The Way Sam Sees It

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 ...

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...