I feel a bit of a fraud being on here , My name is Emmah, 46  I live in the usa at the moment but I am from Sheffield and was planning on returning in a few years . So a bit of my back story , My mum passed away in 2017 from AML it was a shock to us all , it was caught late , the NHS fought to keep her with us . Since than I found out my grandmother also had blood cancer before she pasted at 98 years old . So fast forward to early this year , I had a lump on my breast , I wasnt worried had cysts before , called my doctor here in the USA to make an apptment , found out I was no longer a patient as I hadnt visited in 2 years so they dropped me lol, set up appt for next avail which would have been yesterday lol. So I start looking for a new doctor , find one set up appt for september . Anyway feel fine , lump gets bigger and painful quick , called breast clinc told need referrel from doc , so as a last ditch reffort I end up in ER , after bloods and scan , its a cyst get refferal to clinc , have cyst drained the next week ..I kept My new doc appt after seeing how hard it has become to find a doc , she turns out to be lovley , give me a physcial inclunding bloods in office , checks all my history online and sets up a 2 week appt for results , I return says I have a raise in white blood cells and anmiea , redraws bloods, recieve a call to say still raised and is refering me to a hemotolisist ,( I could hear my Nan in my head saying you need Iron my Girl ) any way sorry so long of a post , Get a call from hemotalisist to say doc will review and call back with an appt . Well I get a call back this time from oncolgy and hematology for an appt for the next week the 10th , 2 days ago . I knew than my legs went weak and I relived the 18 months of Mums Cancer battle .That was it I pulled my blood results and referrels online and off to DR Google , I knew a bit from mum and watching her levels daily , i know nothing lol what i did do is prepare myself with basic knowledge of what the doc could tell me , I just kept worrying that I wouldnt make it to the UK for christmas which has been planned for Months, taking my daughter and hubby this time. So Thursday rolls around , meet a lovely Doc , do the standard so what brought you here ect , turns out he surports Arsenal lol and than he tells me its CLL , It was the best of a bad lot and a relief . so more bloods back in 2 weeks . and Hoilday is still on. 

Nice to meet you all xxx