Corley Spell

But lymphedema, which is like swelling from lymph fluid not moving through your lymphatic system from removal of lymph nodes, is definitely a serious issue that I knew was a gamble with the surgery.

And so that was something I didn't want, and I prayed that wouldn't happen.

And honestly, the fact that I don't have lymphedema...

especially with how much we travel, is a miracle in itself too.

Anyway, so we do surgery.

They remove the lymph nodes, go over the results with me.

A week later, we go back into MD Anderson, and my oncologist walks in.

And she's reading her papers.

She's reading the results.

She's like, okay, good news.

Surgery was successful.

The pills worked.

Everything was dead.

Every single piece of cancer that we took out was dead.

And the lymph nodes that were removed where there was that we thought was cancer never had cancer in them at all.

And I'm like, okay.

And she's like, the pills worked.

And then I said, Dr. Omari, I did not take the chemotherapy pills.

And she just like her jaw hit the floor.

Well, I'm assuming she was wearing a mask.