Dear Life, It takes perseverance and faith to show up for life after being diagnosed with a chronic disease. I stepped into a hospital ER in Nov 2018. 11 gallons of fluid were found in my lungs. The next eleven days, I had 12 biopsies looking for cancer and two surgeries to put in and take out a big tube connected to a pump to drain fluid. I left hospital with a small “at home” drainage tube in my chest and no diagnosis. This “memory” comes to mind because today I have bloodwork and see the oncologist who in Jan 2020 did a bone marrow biopsy. He found Stage 4 Diffused Large B-Cell Lymphoma.
I am still here. It started with: 11 gallons of fluid, 11 days to remove, in the 11th month, and countless treatments since then. Sounds biblical!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

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