Caroline Crampton

I missed all of it this is what is so extraordinary to me in my mind so after the diagnosis I was able with the doctor's help to put together the timeline of what had really happened which was that most likely I had had a bout of glandular fever which is quite common in teenagers and

And that in the process of having glandular fever, some cell somewhere had mutated and that had tipped the glandular fever over into Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is, say, a cancer of the blood and the lymphatic system. It attacks your immune system and your ability to make white blood cells. And it also causes tumours in the lymphatic system.

And that in the process of having glandular fever, some cell somewhere had mutated and that had tipped the glandular fever over into Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is, say, a cancer of the blood and the lymphatic system. It attacks your immune system and your ability to make white blood cells. And it also causes tumours in the lymphatic system.

And that in the process of having glandular fever, some cell somewhere had mutated and that had tipped the glandular fever over into Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is, say, a cancer of the blood and the lymphatic system. It attacks your immune system and your ability to make white blood cells. And it also causes tumours in the lymphatic system.

In my case, in my left lymph node in my neck, and also very substantially in my chest, sort of around where my breastbone is. The ones in your breastbone, you can't feel or know until they get very, very big. But the ones in your neck, you know, they're quite near the surface, your lymph nodes.

In my case, in my left lymph node in my neck, and also very substantially in my chest, sort of around where my breastbone is. The ones in your breastbone, you can't feel or know until they get very, very big. But the ones in your neck, you know, they're quite near the surface, your lymph nodes.

In my case, in my left lymph node in my neck, and also very substantially in my chest, sort of around where my breastbone is. The ones in your breastbone, you can't feel or know until they get very, very big. But the ones in your neck, you know, they're quite near the surface, your lymph nodes.

And so I had, by the time I was diagnosed, I think in the January, they estimated that I'd had the tumour for maybe four months. And there are even photographs of me from that time. My school had our equivalent of a prom during that time. And I was photographed wearing a dress, an off-the-shoulder dress, and you can see it there in my neck. But I hadn't noticed it.

And so I had, by the time I was diagnosed, I think in the January, they estimated that I'd had the tumour for maybe four months. And there are even photographs of me from that time. My school had our equivalent of a prom during that time. And I was photographed wearing a dress, an off-the-shoulder dress, and you can see it there in my neck. But I hadn't noticed it.

And so I had, by the time I was diagnosed, I think in the January, they estimated that I'd had the tumour for maybe four months. And there are even photographs of me from that time. My school had our equivalent of a prom during that time. And I was photographed wearing a dress, an off-the-shoulder dress, and you can see it there in my neck. But I hadn't noticed it.

My mother, my parents, anyone else who saw me regularly hadn't noticed it. Because I think it had just grown so gradually, and they saw me every day, that it had become part of me. It was just, you know, when you can't really see what's in front of you because it's changed so gradually.

My mother, my parents, anyone else who saw me regularly hadn't noticed it. Because I think it had just grown so gradually, and they saw me every day, that it had become part of me. It was just, you know, when you can't really see what's in front of you because it's changed so gradually.

My mother, my parents, anyone else who saw me regularly hadn't noticed it. Because I think it had just grown so gradually, and they saw me every day, that it had become part of me. It was just, you know, when you can't really see what's in front of you because it's changed so gradually.

And then I had also been quite ill and run down that term of school, but it was also the most busy and hectic period of my life so far. It was when I was applying to university, preparing for my school leaving exams, and

And then I had also been quite ill and run down that term of school, but it was also the most busy and hectic period of my life so far. It was when I was applying to university, preparing for my school leaving exams, and

And then I had also been quite ill and run down that term of school, but it was also the most busy and hectic period of my life so far. It was when I was applying to university, preparing for my school leaving exams, and

preparing for music exams learning to drive doing all of these just about to enter adulthood things all at the same time so again I and nobody else thought it was odd that I would feel tired and stretched and pulled in lots of different directions what eventually prompted us to go to the doctor was that the school term finished I was home for the Christmas holidays and I I didn't get better.

preparing for music exams learning to drive doing all of these just about to enter adulthood things all at the same time so again I and nobody else thought it was odd that I would feel tired and stretched and pulled in lots of different directions what eventually prompted us to go to the doctor was that the school term finished I was home for the Christmas holidays and I I didn't get better.

preparing for music exams learning to drive doing all of these just about to enter adulthood things all at the same time so again I and nobody else thought it was odd that I would feel tired and stretched and pulled in lots of different directions what eventually prompted us to go to the doctor was that the school term finished I was home for the Christmas holidays and I I didn't get better.

No matter how long I slept, and I was sleeping like 12, 14 hours a night at some times, I never seemed to be anything but tired. I never got better. So after three weeks of this, of complete rest and not being better at all, my mother went, no, this is not normal. We're going to the doctor. And it all unraveled from there, really.