Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer remission situation

Hello,

My name is Kevin. I'm 24 years old and am battling Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer.

My story:

In the last months of highschool in 2018 when I was 19 years old i got a few bumps in my neck. I graduated and seeked medical help that summer to find out what it was. I wouldn't had done this if the bumps didn't hurt, but they did.

At the end of summer 2018 i started looking for work to enter the work life as a newly graduated young adult. But during the interview process, I got the news. Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer. This was going to be hard to start my life with those news.

I told my soon to be boss at the company I was trying to get a job at right before I was going to sign the papers. He could have canceled the hiring pricess there and let me go, but he didn't. He was very understanding and decided to hire me either way.

I started chemotherapy about 2 weeks after that and although it was hard, I managed to work an 8 to 5 job for about 2 months before it became to tough to do anything. I called for a meeting with my boss that could have fired me on the spot. He was very understanding once again, offering to keep me employed so that i could get 80% of my salary from the government (thats how it works in Sweden).

What followed was 4 more months of chemotherapy making me feel worse week after week. I had a lot of support from my then girlfriend an both her and my family.

Chemo ended early spring 2019 and the cancer was gone. I had gained about 40kg of weight and was bald. But now i could live my life again.

I have been dealing with depression and some parts of ADD aswell as having to replace one of my hips and soon the other since but i was free from cancer.

One of the side medications from chemotherapy destroyed my hips.

This brings us to today. It started to hurt in my neck again and when I got an x-ray and biopsy it showed that the cancer is back.

Around 90% of people survive with no further complications from the first treatment. But now my doctor didn't even want to give me a percentage. Whats to come is a more intence chemotherapy treatment then last time that may in other ways destroy my body even more. But at least I might be alive for a while longer...

Without treatment I'm look at about 1 year of time.

Why a fundraiser for myself?

I don't see myself as spoiled but doing this fundraiser feels a bit selfish. But there are two reasons for doing it.

The first one is that a dream of mine has been to stream playing video games. Not being famous or big but maybe streaming for a few people to chat about anything while enjoying a hobby of mine. For this i would need a computer that can handle playing games and streaming at the same time. This will give me smething to do during chemotherapy since I won't be able to work.

The second reason is financial support. We have a good medical system in Sweden with lots of benefits but I still need to pay my bills and be able to live. At least as much as possible.

I'm not counting on this being that successful but if it is the money will go to what I mentioned above. If I were to get more than need, any of those funds will be donated to some sort of cancer related charity. I don't know which one yet but I'm sure people have good sugestions.

That is my story and reason for this. For anyone that read all of that, I want to really thank you since that means alot even if you are not able to support me.

I hope you are having a lovely day!