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My name is Pamela. I am 41 years old. I have been married to a wonderful man for 3 years. I am a mom. I have a 13 year old boy and a 2 year old girl. I have a dog, a cat, and a gold fish. I am a social worker, so you know I have spent my life taking care of others. I am a sister; I have 2 brothers. I am an aunt. I am a scrapbooker. My favorite color is pink. I love Bon Jovi! And I have cancer. Every June we go on vacation with my husbands family. On day 3 of our vacation, I woke up with a sore throat and a fever blister on a day we were hiking 6.2 miles. My sore throat went away (so did the fever blister) but my throat stayed swollen. Not causing me any pain, it was easy to ignore. I went to a chiropractor three weeks later and he noticed my swollen throat. A girlfriend was the first to tell me how deformed I was and that I needed to go to the doctor. The last week of June I saw my primary doctor. I had an x-ray, CT and blood work. She put me on 2000mg of antibiotics a d...