I'm getting a massage sitting upright and the masseuse was massaging my neck and

collarbone and she finds a lymph node on my collarbone and she just said hey you're not supposed to have swollen

lymph nodes on your collarbone you can have them on your neck which you're

fighting in infection but it's a little weird to have one on your collarbone so I

definitely would go get that

checked out and so I was like okay I didn't really think anything of it and then

walk into my general practitioner he just feels my neck and collarbone, feels the lymph node, and he goes,

holy shit, this might be cancer.

I had gotten two opinions and a friend said, go see this guy at St. John's.

He's a radiologist, oncologist. said, go see this guy at St. John's.

He's a radiologist, oncologist.

And I was like, I really don't want to go see another doctor.

Thank God I did, just like I'm thankful for the masseuse,

very much so, to find that lymph lymph node because I never would have found it probably myself

But the radiologist had the report knew that was an early stage of Hodgkins and sat me down and said,

Are you happy?

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