Before We Knew It Was Cancer

It is easy to see patterns and things when I look back on the year before we realized that Dee had cancer. She ended up going to Urgent Care more that year than past years. She had problems in the past with allergies every spring that sometimes caused a bit of swelling in the lymph nodes but it was like nothing like she had that year.
The first time that she got unusually sick was on our trip back from California. We had ran out of money and ended up spending time sleeping in our truck. This should've been fine but she got very sick to her stomach and started having anxiety problems after we got through Texas that lasted the whole way home. Once we were home and she got a full night's sleep everything seemed to be fine. We ended up thinking that it was possibly a minor care of food poisoning and maybe that is all it was. The odd thing is that she has had anxiety traveling even 2 hours away since then. That trip took place in May of 2005.
Over the next year she ended up at the Urgent Care a few times with swollen nodes and everytime they told her it was a minor viral infection. We weren't living in a new home and she hadn't changed jobs so we were trying to figure out where she was getting the infections. She became even more paranoid about cleaning her computer and phone every morning and after lunches thinking that the virus had to be coming from work.
By the beginning of May 2006 her lymph nodes were so swollen that they were protruding out from under her chin and they were getting harder. She was also experiencing more fatigue and some nausea when she was eating. The Urgent Care once again told her it was a viral infection and gave her medicine accordingly. This time they advised her to set up an appointment with her regular doctor. She hadn't went to the doctor earlier because her boss at the time had a policy that no one could have a doctor appointment during work hours (which is why she kept going to Urgent Care after work) and her boss had written up people for doing it. This time it was doctor ordered so she set up an appointment but she couldn't get in to see the nurse practitioner until the end of May.
By the time the NP's appointment came around, Dee had to call in sick to work because she was so weak and throwing up all the time. She had went downhill a lot over Memorial weekend but we already knew what Urgent Care was going to say. I researched her symptoms online and found that they were the symptons for many viral infections, mono, and cancer. In fact the first test the did was for mono and then they tested her basic labs. It was at that time the NP realized something was very wrong because her plattlets were extremely low (The count was 11 or 7) and she sent us to the emergency room.