<Go back to page 2> A Tribute To My Sister "Diana" page 3   (Thank you Dream Catcher for making this graphic for me.) I got a phone call from her, one day, saying she had to go to the hospital for test. She told me her stomach was hurting her really bad and she looked like she was pregnant. She wanted me to meet her there. So, I got in the car and went to the hospital. She was in the emergency room waiting for the test results. We sat there for along time. She wanted me to feel her glands in her neck. They were all swollen again. I was really scared for her. She was like my daughter and I knew there was something very wrong. She had started loosing a lot of weight and very pale. The doctor finally came in and said her spleen was very enlarged and her blood counts were way out of whack. So, he sent us to another hospital and was very scared that her spleen was going to rupture.  As we drove to the other hospital, we were both so scared. Not knowing at all what was going on. It was like I could feel her pain. They admitted her to the hospital and other test began. She had surgery to remove one of her glands in her pelvic area and they did a bone marrow biopsy while they were at it. Then my world fell apart.  I sat for hours it seemed in the waiting room. The doctor finally called me into a little room. You know the ones that if there is bad news to tell they take you in there. I felt chills go all over me .He told me he had some bad news for me. She had a tumor in her spleen and there was cancer in the gland they took out, they were sending the bone marrow biopsy off to see if the cancer had spread to her bones already. I didn't even hear the name of the cancer just the word along scared me so bad I was in shock. . My little sister, my daughter, my best friend, my world had cancer. She was only 38. I walked back to her room, which felt like miles to get there. Her room smelled so pretty with the scent of her special perfume. Her son, boyfriend, and my X were there waiting for me. I did not see them or here them at all. I was picking up everything I could get my hands on and throwing them against the wall. Flowers and water, and glass went everywhere.... She was finally brought back to the room and wide-awake. She noticed her flowers were gone and a few other things she had up on the window. She looked right at her son and I stepped in and told her there was no fighting going on. Her son and boyfriend did not get along. I told her I would explain that I had done it. She knew right then that there was something bad wrong with her. Then she was ready to go outside and smoke. I wheeled her out and begin to tell her she had cancer but they did not know yet how far or what exact type it was. She was really quiet and did not want to hear anymore and she started to cry and I got up, held her, and cried with her for a very long time.  I stayed with her that night and early that morning the doctors came in. They introduced their self to us. They were the oncologist’s team. Diana right away asked how long did she have to live. They talked to us for a very long time using words I never heard of and neither did Diana. They told us it was a type of Lymphoma but they had to wait for more test to come back. And explained that they would know what stage her cancer was in after the test came back too. So, we had to wait another day. Diana was always trying to hold herself together. Telling all kinds of doctor jokes. It was funny sometimes she would embarrass the hell out of me. Anyway the next morning the team came in and told us it was Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and the cancer was in the forth stage which meant that she had it for a few years before it was found. The next day the results of the bone marrow came back and it had already entered into her bones. But, was not bad, as they had thought. So now was the game plan. <Click here to continue with the story>

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