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Howdy! This be my first blog. To sum up why my life is a soap opera, I'll make this a short as possible. At 23, diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. Almost died. That really sucked. 6 months of intense chemotherapy followed by a month of radiation therapy. During this time, I am told I will never be able to get pregnant. I fall into a deep depression. Do a bunch of things with people I shouldn't have been around... lots of regrets. Yadda yadda. Become an alcoholic. (If you CAN just BECOME an alcoholic.) Meet my now husband... who recognizes I'm an alcoholic and starts taking me to meetings. I get sober. I get healthy. We started dating... move in together a year later. Two months after that... I'M PREGNANT. Husband proposes... we decided to have a small wedding a couple months later. One month before wedding, I'm told that it looks like the cancer came back. I'm mortified. Husband loses job because he's taking time off to take care of me. (Would have been FMLA certified in just ONE week. Boooo FTD Commodities. YOU SUCK!) We get married. Find out I don't have cancer. Yah. A month later, I'm told that I have a pre-eclamptic pregnancy. I can't work because I'm put on uber strict bed rest. (And then begins the fight with METLIFE to prove that I'm on bedrest for a valid reason and getting them to pay for stuff.) I have my daughter, Madelyn four months later. I have a heart attack and go into heart failure. And there's my life.

My daughter is two months old now. I'm a newly diagnosed Congestive Heart Failure patient. I'm a veteran cancer patient. Honestly everything really just stems from the cancer. It's either the radiation, the chemo, or the tumor that has ravaged my body. I have the heart of an 80 year old. But what can you do? I still have a pretty decent quality of life. I can still walk. I don't need a handicap sticker on my car. My thought is, my life could end at anytime. But it's not that big of a deal... because anyone's life could end at any time. I'm fortunate to be aware of it. Fortunate because I can enjoy life better. I know what minor things I can just let roll off my back.

If you are reading through blogspot looking for things about lymphoma... feel free to email me. I wouldn't be blogging about my life and medical situation if I were a secretive person. I can do my best to answer any question you may have. My email is AmandaTwait@aol.com