what is lymphoma | What is lymphoma?

What is lymphoma?



I do not have the exact date of the day I received the phone call announcing the results of my biopsy. It was August 2013 and it was my parents who replied. On the other hand, I remember all the details. It's like a photograph. I remember the layout of their old room. They were at my father's office disposed behind their bed, their faces fixed on the computer screen.

It's funny how the brain prints strong moments of our lives like this, that it's able to send it back to us just by closing our eyes.

I guess they wanted to know what a "lymphoma" was exactly. I didn't even see it, I don't even think I cried. We didn't pronounce the word cancer. And even if we had, what is it in real? Just another word. We can't give him a definition. If I tell you about a strawberry, you are able to picture it. It's red, it has a heart shape, it tastes sweet...

As I have already mentioned in my article my story ~ 2 ~ the signs before rider. I am suffering from a non-Hodgkin's T-type Centro-facial lymphoma. Break down the terms together.

Lymphoma is a malignant blood disease. Little reminder, in the blood there are red blood cells and there are white blood cells. The white blood cells make up the immune system. In this one there are B lymphocytes, less numerous and generally less severe, then there are the T lymphocytes, more numerous but more serious.

B lymphocytes represent cellular memory, they record past aggressions in order to better react to those coming # Encyclopedieducorps. T lymphocytes play a role in the immediate reaction to aggression. #SAMUducorps.

In their natural mechanics, T lymphocytes multiply and diffuse throughout the body quickly in a disordered and uncontrollable way.

The term Hodgkin has its origin from Hodgkin's disease which contains defective lymphoid cells called Sternberg. Having non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, I don't have a #Ouf Sternberg cell. The signs of the disease are manifested by the presence of lymph nodes. In my case, mononucleosis (My Story ~ 1 ~ Introduction) is surely the triggering element of my evil.

The so-called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is 5 times more frequent than Hodgkin's and mainly affects men aged 60.70 years. I'm exceptional! It's not like I'm only 23 years old and I'm a #accidentdelanature woman. All these things cause my pathology to be serious and rare.

Finally, I think it is not so complicated to understand the terms "centro-facial". Everything's going on in my little nose. To be precise this lymphoma decided to make its nest in my maxillary sinuses, with in 2013 a slight preference for the right side but which with time and recidivism is really centralized.

For that to be clear, I was obliged to go to find out a minimum on the internet but I really want to clarify that for me Internet is breaker.

What would I go and look for that the Doctor who follows me personally with my own data would explain to me! On the contrary, I might stumble upon information that might confuse me and worry me more. Here, in 2013, the week I was waiting for the results of the biopsy it was the one and only time I was on the internet. I typed in the Google bar "nose cancer". This is totally ridiculous as search terms and especially you find everything. To add a layer is not even what I have! #anecdotegénante.

Here, to be able to be clear (and understand myself!) I received a lot of help from my beloved. As a nursing student he managed to find the words to write with me this paragraph #miséricordieux < 3.

Now that you have become acquainted with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma T-type Centro-facial (if you don't know how to write it at the end of the day!), let me count you how I got hit. After the call passed by Prof. M that we met in my last article my story ~ 4 ~ recidivism, my look at Stokomani. I soon had an appointment late August 2013 at the Bow 1 in Nice in clinical hematology at the University Clinical Center of Medical Specialties # Précisionfrivole. Me and my whole faction, that is to say my parents and my beloved (my sister to work) go to meet the Prof. M and his famous diagnosis Abracadabra. Obviously, he shows up and to my surprise is taking stock of my medical exams of the summer. It makes me the summary of my biopsy, reported my physical appearance with the deflection of my nose, takes note of my background (mononucleosis)... He will never pronounce the term lymphoma. He goes straight to me and talks about the treatments that I will now have to follow #désappointée.

Doctors are so accustomed to seeing an immeasurable number of patients that they forget almost sometimes that we are unique and ignorant of this medical world a little more advanced. They forget that for a suffering medical terms mean absolutely nothing. We need rational explanations that we can hang on to integrate the agonizing unexplored circumstances of this unknown who is waiting for us.

PS: If you want to deepen your knowledge on the subject or simply that you are curious to learn even more about this disease I leave you the sites on which I inquired to help me write this article.