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One Year Anniversary Of Last Chemo Treatment

Hi all! It’s me, Sam. I know it’s been a HOT minute since I’ve posted here, but since it is the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of my finishing chemo I’ve been feeling a little sentimental lately. Anyways, I’ve been thinking a lot about today a year ago and how beyond excited I was to have my very last chemo treatment. So here is a little story of my very last chemo treatment. I am going to be completely honest with y'all here... I have about the absolute WORST memory because let’s be honest chemo brain is a real thing. So I’m gonna do my best telling you all the details about this day. October 4th, 2018: Okay so let’s just say I woke up pretty excited to go to chemo (never thought that would happen), but I had gotten my chemo nurse, Carolyn, a couple small gifts and I could not wait to give them to her. Let's talk about Carolyn for a second. I could go on and on about this woman, but none of the words that I type could ever truly tell you how much she means to me. She was the big...
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Life Lately

I know it has been a while since my last post. To keep you updated, I recently shaved my head. It was definitely time for it to happen. It was a good run, but it had to be done. I am still getting used to it and it still catches me off guard sometimes that I don't have hair. My biggest fear was that I was just going to read cancer patient and everyone would start to look at me with that sympathy look that we all know and hate. So far, that's only happened a few times. It definitely will take some getting used to, but I think it will be a good change... and who knows maybe it'll grow back a different color and curly. It'll be like a game when it starts to grow back. I waited a while for my next post because I wanted to be able to share my second PET scan results with everyone and then I forgot to post it, so now I am posting it really late. Most of you probably saw the results from what my mom posted on Facebook, but it is still exciting so I want to share! ...
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1st round of chemo

Thank you so much for reading my first blog post. I have truly felt so much love and support after my first blog and I cannot thank everyone enough. I am going to try to keep up with my journey here, so I hope you continue to enjoy it! I have 6 rounds of chemo over the next 6 months. Each round is 2 treatments and each treatment is every other week. I just finished my first round of chemo (yay!). Two treatments down, 10 more to go! It's not as bad as it sounds, I promise. My first chemo treatment was Thursday, May 3rd. I had to arrive at 7:30 for labs, I met with my oncologist at 8:30 and started chemo a little after 9. Both my parents came, my little brother, and 2 of my really close friends, Morgan and Brian. I was so lucky to have a group of people with me. Unlucky for them, I was only able to have 2 people sit with me at a time. They didn't seem to mind switching out though. I had the sweetest nurses with me throughout the day. The woman who drew my blood made me ...
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The Story of How I Found Out I Have Cancer

I've had a lot of people ask me recently about how I learned that I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Am I in pain? Did I just start feeling bad? Well, the answer to both of those questions are no. No, I am not in pain (luckily) and I did not start just feeling bad. I am actually pretty lucky that I caught it when I did. So here is my story and my timeline in case you were curious. Hold on tight because it is a pretty long journey that all happened pretty fast. Tuesday- April 17th, 2018 Some of you may or may not know that my mom and I have season tickets at the Fox Theatre. We love going to see plays, so the season tickets normally let us have a mother daughter date night once a month. The play that we were going to see was Something Rotten! This is the first play that we had been to since I had started my new job closer to home. We left right at 5 and were on our way down. With Atlanta traffic, we weren't sure if we were going to able to get down there like we usually do and hav...
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