Truly hating the delays before starting treatment
Last week my fiancé (40M) was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma transformed into diffuse large B cell. Grade 3B. Diagnosis was made via surgical biopsy. It has been a months’ long ordeal - one groin node noticed in February, PCP first seen in February. Countless tests (bloodwork/chest xray normal, no symptoms except the lump and back stiffness that we don’t know is related or not) and doctor’s visits later, surgery was April 30. PET is scheduled for June 1. The waiting is honestly terrible. I’ve done my absolute BEST to get appointments moved up and get things going as fast as possible, but we are stuck in this waiting process. I can’t help but think the cancer has been getting worse all this time, since February! Ugh. Anyway. Thanks for listening.