Hodgkin Lymphoma Stories: Survivor Talks about Getting Through ABVD Chemo | Erica's Story
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2020
- Erica Hernandez was diagnosed with stage 3B Hodgkin lymphoma in 2019. She underwent 6 cycles (12 infusions) of ABVD chemotherapy and is thankfully in remission today!
In this video with The Patient Story, she shares everything from undergoing so many tests and scans to get diagnosed, fighting for a different doctor, dealing with ABVD chemo side effects, and the mental impacts of going through such an intense treatment.
Below, you'll find time codes (approximate) for different topics. Thank you so much, Erica, for sharing your story!
Her full story → www.thepatientstory.com/cance...
Time Codes:
(00:38) 1st symptoms
(2:18) Overview: series of tests and scans
(6.43) How she got through six weeks of waiting for answers
(12:10) Needle biopsy or fine needle aspiration
(15:40) Surgical biopsy of neck
(22:11) CT scan
(26:02) Pushing to get a PET scan
(32:13) Getting the diagnosis at first oncologist's office
(35:20) Getting a second opinion & more information
(38:00) Switching oncologists
(41:37) Guidance on relationships with doctors
(44:04) Describing ABVD chemotherapy regimen
(45:02) Why she didn't want a port or PICC line
(49:00) ABVD side effects & what helped reduce/prevent them
(52:00) Hair loss
(54:40) Financial toxicity: paying for cancer treatment
(58:09) Hardest part of cancer treatment
(59:57) How to get support
(1:02:04) Last message to other patients
Just been diagnosed with Stage 3A Hodgkins Lymphoma myself at 28 & start treatment in a week. This video has helped me massively. Thank you.
So glad this was helpful! Thank you for the wonderful feedback - we hope to be able to provide more content that can be useful to you. There are more stories/videos here: www.thepatientstory.com/cancers/hodgkin-lymphoma/
Sending you best wishes as you start treatment. -Stephanie
Good luck Erica!
Thank you so much for all of the lymphoma stories lately. I had my bone marrow biopsy 2 weeks ago and am waiting for my results...it's the WORST but like Erica said, finding positive outlets (exercise, arts and crafts, writing) is super helpful and therapeutic to take your mind off of the waiting process. Again, thanks for sharing
Irina, thank you so much for your kind words. We're so glad these are helpful! If you'd like more, check out the stories on www.thepatientstory.com - there are both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma stories. Sending you our best wishes!
Please stay strong amd positive
Great info!
I had 4b Hodgkins. Took ABVD and radiation. Still have heart problems from it 20 years later. The radiation was horrible
I live in rural Indiana and 2 hospitals under a hour that that did pet scans
I'm s roofer and I continued to work during chemo and I race quads and I did that too
I literally had pet scan results the same day.
The fact that didn't tell you to get a port is unbelievable, it's so dangerous
Kaiser is very dangerous.
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I'm so sorry you got such a terrible level of care it's unbelievable
I'm so excited Dr osuma ,about this whole stuff ,i mean i have been battling with fibrosis for some months now and been running arounds hospitals ,not until i tried using herbs and things changed for good !!
As soon as they saw reed stemburg cells it's Hodgkin's lymphoma period
My Dr wouldn't do the treatment without a port.
The still photo of the interviewer detracts from the video. Really distracting.
Hi Ruth, I agree, it is distracting. We don't do it that way anymore and hope to update Erica's story with a version where we don't have that. Thank you for taking the time to leave feedback. -Stephanie
I don't mind. She is hot! Lol
I agree
I don't understand why the person conducting the interview is not live. Please be fair. She is giving you her private medical info. Be real just like her. I hope she's been well, all the best in her journey.
I did all that stuff in days that took you werks
Kaiser us great...when you are relatively heathy that is.
Kaiser is terrible. Pray you don't have a very bad illness and have to deal with them. Kaiser is great for blood work. But that's it. Anything serious and they litteraly Google in front of you for answers. Scary.