EVERY TUNNEL HAVE ITS LIGHT :)

19 February 2015

First of all, today I would like to describe briefly about Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Basically, Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is cancer that originated in your lymphatic system. In Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the tumors will develop from lymphocytes ( a type of white blood cell ) in your body.

For this week, I read a story with a title An Unpredictable Life. This story was related to the disease that I had mentioned before. It is a true story based on the writer’s experience. It started when she was diagnosed with cancer a week before her 16^th birthday. She had a Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma which usually attack old people. She needed to undergo Chemotherapy and Stem Cell transplant, back in 2003. The whole of her life changed.

The thing that I found interesting in this story is how the writer fight with her disease with all her might instead of being gives up. It is shown when she tried her best to have a positive thinking. Have you heard that the one who has a positive mind will have a good immunity system in contrast with the one with a negative mind? So, due to her positive mind, she managed to think that the disease that she suffered was an opportunity learn something new and make a lot of new friends that she would not be able if she did not suffer that disease. She also did not afraid of getting treatment although it also had a side effect to her. The side effect could be in a short term or a long term. For instance, when she was getting the treatment her hair would fall one by one until she did not have hair anymore. That is for the short term. For the long term, she will be infertile for the rest of her life. But all of that are not the reasons for her not being treated.

I strongly recommend this story to all my blog’s reader especially to those who have the people around them that has the same fate as the writer. It is because usually people will think they will not have a future anymore when they were diagnosed to have cancer. But from this true story, everyone will realize that even you have cancer at the stage 4 but you still have the future.

when you are walking through a tunnel that full with darkness, don't be afraid. believe in yourself and keep moving because there is light at the end of every tunnel :)