mom always being on guard with me. Any little bruise on my body that stayed for longer than a week she would take me in. And if I ever seemed tired she would give me the third degree and question me because she was so afraid it was something cancer related. She was a single mom raising me at the time and so my entire life all the family I had ever known was her. I never knew my dad or his family so they were out of the picture. My mom was 18 when she had me and her family was never in the picture or there for her. Although they live in southern NJ and we only live in Manhattan, they never took the time to come and see me while I was sick. My mom was all I had while I was sick and in treatment. She’s my knight in shining armor. She was my crazy-b*tch mother fighting for my life, fighting for me just to make sure I was okay and everything was okay. So now that I’ve gotten passed my mother and what she’s like, you might understand why for nearly two weeks (about a month ago) I had been hiding blotchy dark purple bruises around the center of my spine. I thought they were dumb, perhaps the result of messing up in my gymnastics, falling wrong, hurting myself. But by week two i began to get worried. I was going to tell her what was going on by week 2 but I was in a sort of denial because she had always made me so aware of the cancer and the possibility of it coming back so in a way i was very afraid of the fact that it could actually have come back.
I was at a party in Brooklyn with my cousin and about 5 of her closest friends to celebrate her 15th birthday at a pool in this hotel. We were all messing around laughing and just having a good time, and somewhere along the way I got elbowed in the nose. It didn’t hurt too bad, nothign much really, but I ended up getting a nose bleed. So I sat at the side of the pool holding a kleenex to my nose, my head tipped back hoping it would stop.
But it wouldn’t.
My mom got called, she came to pick me up and once again i was hauled to the hospital to get tested again.
It was back.
It is back : (
I’ve been in treatment for about a week and a half now. I reach up and touch a bald head where my chest nut hair used to sit hanging to my butt.
I want to say how I feel but i just don’t know what to say. Everywhere i go people stop and stare. Waitresses and teachers are nicer than every with fake smiles planted on their faces when really I know theyre only being nice incase i die.
I’m so scared. I don’t know what to do.
I wish I ccould be brave and be a trooper but the truth is is that I can’t and I’m so afraid to die. I just started middle school in the fall last year and I don’t want to give up anything to this cancer.
I just don’t know what to do anymore.

All I know is that I have to stay strong. Youre never going to want to be in battle with cancer but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.
This is for all of you newly diagnosed out there. I know youre afraid and i know how you feel. But please listen to these words: BE STRONG.
Because sometimes that’s the only thing that can save you.

~Leighton

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