Living with Non-Hodgkin's Disease

for about a year I felt sick kept going to the doctors having trouble breathing etc. the doctor kept giving me antidepressants, one day I went unconcious and had a seizure got to the hospital they said my brain was swollen so they kept me in. My doctor did nothing but monitor me. They did blood test but nothing unusual for a 34 yr old female only very low lymphocytes. anyways a year later on friday aug 13, 2004 almost 1 yr to the day of my seizure I had trouble breathing at work so I went to see my internest and again he says I’ll prescribe you an inhaler and try to excercise I said no somethings wrong. The doctor had an xray room in his office so I said doctor humor me please just take an xray of my chest It really feels like I have a trap door when I lay my head downward to eat my food so he said to make you happy I will. Not 15 min later he called me into the room and said liann we need to get you to a hospital there is something in your chest I said physically or what? he knew at that time I guess malignancy has a kind of form but in any case he couldnt tell me until he was sure. The ambulance came for me we headed for the hospital and just as we got there before any tests were taken the doctor on call told my husband it was cancer. but to see what we were dealing with they needed to do a biopsy. So you see only you as a person knows your body insist on everything humanly possible if you dont feel right the tumor was behind my right lung as big as a softball so the seizure was a probable cause of the tumor. Not getting enough oxygen to my brain because of where the tumor was but everyone in the health care proffession thought of me as a hypocondriac. But I knew myself and it’s a good thing Im persistant I could have lost my life if I went home that faithfull day with an inhaler.