Hello, my name is Tony, I'm a Finnish 16-year-old and I've been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, estimated stage 1 or 2 but there hasn't been an official statement yet.
I feel like the doctors aren't handling this as urgently as it would need to. After my biopsy, I had to wait for over two weeks for results. Then I had to wait to get an appointment at a bigger hospital (TAYS), which took a week. This morning, I got the appointment and it's on the 15th of August, and that appointment's only for the PET-CT scan. That means easily over two weeks of more waiting.
Are they not acting urgently or is this normal or am I just freaking out over nothing? I understand I have an "easy cancer", with high rates of survival, and it's not stage 4 or anything, but I can't help feeling it'll just keep spreading and I'll end up in a much worse condition if they don't hurry up.
Should I be worried or is this just useless fretting over little things?
