Lymphoma

Hello, my name is Fely Agustin, I am 38 years old and a mother to two teenagers. One is going to be a freshman in college and another a freshman in high school. I am married to a wonderful husband of almost 17 years. I was diagnosed on May 6, 2015 with Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia (WM).

A day before my 29th birthday, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma stage IV. No one expects a cancer diagnosis, especially when you’re young. It was a game changer for the rest of my life.

After having swollen lymph nodes for some time, my nine-year-old son, Jaden was diagnosed with lymphoma in May 2016. This little guy took the news like a champ.

Jack is an eight-year-old boy in second grade at Gayton Elementary School. He has a passion for all things sports, soccer being his favorite. He also plays baseball, basketball, participates in a swim team in the summer, and has recently taken up tennis.

My name is Glenn Gutierrez and at 48 years of age I had never contemplated the idea of having to deal with cancer and its treatment. It was hard to think that potentially I could succumb to this, especially when I was father to two young men who still needed me, and son to an aging mother who sadly passed on from complications related to Alzheimer's while I underwent treatment.