Lost Voice
- “My Dad had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. It started as a tickle in his throat, and then he lost his voice. As in he could not talk beyond the strength of a whisper. He chalked it up to a bad throat cold. Queue 5 weeks
- later, and we finally got him to go to the hospital. Stubborn S.O.B that he was…Huge tumor put pressure on his vocal cords which caused him to lose his voice and have difficulties swallowing. He went for
made it through and was in remission for 7 years before it came back. Then chemotherapy and radiation again. Then it came back in his pancreas where he had abdominal pain and other difficulties but did not tell us.”Persistent Cough
“My sister had stage IV non Hodgkins at 21 years old and her only symptom was a persistent cough. Doctors kept telling her it was pneumonia or bronchitis and giving her cough syrup and antibiotics. Six months after the cough started, my mum convinced her to go to a walk in and demand a chest x-ray. She was admitted to the Cancer centre in out city the next day for intense chemo. She had to be in the ICU while it was administered because the tumor was pushing on the tissue around her heart and they worried she would bleed out as the tumor shrunk. It’ll be twenty years next February and she has been cancer free ever since. Married, has three kids, and you’d never know she was sick. She was super lucky, but now I’m paranoid every time I get a cough.”
