We each have a one-in-a-million T-cell lymphoma. What are the chances, eh?!
- Education: Lymphoma in the skin’s a thing. I know, I’d never heard of it either until I got it. Even though there is no cure, I’ve gotten off easy and have not needed treatment. My oncologists at Princess Margaret Hospital think I have a pre-cancerous kind, but even if it’s cancerous, it’s nothing more than a nuisance. I have a lucky horseshoe up me arse. Not everyone with a skin lymphoma is so lucky.
- Hope: This is my dear friend, Colleen. We both have exceptionally rare T-cell lymphomas. And we are in this together. But it’s not fair—unlike me, she has had to fight like hell time and time again. She has defied the odds, though, and she is living a life of gratitude every. single. day.
- Legacy: Lymphomas and other blood cancers are not strangers to my family. “I will walk atop that CN Tower thinking of you, Cousin Nicole.” And I’ll do it on my mum’s 70th birthday; she had multiple myeloma in addition to breast cancers. And there are so many more of us who have or have had other blood cancers...and so many other cancers….Please give, if you can.
