I started this new blog with the intention of trying to be as positive as I can, as often as I can. I let myself think too many negative thoughts too often in my old blog and I don't want to go back to that. I'm finding that my thoughts are incredibly negative today, but there's nothing that I can do about it.

My sister has been a little unwell recently and went to the doctors today, queue a mad rush of blood tests, x-rays and god knows what else! I was at home blissfully unaware of what my sister and my mum were going through. The doctor's thinking that my sister could have Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphatic cancer. My sister doesn't realise how serious it is, but apparently my mum nearly burst into tears when the doctor said what he feared it might be. My mum's been a nurse most of her life, so when she told me about that and started crying, I knew it was serious. My sister worries over the slightest thing, so my mum doesn't want her knowing that it could be that until she's been officially diagnosed.

Blood test results take a few days so its going to be an anxious wait for me, mum and dad. Being a university student who lives for Wikipedia, I went to check it out and apparently the survival rate is 90% if its caught early - I hope it has been caught early!