8. January 2009 is a day when Caroline Edmonds life changed forever. It was one week from its diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma Follicular than Grade 1 phase 4, a form of cancer. Caroline, together with her husband, Gary is the graphic design business; Edmonds and Hunt in the area of Hertford ads more than twenty-eight years. They have one son, Sam, who is currently busy with his G.C.S.E..
Caroline was treated for a stomach ulcer, after many years, sometimes suffer from terrible pain and suffering from bouts of nausea. Everything came to a head Thursday; Caroline had severe pain all day and couldn't sleep. Gary took her to the outside of the hours of the doctor who then according to the QE2 hospital in Welwyn Garden City, where he received morphine and was sent home. After a sleepless night, bad back to the doctor in the morning, then back to the hospital. Finally, she was accepted to the hospital, didn't know that spend the next two weeks there, including its sedmactyricátou birthday three days after you received.
Caroline says, "I feel like a fraud," between the bouts of pain and the nausea, I feel good. During the first week in the hospital she underwent the test after test; Tomography and what all the blood tests, known to man. It was in the afternoon on Wednesday, 14. January, the consultant informed her that he suspected malignant lymphoma and the need to undergo the operation. The night before her operation Friday 16 said, "pain throughout the body were so strong that I think everyone was enlarged lymph nodes. I really thought that I would die ". Should all the sisters, writing letters to her family, as she feared, nor would it through the ordeal.
During the operation to remove a tumor, surrounding tissue and part of her intestines. A week later, Caroline received a message that has been used; It was, what was suspicious and further tests have shown that cancer has also spread to the bone marrow and the chest.
It came as a blow to the Caroline and her family, self employed, if she was sick, that it should not be able to earn money to help the family. If that wasn't enough of a shock for the Edmonds are also tragically Gary's father day after Caroline came home from the hospital. The family now had not only concern Caroline is health, but also had to solve all the logistics, which comes with death.
1. April began her first of the eight session of chemo therapy, one every three weeks throughout the day. One of Caroline's hair was thinning side-effects; Fortunately, it's all lost. He was also on steroids. "During the first week after each session of chemotherapy, I had to take twenty-four tablets daily, gradually decrease to the next meeting, where it all started again," she said. Progress of chemotherapy completed August 28th therapy and a month later, she was told that it was successful. Doctors said that if he gets up to next year and put it back on the same chemotherapy therapy treatment again. This form of cancer is not curable, but is governed. Cancer returns before September 2010 would have to put her on a much more aggressive treatment.
In its pain and stress of being diagnosed and treated for Follicular than Hodgkin 's, tried to operate as normal as possible. Caroline is an active member of her son's school PTA, friends of the selected schools. He attended all the meetings and helped on various actions of the workouts. She is also a Councillor for the Bengeo Parish Council.
The things worse and eventually recovering Caroline could go back to their business full time, intervention by the recession. Then in the business for so long and never to look for work, suddenly stopped to look at reinventing business as it looks.
First, what did was to enter into the world of social media and online marketing. The specified Web page, they began to use Twitter and Facebook has created a page. Recently started blogging. "Times are tough for graphic designers, but have to see what it is and move with the times," she said.
Caroline is an example for all of us and is proof that, even in the event that traded hands, it doesn't mean that the game.