About 2001, I first found out. I had a swelling in my neck, about there, it was pretty big, from the… like the gland is swollen up, and I went to the doctor's, emergency doctor's one night, and he goes to me that it's a, a throat infection. So he give me antibiotics for that. I had antibiotics and the swelling went down, and after about two months it came back again, during the summer, during the summer holidays, and I went back there, and they gave me antibiotics again, and they also told me to go to the doctor's to have a, a throat, like a test and stuff, like my GP. And he referred me to the [place], where I had, they thought it might be TB or a throat infection, or something with asthma or something, so I was in the Asthma Ward for a couple of weeks, and they did a biopsy, because they couldn't figure out what it was, and they cut the side of my neck there, took some blood out, and they also said it was a pretty risky situation because of the nerve down there that controls the whole of my left side, and it could have been dangerous, it could have killed off my whole, like, left side, paralysed me. So it was a pretty dangerous operation. But then I had that done, had the biopsy taken out, and when we found it was cancer, Hodgkin's Disease, and when I had X-rays done, like a CT scan, they noticed I had, also had one in my heart, so one was there, like a banana shape around my heart, of tumour. And that's what made it hard to breathe as well sometimes. There were no other symptoms from it, just the two, or loads of little lymphoma in my neck, swollen glands in my neck, from the infection in my heart. And that's what it was. |