Hodgkin Pharma Speech

Time

Four white walls with a table bed, clock , box of tissue, Highlights and People magazines, concluded with two chairs that will make your butt feel boney after an hour. “ Waiting is what makes you feel like the world is coming to an end, “ says my little sister Charity , just to make the silents break. For the next 30 minutes all you could hear is “ Tick Tock, Tick -Tock of the old fashion clock, the licking of a pointer finger to turn the page, but most of all my mom humming, Rise Up by Andra day. I have ears like a dog, I could hear Dr. Holman, flipping and raising X-rays charts into the light and saying “ IMPOSSIBLE , she’s so young.”

More time goes by and finally Dr. holman walks in……..

“ Mrs. Alston, it's a good thing you brought your daughter in today, you had good instinct of knowing something was wrong with charity. Random weight loss , night sweating , and passing out are strong symptoms of something , but when you told us she was having chest pain , we needed to look deeper and closer. We found out on Charity’s x-rays that she has 250 spots on her chest, which indicates, sage four Hodgkin Lymphoma is a type of cancer ,” Time stops and Dr. Holman still speaks, why and how could this happen to Charity?

Charity is someone who will appear

In my mind i keep replaying the tape of the voice of my doctor, “ Hodgkin Lymphoma is divided into four stages, depending on how far the disease has spread. The “stage” is an important piece of information that helps to predict outcomes, or prognosis, and determine a patient’s course of treatment. As for Charity, she has stage four (widespread disease), the lymphoma is outside the lymph nodes and spleen and has spread to one or more organs such as bone marrow, lung or liver.” As a short summary, basically explained that the only thing we can do is take Charity to chemo, possibly surgery and to just “ hope for the