I am now a 27 year-old graduate student at University of Washington. It was about 2 years ago when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Last academic year had been absolutely frenetic...I think I was trying to prove to myself that I can go back to school again, even though I was not at full health to be honest.
2 weeks ago I had a chance to be in Japan, and I also had a chance to see my doctor. I had X-ray diagnosis, which showed my perfectly beautiful lungs, according to my doctor. Yay!
Other than the visit to my doctor in Japan, I have also been going to Hall Health at my school quite often. I wished that I didn't have to go there so often, but I had constant light fever on and off, flu-like cold, and my thyroid hormone level had to be checked every few months or so.
So yes, I seem to have survived the cancer so far. But life is also not all about cancer. Since I started school there were so many times I felt like I wanted to cry because I wasn't feeling well that I didn't feel like I could finish homework, I could produce results for research, and I am not viable for social life. But when I face those difficulties, I try to tell my self that all these troubles are still incomparable to the craziness I experienced in chemotherapy, that I should be able to handle them since I've survived the worst. At least for now.
