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Ed's story | Laura’s Story

Ed's Story

I was diagnosed with Advanced Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma, a form of Lymphatic Cancer in 2007. I was 21. I couldn’t believe it.

Up until that point I had always been more worried about getting hit by an asteroid than been diagnosed with Cancer, it just seemed more likely. Cancer was an unfortunate occurrence that happened to other people, but not me; a late night channel 4 documentary about some poor bald kid. I had been studying Architecture at The Bartlett, University College London, doing pretty well, enjoying life, but all the time I was at University, I had become weaker, thinner, and more tired yet I put this down to the fact that I was a student; up all night and doing lots of things.

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Laura’s Story

I was diagnosed aged 20 with lymphoblastic lymphoma of the mediastinum. Basically, that’s cancer. A word you never thought you would hear when starting to take control of your life in work, school or university; if at all.
 
I was at university and living away from home, when I first noticed that I was constantly feeling under the weather and suffering with symptoms that my GP put down to stress of university. I ignored a lot of the symptoms myself. I was tired constantly, falling asleep at every opportunity, suffered with heart palpitations and reoccurring chest infections. One weekend I felt so unwell, I went to see an out of hours doctor who told me I may be developing mumps; a condition a lot of university students were coming down with, but there was nothing he could do, as he thought it was just a lingering viral infection.

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