I finally turned 18 and was diagnosed with cancer the next week…my life is in shambles

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I missed out on the best part of senior year and I’m going to be “that bald girl” at graduation. I’m alone, sick and constantly hurting. I used to be the star athlete of the school now in the last 60 days I’ve dropped 60 pounds of muscle and wont play with the women’s team at my college next year like I hoped. Chemo sucks worse than ANYTHING. And to top it all off, my ex is the only person to stay at my bedside through this, and my heart aches for a relationship with her that’s never gonna happen…do I kill myself or what? Cause

Category: Tags: asked March 13, 2015

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I had cancer at 16, did the spring semester from my hospital room. Had multiple surgeries, procedures, poked, prodded, etc. A year of chemo and radiation, hair fell out, I was bone thin, pale and felt awful all the time. That was 30 years ago. I don't know what you've got and what your prognosis is, but if you can still love and laugh, you should keep going.
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Lymphoma. Right in the center of my chest. They say the tumor is about the size of a football now.