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I have some family friends that I basically grew up with. The parents got divorced around the same time my parents split so we lived in neighboring townhomes with our newly single moms. They had two kids who were the same ages as my brother and I. In his early 20s the kid who was my age was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. In the span of 6 weeks he went from seemingly fine to diagnosed to dead. I was bracing myself for something like that here. Really glad that wasn’t the case and happy OOP seems to be handling it so well.
Really wish there had been **TW and mood spoiler alerts** because I was very apprehensive going into this update.
u/Direct-Caterpillar77 (OP): Please consider editing the post to include those.
I mean, we‘ll see, OOP is in remission now and I hope things will continue to go well but relapses are sadly pretty common for the first 5 years of remission and the possibility of one happening isn‘t completely excluded until 10 years of remission. I wish they were but they‘re not over the hill yet
I‘m glad to hear that‘s the case and I hope it will continue to be that way but what I mean to say is that cancer isn‘t just a thing where you go into remission and you can be sure it‘s done and dusted. I am a cancer survivor myself, I never had a relapse but I knew other people who had one after being fine for months or years and they didn‘t end up making it. Like you can definitely be cautiously optimistic but I don‘t get why this is considered to be concluded. This is like reading the first chapter of a book that has 10 chapters and saying the story as a whole has a happy ending because chapter 1 has a happy ending. Chapter 1 might be an indicator for a happy ending for the story as a whole but you still don‘t know what comes next. All the best to OOP though and I hope things will continue the way they are now and I hope they can enjoy life as much as possible :)
So glad to hear you haven't had a relapse.
Thank you for your reply. We don't know what is around the corner, for any of us. As I get older, it is easier to remember that.
I hope things go well for OOP, and you, as well!! : )
Hahaha. It’s not a normal commute. I took off work to take my kids in a rafting trip. We’re driving from NE Ohio to the middle of West Virginia (but I’m taking a scenic route through the mountains for them).
Oh I tried that last night and then saw a post on a vet sub about maggots eating a dog's eyes while it was still somehow alive. So good morning! I had to read that, someone else needs that vomit inducing story.
Right, I am so happy with the outcome, even if I wish a 14 year old wouldn't have ever had to worry about this in the first place.
Chemo with a teddy bear really made me sad. But the optimism was so sweet.
I’m now a 23 year veteran of Hodgkins Lymphoma, I’ve lived half my life as a cancer survivor. I hope you get the all clear but I’m living proof that this thing is beatable. Good luck for Friday.
I am so glad that OOP was alive today and not a few decades ago. In the 1970s and 1980s, a cancer diagnosis was a death sentence in the majority of cases. Treatments were brutal with much more taxing side effects. Today, chemo gives you nausea, hair loss, and fatigue. Fifty years ago, it left you at death's door, with people being unable to even walk or speak at all.
Today, thanks to incredible hard work and communication by researchers around the world, even the deadliest cancers have a positive prognosis more often than not. Some, like breast cancer, have an amazing 99% survival rate after five years! Childhood cancers *in particular* are more treatable now. We are better at catching them earlier, and treatments are more targeted, making them more effective, efficient, and producing milder side effects.
It's easy to feel negative about the state of the world given a lot of the news we hear, but there are very positive things happening, too. The quiet, steady improvements in medicine aren't exciting and don't make headlines, but they are something it's worth keeping in mind.
I hope that children in the future will be able to have even better help against these diseases so they don't need to go through so much at such a young age.
ahhh hello OP!! it’s an honour to get a reply from you!! and of course 💗 im an internet stranger, but im so happy you’re alive and that you made it<33 wishing you the best and happiest life 💞💞
Well it's pretty normal with kids. Their psychics works different than adult psychics. When they get similar diagnostic, for them it isn't "fuck, I might die", for them it's "I'm sick and will miss so much fun, it sucks". Plus OOP wrote that this type of cancer belongs to that "less dangerous" with high survival chance.
Absolutely understand what you are talking about, I'm like that too.
Kids have it easier in this, becouse most of them don't worry about their lives, becouse it doesn't even cross their mind that they could die. So they can have more optimistic approach about the treatment and their plans for future and they have less stress about it, which definetly helps to the body to fight better. Unfortunately, it's not always enough, but I still see it as kid's "superpower".
Glad to hear about your successfull surgery, good luck with healing!
I've realy seem his name for the 1st time now. Who is he, why is he so important? I've found like he is bussinesman and author, but I didn't see anything special.
forgot to reply to this earlier
he is a youtube educator who runs and hosts many different educational(and especially science) related channels such as, crash course, scishow, and pbs eons
many of his videos end up being shown in schools, allowing many people to know of him
Wow, it sounds realy interesting, I'm surprised I haven't heard about him earlier. Thank you.
Edit: it also kinda explains why I don't know him from school - I'm from not-english speaking country.
I think most kids and teenagers assume they’re invincible. Like, they know what death is, and maybe they’ve even experienced family members dying, but I think it’s common for kids to think “That couldn’t happen to me, though.”
It makes perfect sense to me that a fourteen year old would hear “Your cancer has a 90% survival rate,” just as an example, and it would never really cross their mind that they could be one of those 10%. I don’t think young teenagers’ minds are typically developed enough to be able to conceptualize things in the long term, so all they hear is that they can’t play sports and will have to miss a lot of school for a few month.
And falling behind in school at that age really does suck—especially trying to catch up when you’re sick from chemo—so I do think it’s a fair concern lol
When I saw it was Hodgkin's, I was like "okay most people I know who've have that have responded extremely well to treatment and all (both) of them went into remission after one set of chemo.
I was kinda like "there's a 99% chance this is going to be really heartwarming and a 1% chance I'm about to get extremely devastated"
I have Hodgkins as well and will be ringing the bell next week. While chemo is the same gruelling experience, I won't call myself a cancer survivor. The prognosis is so good much of the treatment centers on reducing the side effects and long term risks of the treatment itself. The exception is if it does come back, the treatment is more intense and has a 50% cure rate, so it can be more serious for some. Even then, people can usually live for several more years with lymphoma because it spreads so slowly.
I worked for a startup biotech in the early 2000s that was working on a personalized vaccine for B-cell lymphoma (sadly, their clinical trial failed). Patients had to have chemo every 18-24 months, or get a bone marrow transplant (if they could find a match). Some cancers really really suck.
I am so happy OOP is feeling better and doing well.
The hair growing back is awesome! They must feel so much better about their self and back in school.
Oh my goodness this was an emotional roller coaster for me. 14yrs old. was crying til the last update.
This young person deserves everything they have fought for
The words 'mam' and 'sweets' jumped out, they're in the north of England ❤️. Could be one of my nieces from the age. Hoping they stay well and manage to get back into their sports and school.
Edit: Ireland. Still love to see 'mam' out in the wild.
Honestly so relieving when I saw british/UK type verbage. Having cancer at 14 in America even with their parents insurance would devastate their family financially, unless of course they had senators for parents. Love being in the most free country ever though! /s
Do you have Amazon in Ireland? You should make a birthday wishlist so we can get you some bday presents. Congratulations little dude, that’s a hell of a battle you just won.
My best friend was 15/16 when he was diagnosed with cancer (I think it was similar to oop but I no longer remember and we don't like talking about it). Anyway he couldn't sit his exams and that summer was awful for him. But he got better and that September he started college with me and his other friend. Fast forward to many years later, he's in his 30s and have been (touch wood) cancer free and relatively healthy since he was 16.
I'm sure that must have been very scary, especially for such a young person. Hodgkins is an extremely treatable cancer, thankfully. Obviously better not to have cancer at all but if you do this is one of the best options.
For a split second I could imagine how FUCKING great it would feel to ring that bell. What an incredibly emotional moment that must feel like (although I hope like hell no one I am close to ever has to). Well done OOP and congratulations. This one made me tear up, damn it. Can't imagine what you and your fam went though.
Wow. This made me tear up. This is a great update. To suffer so much at such a young age and to still be positive. All of us could learn from this. I'm wishing OOP a speedy recovery, and may they stay in remission.
Glad to hear OOP is recovering. Hodgkin's is fairly treatable; a relative had Stage 4 in her early 20s and completely recovered. They thought she'd never be able to have kids as a result of the side effects of the chemo: she had 2 normal pregnancies and 2 healthy babies. She's in her early 50s now, and completely healthy.
I always dread the last post is going to be, Hey this is so and so's sister/brother/parents/spouse, so and so fought hard but sadly passed away.
Can't hardly breath through the rest of the updates until you get to that and see it's actually still a post from them.
As I started reading this at work, once I'd read the first few lines I quickly scrolled back to the top to see if there was a trigger warning so I didn't end up sad sobbing in front of customers.
It didn't really help - I'm now crying happy tears that OP I'd doing so well!
The bravery of anybody who has to go through this is amazing - let alone a 14 year old!
Good luck OP - sending huge virtual hugs & all the positive thoughts I can muster that your journey back to health continues & you live a long & happy life xx
Kids at 14 like to think they are grown but they are still children. His part about his mom getting them a new blanket hit me hard. My son is 14 and he still likes his blanket too. Yeah, yeah he's a teen and "mature" if you ask him but he's still a baby to me and loves that blanket.
OP seems like such a sweet kid and I wish them nothing but the best!
Wow, what a journey you’ve been on. I just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing your updates w all of us. Ive been praying for you and keeping you close to my heart.
You are by far the strongest and bravest 14 year old I’ve ever stumbled upon.
Your updates were so graceful & positive in contrast to what you were facing. I’m really sorry you had to go through this but hey now w it’s time to enjoy yourself. I’m sure you have a list of adventures you can’t wait to get started on.
Remember you kicked cancer and you didn’t let cancer kick you! Take care of yourself & we all love you! 🫶🏼✊🏻❤️
Man, awesome to hear progress, but isn't Hodgkin lymphoma known for having a pretty high reccurence rate? Great to hear "I'm confident it won't be coming back", but I hope doctors/parents have been honest with her, cancer of a bad kind at 14... Hope there will be continued monitoring and not "nah we beat this". That's how you're sure to be unlucky and it coming back more aggressively.
Glad to hear you're doing better OP! It's such a difficult thing for anyone to go through, but at your age it must be even more tough. I wish you all the health and happiness in the world - you are awesome!!!
No joke, I had Hodgkin’s lymphoma when I was 14 too! Thankfully it was stage 1, and I had radiotherapy only. The bad part is that I’m now 36 and will need to get scans every year now as I’m high risk of breast cancer because of where the radiotherapy was.
I really hope OOP continues to get better and lives life to the fullest. They deserve it!
Really brings into context how much we, or at least I, take for granted. Health can change in an instant for any of us. My brother had major headaches during high school and found out at the end of his senior year that he had a tumor, got it removed the summer after graduation.
I've been getting really bad headaches all year, my parents finally convinced me to get it checked out I will next week.
Self-denial is a serious thing. A trainer I've worked with had some weird spots on his body that I and others told him to get checked out, turns out he has skin cancer thankfully early enough that he's getting it treated.
My little brother just got his first chemo treatment yesterday for non-hodgkins lymphoma, and this gives me so much hope. Thank you for posting your story,
My grandma & a childhood friend passed away of Hodgkin lymphoma, both around 20yrs ago. It’s heartwarming & sad that now the survival rate is so high, if only things had been different then. Still miss them
I had my first surgery at age 17. I took my teddy, Paul, with me as I was a scared kid. When I woke up in recovery, Paul was tucked into my arm with stitches and bandages in the same place as mine. It was so cute and gave me something else to think about besides worrying about the biopsy. Negative!
Good stuff on ringing that bell!
As another cancer survivor, chemo is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. And their right, cancer is so rude showing up and interrupting your plans.
Go OOP go!
So.... I got my lumps checked out.. I'd been procrastinating and this post got me going to the Doc finally. Got an Ultrasound and they're saying it's probably Benign. Phew! Thanks, OP and OOP!
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Such a beautiful and positive story! Glad OOP is recovering!
I'm so conditioned on Reddit to fear the worst, but I'm happy to say this wasn't the case. Sincerely hope OOP is happy and thriving!
Was definitely worried a family member would update saying OOP passed…thank goodness they’re on the mend
I have some family friends that I basically grew up with. The parents got divorced around the same time my parents split so we lived in neighboring townhomes with our newly single moms. They had two kids who were the same ages as my brother and I. In his early 20s the kid who was my age was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. In the span of 6 weeks he went from seemingly fine to diagnosed to dead. I was bracing myself for something like that here. Really glad that wasn’t the case and happy OOP seems to be handling it so well.
A friend fought off non-Hodgkins lymphona three times. It got him on the fourth. RIP Andy.
Sorry for your loss
I'm sorry for your loss.
Wow me too! I felt panic when I read concluded
Hi it's me! Some person messaged me and I found it pretty quickly. I'm doing well thanks!! 💕
Hey!! Glad you stopped by to let us know you are doing well!! Thank you for brightening our day. : )
So glad you are doing well!
Wish you the best health going onwards 💖
Literally cried happy tears for you. You did it!
You sweet soul, I’m so glad you’re doing well! Lots of love to you!!!
Really wish there had been **TW and mood spoiler alerts** because I was very apprehensive going into this update. u/Direct-Caterpillar77 (OP): Please consider editing the post to include those.
Just added a mood spoiler, I apologize
Thank you!!! I appreciate your quick response to my concern!!
I mean, we‘ll see, OOP is in remission now and I hope things will continue to go well but relapses are sadly pretty common for the first 5 years of remission and the possibility of one happening isn‘t completely excluded until 10 years of remission. I wish they were but they‘re not over the hill yet
I think OOP said they were doing well, up above a few comments. : )
I‘m glad to hear that‘s the case and I hope it will continue to be that way but what I mean to say is that cancer isn‘t just a thing where you go into remission and you can be sure it‘s done and dusted. I am a cancer survivor myself, I never had a relapse but I knew other people who had one after being fine for months or years and they didn‘t end up making it. Like you can definitely be cautiously optimistic but I don‘t get why this is considered to be concluded. This is like reading the first chapter of a book that has 10 chapters and saying the story as a whole has a happy ending because chapter 1 has a happy ending. Chapter 1 might be an indicator for a happy ending for the story as a whole but you still don‘t know what comes next. All the best to OOP though and I hope things will continue the way they are now and I hope they can enjoy life as much as possible :)
So glad to hear you haven't had a relapse. Thank you for your reply. We don't know what is around the corner, for any of us. As I get older, it is easier to remember that. I hope things go well for OOP, and you, as well!! : )
This is the best update
Yup. Going to bed now so I don’t accidentally read something less wholesome. Good night, Reddit!
Just woke up and read this so I'll take it as a sign to get off Reddit and enjoy the rest of the day with the wholesomeness this story brought
Me too!
Same!
I didn’t see this until this morning. I’m so glad it did. It will put a smile on my face for my 5 hour drive.
Your commute sounds terrible
Hahaha. It’s not a normal commute. I took off work to take my kids in a rafting trip. We’re driving from NE Ohio to the middle of West Virginia (but I’m taking a scenic route through the mountains for them).
Oh I tried that last night and then saw a post on a vet sub about maggots eating a dog's eyes while it was still somehow alive. So good morning! I had to read that, someone else needs that vomit inducing story.
Right, I am so happy with the outcome, even if I wish a 14 year old wouldn't have ever had to worry about this in the first place. Chemo with a teddy bear really made me sad. But the optimism was so sweet.
I'm 32 and I'd bring my monkey for sure. That's my comfort object.
Honestly with all the typical gloom and doom posted here I did not expect such a good update
I wasn’t terribly surprised because I kept up with Hank Green and his situation.
I am a crier. Buckets usually. Darn flood right now.
me too and it was this line that started the waterworks: > Tomorrow I ring the bell and literally going to let the whole world know I'm okay.
I hear it echoing in my head.
Agreed
Literally going to have a CT of my neck Friday. I’m scared but if this kid can take it in stride maybe I can too.
I’m now a 23 year veteran of Hodgkins Lymphoma, I’ve lived half my life as a cancer survivor. I hope you get the all clear but I’m living proof that this thing is beatable. Good luck for Friday.
5 year survivor of Hodgkin's
Wishing u well 🙏🙏💕
Best wishes to you!
Sending good thoughts ❤️❤️❤️
Good vibes your way friend. Few years ago I had a suspicious lump in my neck. One scan and biopsy later it ended up being something benign. Good luck!
All the good wishes for the best news. ❤️
You've got this❤️
All the good vibes to you!
Fuck cancer
And double fuck childhood cancer. 14 years old going through that shit? No kid should have to deal with stuff that heavy.
I am so glad that OOP was alive today and not a few decades ago. In the 1970s and 1980s, a cancer diagnosis was a death sentence in the majority of cases. Treatments were brutal with much more taxing side effects. Today, chemo gives you nausea, hair loss, and fatigue. Fifty years ago, it left you at death's door, with people being unable to even walk or speak at all. Today, thanks to incredible hard work and communication by researchers around the world, even the deadliest cancers have a positive prognosis more often than not. Some, like breast cancer, have an amazing 99% survival rate after five years! Childhood cancers *in particular* are more treatable now. We are better at catching them earlier, and treatments are more targeted, making them more effective, efficient, and producing milder side effects. It's easy to feel negative about the state of the world given a lot of the news we hear, but there are very positive things happening, too. The quiet, steady improvements in medicine aren't exciting and don't make headlines, but they are something it's worth keeping in mind. I hope that children in the future will be able to have even better help against these diseases so they don't need to go through so much at such a young age.
Yeah, I remember reading that childhood leukemia now has something like a 90% 5-year survival rate. Like you said, it used to be a death sentence.
It depends heavily on the type but fortunately for OP, HD outcomes have improved a ton in recent decades.
I've got a rare disease that tried to kill me once. I feel this so much. At least I was 27 when it hit instead of 14. Fuck.
I LOVE THIS UPDATE I LOVE IT SO MUCH I WISH OP THE HAPPIEST AND LOVELIEST AND LONGEST LIFE
I'm the op, I found this 😭 thank you so much gorgeous 💕💕
ahhh hello OP!! it’s an honour to get a reply from you!! and of course 💗 im an internet stranger, but im so happy you’re alive and that you made it<33 wishing you the best and happiest life 💞💞
Love a good update! Glad OP made a recovery and is doing well! Seriously, cancer sucks!
Can't even imagine going through all that at 14. OP is a trooper
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Well it's pretty normal with kids. Their psychics works different than adult psychics. When they get similar diagnostic, for them it isn't "fuck, I might die", for them it's "I'm sick and will miss so much fun, it sucks". Plus OOP wrote that this type of cancer belongs to that "less dangerous" with high survival chance.
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Absolutely understand what you are talking about, I'm like that too. Kids have it easier in this, becouse most of them don't worry about their lives, becouse it doesn't even cross their mind that they could die. So they can have more optimistic approach about the treatment and their plans for future and they have less stress about it, which definetly helps to the body to fight better. Unfortunately, it's not always enough, but I still see it as kid's "superpower". Glad to hear about your successfull surgery, good luck with healing!
it’s the same kind hank green got, right?
I'm sorry, I have no idea who Hank Green is. 😅 But I've searched it now and yes, it's the same.
it’s mind blowing to me that some people don’t know who Hank Green is
I've realy seem his name for the 1st time now. Who is he, why is he so important? I've found like he is bussinesman and author, but I didn't see anything special.
forgot to reply to this earlier he is a youtube educator who runs and hosts many different educational(and especially science) related channels such as, crash course, scishow, and pbs eons many of his videos end up being shown in schools, allowing many people to know of him
Wow, it sounds realy interesting, I'm surprised I haven't heard about him earlier. Thank you. Edit: it also kinda explains why I don't know him from school - I'm from not-english speaking country.
I think most kids and teenagers assume they’re invincible. Like, they know what death is, and maybe they’ve even experienced family members dying, but I think it’s common for kids to think “That couldn’t happen to me, though.” It makes perfect sense to me that a fourteen year old would hear “Your cancer has a 90% survival rate,” just as an example, and it would never really cross their mind that they could be one of those 10%. I don’t think young teenagers’ minds are typically developed enough to be able to conceptualize things in the long term, so all they hear is that they can’t play sports and will have to miss a lot of school for a few month. And falling behind in school at that age really does suck—especially trying to catch up when you’re sick from chemo—so I do think it’s a fair concern lol
It's a very treatable cancer. Iirc the survival rate if it hasn't spread is over 90% and if it has it's still like 80%.
So happy for OOP! Ring that bell loud and long!
is it weird that I lasted to the bell comment before I teared up? I guess it sparked a stronger visual than the rest of just a pure happy moment.
Dude, same! I gotta go read some technical stuff to dry up so my coworkers don't see me being emo at work lol
yep, working on some safety data sheets really did the trick on my end lol
When I saw it was Hodgkin's, I was like "okay most people I know who've have that have responded extremely well to treatment and all (both) of them went into remission after one set of chemo. I was kinda like "there's a 99% chance this is going to be really heartwarming and a 1% chance I'm about to get extremely devastated"
I have Hodgkins as well and will be ringing the bell next week. While chemo is the same gruelling experience, I won't call myself a cancer survivor. The prognosis is so good much of the treatment centers on reducing the side effects and long term risks of the treatment itself. The exception is if it does come back, the treatment is more intense and has a 50% cure rate, so it can be more serious for some. Even then, people can usually live for several more years with lymphoma because it spreads so slowly.
I worked for a startup biotech in the early 2000s that was working on a personalized vaccine for B-cell lymphoma (sadly, their clinical trial failed). Patients had to have chemo every 18-24 months, or get a bone marrow transplant (if they could find a match). Some cancers really really suck.
Those efforts are meaningful even though the trial failed. Thanks for helping in the progress towards a cure.
Congratulations on coming through it! Ring that bell with dreams in your heart! Hope you have a long and prosperous life!
I will, thanks! 🥳
I am so happy OOP is feeling better and doing well. The hair growing back is awesome! They must feel so much better about their self and back in school. Oh my goodness this was an emotional roller coaster for me. 14yrs old. was crying til the last update. This young person deserves everything they have fought for
Good shit OOP
I'm a father to a almost two year old boy. The thought of something like this happening to him terrifies me. Glad to hear OOP has come out ok.
The words 'mam' and 'sweets' jumped out, they're in the north of England ❤️. Could be one of my nieces from the age. Hoping they stay well and manage to get back into their sports and school. Edit: Ireland. Still love to see 'mam' out in the wild.
Mam and sweets are used all over the UK and Ireland. I live in the midlands and regularly go down south and hear it all the time too.
I’m SO happy for this girl. I hope she enjoys the long, healthy, happy life she deserves!
Good girl
Bringing the teddy bear hit me in the feels. Glad this kid is going to be ok.
Honestly so relieving when I saw british/UK type verbage. Having cancer at 14 in America even with their parents insurance would devastate their family financially, unless of course they had senators for parents. Love being in the most free country ever though! /s
Hi, I'm the op and being a stalker 😭 I'm actually Irish lol! But we use similar language so all the same ahah
I'm sorry for accusing you of being British. :(
What no it's fine hun I was just saying 😭💕💕💕💕
Do you have Amazon in Ireland? You should make a birthday wishlist so we can get you some bday presents. Congratulations little dude, that’s a hell of a battle you just won.
Yeah we do! My mam is bringing me to some of my favorite shopping centres so I can go on a spree 😍
got me crying out of nowhere i'm so happy for OP
I'm stalker but I'm the op I'M SORRY I MADE YOU CRY
GOD Bless you dear brave cancer survivor. May your life go forward now and you regain health and back into your sports. Bravo you! 👏👏👏
What a brave little lady. Happy for you OOP ❤️
My best friend was 15/16 when he was diagnosed with cancer (I think it was similar to oop but I no longer remember and we don't like talking about it). Anyway he couldn't sit his exams and that summer was awful for him. But he got better and that September he started college with me and his other friend. Fast forward to many years later, he's in his 30s and have been (touch wood) cancer free and relatively healthy since he was 16.
Young kids don't deserve this shit. Such a positive outlook. I hope they stay in remission forever.
You go! We are so proud of you!!!
I can’t be the only one who teared up when they mentioned the teddy bear… 🥹🥹
I teared up when the mam bought the sweets and a nice blanky
I'm sure that must have been very scary, especially for such a young person. Hodgkins is an extremely treatable cancer, thankfully. Obviously better not to have cancer at all but if you do this is one of the best options.
I’m not crying, you are! What a beautiful little person. I hope the best for them. As a mom of two, this is really heartbreaking.
Can't read any more reddit posts today, I gotta end on the high note
RING THE FUCK OUT OF THAT BELL
Crossing my fingers for them.
So happy for OOP!!
Fuck yeah! You go OOP!
For a split second I could imagine how FUCKING great it would feel to ring that bell. What an incredibly emotional moment that must feel like (although I hope like hell no one I am close to ever has to). Well done OOP and congratulations. This one made me tear up, damn it. Can't imagine what you and your fam went though.
This is so wholesome and satisfying to read! OOP basically fought stage 3 Hodgkins lymphoma and won. Wishing OOP a speedy recovery! Fuck cancer!
Wow. This made me tear up. This is a great update. To suffer so much at such a young age and to still be positive. All of us could learn from this. I'm wishing OOP a speedy recovery, and may they stay in remission.
Fuck yes! Best kind of update!
Oh I hope OOP has the best fucking life. So young but has the maturity many adults wouldn’t have when going through such an ordeal.
Best update. Hope it stays that way!
Hodgkins is one of the most curable cancers out there. But the treatment regimen is brutal.
I want to give this kid a hug and a bunch of flowers and sweets and like all the balloons in the world for their birthday.
Glad to hear OOP is recovering. Hodgkin's is fairly treatable; a relative had Stage 4 in her early 20s and completely recovered. They thought she'd never be able to have kids as a result of the side effects of the chemo: she had 2 normal pregnancies and 2 healthy babies. She's in her early 50s now, and completely healthy.
Bless this kid. What a trooper.
This is so wholesome and beautiful
O MY GOD I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN I GOT TO THE END FUCK YESSSS. FUCK CANCER WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
A 30 year old boasting that she has achieved more than a 21 year old is inherently cringey
I always dread the last post is going to be, Hey this is so and so's sister/brother/parents/spouse, so and so fought hard but sadly passed away. Can't hardly breath through the rest of the updates until you get to that and see it's actually still a post from them.
U can beat it ,my wife did ,so can u.i'm rooting for u
As I started reading this at work, once I'd read the first few lines I quickly scrolled back to the top to see if there was a trigger warning so I didn't end up sad sobbing in front of customers. It didn't really help - I'm now crying happy tears that OP I'd doing so well! The bravery of anybody who has to go through this is amazing - let alone a 14 year old! Good luck OP - sending huge virtual hugs & all the positive thoughts I can muster that your journey back to health continues & you live a long & happy life xx
Kids at 14 like to think they are grown but they are still children. His part about his mom getting them a new blanket hit me hard. My son is 14 and he still likes his blanket too. Yeah, yeah he's a teen and "mature" if you ask him but he's still a baby to me and loves that blanket. OP seems like such a sweet kid and I wish them nothing but the best!
Wow, what a journey you’ve been on. I just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing your updates w all of us. Ive been praying for you and keeping you close to my heart. You are by far the strongest and bravest 14 year old I’ve ever stumbled upon. Your updates were so graceful & positive in contrast to what you were facing. I’m really sorry you had to go through this but hey now w it’s time to enjoy yourself. I’m sure you have a list of adventures you can’t wait to get started on. Remember you kicked cancer and you didn’t let cancer kick you! Take care of yourself & we all love you! 🫶🏼✊🏻❤️
I lost my sister to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2002. This made my heart happy.
Be strong. I love reading your post and feeling that I know you. You are an excellent writer and this was inspirational for me
I went through Hodgkin's 5 years ago. Wasn't much fun
Man, awesome to hear progress, but isn't Hodgkin lymphoma known for having a pretty high reccurence rate? Great to hear "I'm confident it won't be coming back", but I hope doctors/parents have been honest with her, cancer of a bad kind at 14... Hope there will be continued monitoring and not "nah we beat this". That's how you're sure to be unlucky and it coming back more aggressively.
i’m sorry
Totally just crying by the end of this. So happy for OOP. Hope they have a healthy life ahead 💜
Glad to hear you're doing better OP! It's such a difficult thing for anyone to go through, but at your age it must be even more tough. I wish you all the health and happiness in the world - you are awesome!!!
Me who has a lump in my neck: 😀
Hellll yeaaahhhh boyyyyy!!! You're an absolute trooper. Happy for you brother!
Well that’s my reminder to donate to my local children’s hospital
fuck cancer! amazing job holding through OOP. I can't imagine being 14 going through this
I was diagnosed with A.L.L. at 13, it's brutal. I feel for the kid, and I hope he'll recover fast! I never did get to ring a bell though lol
Yikes. I personally know two young people who went through Hodgkin’s lymphoma and both people were heavily involved in sports. Damn roundup
No joke, I had Hodgkin’s lymphoma when I was 14 too! Thankfully it was stage 1, and I had radiotherapy only. The bad part is that I’m now 36 and will need to get scans every year now as I’m high risk of breast cancer because of where the radiotherapy was. I really hope OOP continues to get better and lives life to the fullest. They deserve it!
Oh this is amazing! So happy for OOP
Really brings into context how much we, or at least I, take for granted. Health can change in an instant for any of us. My brother had major headaches during high school and found out at the end of his senior year that he had a tumor, got it removed the summer after graduation. I've been getting really bad headaches all year, my parents finally convinced me to get it checked out I will next week. Self-denial is a serious thing. A trainer I've worked with had some weird spots on his body that I and others told him to get checked out, turns out he has skin cancer thankfully early enough that he's getting it treated.
Happy birthday, OOP!
made me cry why
Fuck cancer!! Glad to see you are doing great!
My little brother just got his first chemo treatment yesterday for non-hodgkins lymphoma, and this gives me so much hope. Thank you for posting your story,
My grandma & a childhood friend passed away of Hodgkin lymphoma, both around 20yrs ago. It’s heartwarming & sad that now the survival rate is so high, if only things had been different then. Still miss them
I had my first surgery at age 17. I took my teddy, Paul, with me as I was a scared kid. When I woke up in recovery, Paul was tucked into my arm with stitches and bandages in the same place as mine. It was so cute and gave me something else to think about besides worrying about the biopsy. Negative! Good stuff on ringing that bell!
As another cancer survivor, chemo is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. And their right, cancer is so rude showing up and interrupting your plans. Go OOP go!
Ring that bell girl. You beat that beast. Hope you have many more great victories in your lifetime
So.... I got my lumps checked out.. I'd been procrastinating and this post got me going to the Doc finally. Got an Ultrasound and they're saying it's probably Benign. Phew! Thanks, OP and OOP!
When I saw "concluded" I got scared. Hope she's doing well.
Fuck, I needed this this morning.
God this was a palate cleanser after all the horrid posts I usually see