Mother's Fight Against Cancer Diagnosis

I'm noticing my son's neck thickening.

Just a really odd shape.

He'd gone for a doctor's checkup. He calls me.

I remember the day. He's like, "Mum,

I've got cancer."

I just remember screaming. My worst nightmare.

This is my, my firstborn, and he's got cancer.

How? Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Couple of months into the diagnosis, it just kept bugging me.

You were healthy on our farm, then you go take this job.

What happened out there?

He started telling us it was spraying Roundup around the cell

towers. One day, he was jumping over a fence.

He had a lid pop off of his backpack sprayer.

It dumped on his neck and dumped on his shoulders.

He didn't really think that that was a big deal.

You know, he just got his water bottle and just sprinkled over his neck and

shoulders, and he didn't get to have a shower until

that evening.

This chemical was soaking in his skin all day.

And he's like, "Mum, that's where it began." The scans all show

exactly where that soaked in area from the Roundup, that's where

it began. And that's not what normally happens with

Hodgkin's lymphoma. There should be other lymph areas

involved.

Anyone can connect these dots.

I go into mama bear mode. To me, convention-