The Discovery

I have a mission; at least for the next 6 months. My mission is to recover from Hodgkin's Lymphoma with the grace and dignity of those who have gone before me.

March 25th, 3 days after my 42nd birthday, I checked myself into Kaiser Woodland Hill's ER at 8:00 a.m. complaining of excruciating flank pain. It all started around 5:30 a.m. as my husband left for work. I thought the pain would go away but it got increasingly worse, so I decided to get some medical intervention. I'm not one to plug up a hospital's busy ER with minor complaints, so I made sure to wait for the pain to be unbearable. Smart. Fortunately for me, Kaiser's ER wasn't busy so I was admitted within 15 minutes of arrival.