I was just diagnosed

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Hi my name is Adrienne. I was diagnosed with CML march 9th so about

two weeks ago. I'm a 15 year old girl so that is pretty uncommon.

I've been having dizzy spells since november. My doctor originally

thought it was stress. I continued getting dizzy spells so on march

1st we called the doctor to get an appointment. The day after we got

the appointment, I noticed that my whole left side of my stomach was

hard when I pushed on it. I thought it was a tumor. Well we went to

the doctor and as soon as he felt my stomach he wanted me to get

blood work done and a catscan. I gave the blood and went to a

hospital to get my catscan. The catscan showed I had an enlarged

spleen. We had no idea why so we waited for the bloodwork to come

back. Meanwhile I went home. My parents and I were watching a movie

and I fell asleep. At 11 PM the doctor called and wanted me to go to

the hospital immediately. I was freaked out. On the way, my parents

told me that the blood work showed that I had way too many white

blood cells. I'm a sophomore in high school. I knew that meant

cancer. So I became scared. The next morning it was official. I have

CML. Thank the Lord for Gleevac though. When I went into the

hospital my WBC count was 265,000 and two days ago it was 30,000. I

was in the hospital for about a week and a half. I'm home now

though. It's pretty hard to adjust though. It's really weird to

think " I'm a cancer patient " .

I just need people to talk to who understand what I'm going through.