My Experience of Hodgkin's Disease

in responce to Jill's (cant remember ure username) experience of hodgekins disease. Ive been searching all over the net to try and find personal stories about this condition, only to find calous and contradictory medical texts. Finally someone who's actually been through it. Although i myself am not going through this condition, my girlfriend, who i am besotted with is. As i live away from her i lack information on the subject and she doesnt like talking about it but i need to talk to people who have been through this to know how to cope and how to help her. If anyone can offer moral support or informed suggestions id be grateful because im petrefied ...

Having read and commented on one or two of the personal experience stories on DooYoo, I got to thinking about writing my own. I’m a little wary as I’m not the sort to open up about my feelings and this certainly isn’t an experience I’ve discussed much in the past. Apart from putting the past to rest, I hope this may also help people in a similar situation to come to terms with it and give them hope. So with deep breath, here goes… Just over ten years ago as I approached my 25th birthday, everything with the world seemed well. I had a reasonably enjoyable social life and for the first time since leaving school, I had finally ...

There are many different cancers. Mine is of the immune system, more precisely the lymphatic system. It's called Hodgkin's Disease and it attacks, you guessed it, the lymph glands, the same glands affected by glandular fever. I was just heading off to Brighton for a raucous weekend with lots of friends. I was all packed and all excited, all ready to go. It was going to be great. I just had a little thing to do first, I needed to head off to the hospital for the formality of the results of the biopsy of the 'fatty cyst' I'd just had removed from my neck. I nearly didn't bother, so nearly didn't bother; it was going to make me rather late - ...