Thank you BUT it was me who was lucky to have her in my lfe though.

I disagree with what Morse said, even though he was just a fictional character btw.

I'm a 15 year survivor, & I sometimes feel guilty.

@Lilac-Jade As I keep telling other cancer survivors as well as those who survived abuse, etc,, never feel guilty for surviving because,
A) your surviving means there is just that extra bit of hope for others like yourself, and,
B) by surviving that means those whom were left behind had you succumbed had no need to grieve and mourn your passing.

@Triphid It was also found early due to my diligence for mammograms every year without fail, & excellent medical care..

@Lilac-Jade Yes, and I still think and believe, quite firmly, that had our G.P. been more diligent, etc, at the outset rather than merely putting her symptoms down to either 'Growing pains,' or, 'Not wanting to go to school,' etc, etc, then we would have found the diagnosis earlier thus increasing Lorrae's chances.
It was only when the G.P. brought in a Locum so HE could go on a holiday that the Locum took one look and ordered Blood Tests to be done immediately and be marked as being "For Urgent Attention" that we got a result at last.

@Triphid Oh that is unforgiveable. My husband was treated for bad indigestion, & it turned out to be a massive heart attack at age 42, that he should never have lived through. I will NEVER forgive that family GP we had at the time.

@Triphid Was it a sarcoma?

@itsmedammit No, it was the worst of the Lymphomas, Mature B Cell Lymphoma, the Non-Hodgkins type.
If it had been one of the Hodgkins Lymphoma types the chances of making a Full permanent recovery would have in the high 90% range but Non-Hodgkins plus being in her mid-teens cut the chances down to around 60% for Full Recovery, 35% against, then adding in the lateness in which it was diagnosed, thanks to a lazy G.P., the chances went down eeven further to approx. less 20% for and 80+% against but we did NOT give up.
She, with me at her side 24/7, went through the harshest Chemo Protocol available for 9 months, went into remission, return to High School, sat for and passed her Year 10 Exams and the bastard cancer returned even worse in December, 2000, destroyed all of her Bone Marrow ( no chance of a Bone Marrow transplant because she was so badly weakened by then) and I lost her on January, 7th. 2001 at 6.35pm.

@Triphid That is rough. And I am guessing it is unusual for one so young? I have a friend, who, at this moment, is battling a primary CNS non Hodgkins lymphoma. She is in her 70's though. Of course things are not looking good, with first treatment attempt failing. She is poised for a clinical to start soon.

I wondered about the sarcoma as we lost my nephew to such. It is one of the few cancers that appear in childhood. But it is rare and typically the GPs think it is anything but cancer. So it was in Nathan's case and he had a bit of delay as well. It eventually was treated, went into remission and then returned. It is a difficult cancer to beat in any case.

@itsmedammit My sincerest Best Wishes to your friend.