...Early January and the tests began. It started pretty slowly, first a couple of blood tests at Mayday Hospital, then a couple of weeks later an Ultrasound Scan, which was quite cool since it was at a super-posh medical centre in Canary Warf of all places (amusingly, when the NHS rang up to book that test, they first offered me a local appointment - on Febuary 16th - until I said I didn't mind travelling for a sooner test. Just to think, I could've been that far behind now, crazy - so some advice, it's always worth a bit of inconvenience for quicker results). At the time I misinterprited what they said to me somewhat and assumed it wasn't anything too serious. Wrong!
At about the same time all this was happening, I also damaged a muscle in my chest lifting something at work. I think now it was probably due to moving oddly due to the lymph stuff, but at the time it just hurt like hell, and confused things somewhat. So next came a chest x-ray, at Mayday, and more blood tests.
By the time the results from all that stuff were back it was late January, and the GP decided it was time to refer me on to Mayday's specialist Haematology department. I still didn't really know what to expect, but I guess I thought it was just some crazy virus or something. It took a week and a bit for the Haematology appointment to come up, but then things started moving more quickly...
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