Symptoms of Hodgkin’s lymphoma:

I’ll keep you in my thoughts. Hopefully it's not lymphoma. Cancer is a bitch.

Your anger is understandable. I'm sorry that happened.

Had pneumonia a few times. Night sweats, low-grade fevers, and back pain most of the time.

Damn. Ok, if I was you, I’d ask for a CT. That is all some scary business. I don’t want to frighten you, but my symptoms were swollen lymph node, night sweats, night fever, and lower back pain. And no one suggested I get a CT until one doctor noticed my giant, swollen lymph node.

Thanks. Hodgkin’s lymphoma with bone involvement. I had all the classic symptoms except weight loss. I even asked one doctor “Could it be lymphoma?” after doing some WebMDing. He was like “lol no” and I felt like a stupid hypochondriac for letting WebMD make me think I maybe had cancer.

Yikes. Are you having night sweats or fevers? Any swollen lymph nodes? My repeated pneumonias were actually Hodgkin’s lymphoma symptoms.

Yep, I had a giant swollen lymph node in my neck. Eventually, once it was the size of a ping pong ball, an urgent care doctor started poking at it and asked if it hurt. “Nope.” “Oh... That should hurt.” CT scan, surgical biopsy, etc., etc. Stage IV.

Nurses rule.

Yeah, my lower back pain was routinely dismissed. “Try stretching.” “See a chiropractor.” Turns out I had Hodgkin’s lymphoma with bone involvement. I'm sorry your Mom wasn't as lucky as me.

Good lord. I am so sorry. I hope her sons are doing okay.

I’m sorry for your loss. :( That blows.

It happened at like a dozen visits, so there’s a good chance.

This made me cry. I’m so sorry that this happened to your family.

Yeah. It was Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which is a cancer where stage IV isn’t a death sentence. Of course, I didn’t know that when a resident told me it was stage IV as I sat alone in my hospital bed at 7am, and a major panic attack followed. He got chewed out by the nurses for that one.

Thanks. Never asked how long it takes to get from stage I to stage IV because I knew I’d just rage out about the number of times I’d been to the doctor in that time with the same fucking symptoms. Blergh.

Remember that time I kept getting told I had pneumonia and my back pain was “unrelated” and we don’t know what’s causing it, but take some Aleve we guess, and then I was diagnosed with STAGE IV CANCER? hahahahahahahafuckyoudoctors

Holy hell, that is grim.

Thank you. “Victim” means someone on the receiving end of a crime. If you are on the receiving end of a crime, then you are a victim. If Stacey Dash believes that being a victim is a bad thing, then that’s on her. But it doesn’t mean that she’s not a victim. That is how words work.

It’s victim-blaming bullshit. When someone commits a crime against you, you are a victim. “Don’t be a victim” makes “victim” a bad thing to be. It brings shame on a status that the victim has no control over. It takes even more power away from victims.