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Hi everyone. I hope everyone is doing well. It has been a while since I put a blog on my page here. I have been a smoker since I was a teenager. You would think with having had cancer, being pregnant and have a boy I would of quit somewhere in there but I still have not. It's 100% true when they say it's an addiction. When I was pregnant I tried quitting cold turkey and that last 6 hours. About a year ago I got a prescription for Chantix and that just curbed the amount I smoked it didn't make m… Continue

Hi everyone. I hope everyone is doing well today and that you had a good day. My day was pretty good didn't do to much today. I had to run dinner out to my husband at work this evening. He was suppose to get off at 5:30 pm but his closing Assistant's daughter called and said her mom was in the hospital. So my husband had to close tonight. His Assistant called him later to say she was home that she has fluid around her heart and they put her on medication and that she can go back to work. My hus… Continue

Well, finally it was a nice day today no rain. Me and my son Nicholas went with my parents to Darrenkamp's (a grocery store) which is not close to our house. On the way home we stopped in a few minutes to see my aunt & uncle. Nicholas had fun playing his great aunt's organ LOL. By the time we got home around 2:00 pm I got Nicholas some lunch and it was time for his nap. I also, laid down for a nap also. It seems I do that every day when he takes his nap by that time I'm worn out. He's such… Continue

Well, I've been up since 3:00 AM. My legs were aching plus eating that pizza late at night didn't help. So I took some advil which hopefully will kick in here. The only real side effect that I've seen that I've had from the chemo/radiation is getting an ear ache just of course in the right ear the side the Hodgkin's was on. I was getting them almost every month. I told my Oncologist I think it stems from the radiation and he said that could be possible and he gave me a name of an ear, nose and… Continue

Hi, my name is Renee and I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in September 2003. It took them almost 2 years to figure out what it was and I had to go through numerous biopsies before they finally found it. The symptoms I had was a lump at first at my shoulder and neck and after work every evening I was falling asleep and I was falling asleep in front of my computer at work. The first biopsy they said it was just like a fatty tumor they also did another biopsy with the same results. For a bit… Continue