Last August, Casey Katie began to wake up in the morning, soaked in sweat.
“I wasn’t hot. I was actually cold because I was under a fan,” Katie says, 30 years old from Philadelphia, says today.com. “It was a completely irrigating night sweat.”
She wore a ring of URA, which gave her a friend, and from the beginning of the night sizes, she often informed her that she “shows that she sings from big diseases.” Katie saw many doctors to reach the bottom of changes in her body, but no one could find the cause.
Then, last spring, Katie experienced an emergency medical care while traveling to Iceland, where doctors told her that they suspected there was cancer.
In April, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at Stage 4. Only her plow was noticed something wrong with her hat.
“I saw all these fever, but nothing else,” she says. “I had all these vague symptoms. And I saw my primary assistance supplier, I saw a doctor of GI, I received a colonoscopy and endoscopy to check for any type of internal bleeding – all this was negative.”
Night sweat and feverish
At the end of last summer, Katie continued to wake up with night sweating.
“They are gradually getting worse,” she says. “I didn’t think much about what is really sad to say.”
Pediatric nurse downplay your symptoms “Because (in medicine) you see so many crazy things on a daily basis that you could never think that they would happen to you.”
At the time, she wore a Ura and Apple Watch ring to track her menstrual cycle and compare the data. The ring lifted the spiked temperatures of Katie.
“If your temperature is so high above your normal, they just accept that you are sick,” she says. “I ignored it for a few months because I (I thought):” Maybe it is exactly where I am in my cycle. ” I was thinking of every excuse in the book why it may not be accurate. “
After a few months of experience of night sweaty and fever, Casey Katie visited several doctors to find out what was going on with her health. It was still months before she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. (Kindness Casey Katie)
After a few months, Katie was worried and appointed meetings with different doctors to find out why she had experienced night sweaty and fever.
“My doctors performed all the tests,” she says. “My blood work was completely normal, except that I had a shortage of iron.
She even met with a hematologist oncologist to exclude cancer.
“She said there was a very low suspicion that what I was dealing with was a malignancy,” Katie recalls. “All my blood was quite normal.”
The doctor also noted that Cattie has no tangible lymph nodes, which may be a sign of cancer (although it is often a sign of viral infections).
While Katie still felt that something was wrong, the doctors found no reason for her fever, so she continued with her life. To celebrate her 30th birthday, she scheduled a trip to Iceland and felt “excited to explore a new country.”
But “things were off from the beginning,” she recalls. “I was touring Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, with a friend of mine, and I looked at him and I was like,” God, what is the cat here? I feel like I can’t breathe. “
Her friend replied that they were “literally at sea level.” Katie remembers wondering if there is a flu and therefore there are breathing problems. During the journey, she continued to fight walking, and she gradually felt so bad that she lost her appetite. By the end, Katie was so weak.
“I couldn’t even get to the restaurant in the neighborhood without stopping breathtaking three or four times,” she says.
Katie postponed to see a doctor in Iceland because she was concerned about the price. But on the day before she left, she visited the emergency room because she was worried that she would not be able to fly home because of her labor breathing. Her doctors diagnosed a “massive pleural effusion” that occurs when the fluid pools around the lungs, which impedes breathing.
“I had a gallon of fluid in my chest,” Katie says. “I pulled internally for the week leading to my diagnosis.”
In the emergency room, doctors drained the liquid from her breasts so she could fly home. They also ordered a CT scanned and told Katie “They think it’s cancer” because they found enlarged lymph nodes. They recommended that she be biopsy of lymph nodes and PET scanning for a definitive diagnosis.
A few days after returning home, breathing became difficult again because her breasts were filled with fluid again. She visited a local emergency room and the doctors acknowledged her.
“They squeezed me with a chest tube,” Katie says. “I had a pet scan two days later, which ignited like a Christmas tree. They did a biopsy of the lymph nodes three days after that.”
The tests have led to a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis of Stage 4 and she underwent her first round of chemotherapy while she is still in the hospital. After two and a half she returned home.
Doctors said her lymphoma had influenced the lymph nodes deep in her chest, causing him to fill with fluid.
“They were so big,” she says. “It caused irritation in my chest cavity, and it made my body secrete more pleural fluid and continue to accumulate again in my chest.”
In total, Katie will undergo 12 rounds of chemotherapy and immunotherapy every two weeks. By the beginning of August 2025 it was more than half the way through treatment.
“Every round is different,” she says. “I just don’t have much appetite.”
She also experienced some nerve damage and feels “chronically dehydrated”.
She still wears the plow of the plow.
“This tells me a few days after the treatment that I am showing slight signs of a disease that is really interesting to me (s) makes sense, because then I feel in my worst,” she says.
Hodgkin Lymphoma
A type of cancer that originates from white blood cells, Hodgkin’s lymphoma often grows in the lymph nodes, says the American Cancer Society. It can affect the lymph nodes in the chest, abdomen and pelvis, although it can also occur in the spleen, bone marrow, thymus, gastrointestinal tract or adenoids and tonsils.
Fers and night sweat are two of the common symptoms, according to the Mayo clinic.
The US Cancer Society says nearly 9,000 people will be diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2025. It is usually young, although it can affect children and elderly adults. Treatment includes chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation or targeted therapy.
Wearers detecting diseases
Wearing devices, such as smart watches and rings, are good for finding a heart rate and heart rate, but for body temperature, “depends on the device,” says Michael Snyder, chairman of Dyday.com.
This said, wearing can accurately find a change in a person’s starting performance, “So even if the temperature is not completely accurate, you can take the replacement just well,” adds Snyder, who studies how wearers can be used to find diseases before the symptoms begin.
Casey Katie is more than half the time that is treated for lymphoma at Stage 4 Hodgkin. (Kindness Casey Katie)
Synder and his team have conducted studies showing that wearers know when people have respiratory viral infections, such as Covid-19, as “heart rate jumps up,” he says. They can even detect Covid-19 before the symptoms of his studies found.
And anecdotal reports show that smart clocks and rings may also notice atrial fibrillation as the condition causes an incorrect heart rate.
Although wearers can accurately monitor the heart rate, they may not always identify the cause of change or increase – and there can be many, from continuing stress to running a marathon.
“The bottom line is what he tells you is that something is off. It doesn’t always tell you what it is,” says Sander. “You can contexture it many times.
If your wearing tells you about an abnormal change in your body, he recommends talking to a doctor.
“If you continue, you need to check it. It is very similar to the light of your car’s engine,” he says. “If you just flash, you’ll probably ignore it. But if it stays for a while, you’ll probably check your car.”
“Awesome amazing”
As a pediatric nurse, Katie works in the hospital with children. It is released from absence as chemotherapy has erased its immune system and is worried about infection with disease. Plus, the 12-hour shifts during the navigation of chemotherapy seemed difficult.
She has recently undergone scanning and is pleased with how well the treatment works.
“My scans were clear, which is frighteningly incredible, given that I had tumors on my lungs, throughout my esophagus. I had them on my spleen,” she says.
Because Katie, who is also a musician, thinks of her experience, it still looks amazing.
“When I think about everything I went through in April, I really can’t believe this happened to me,” she says. “They say you have cancer only in a foreign country is a type of trauma that I would not wish for anyone.”
Katie hopes people will learn the importance of advocating their health to hear her story.
Casey Katie hopes that her story encourages people to become defenders of their health when something looks wrong. (Kindness Casey Katie)
“I went eight months with doctors who missed my diagnosis – doctors with 40 years of experience in treating lymphoma and specialized in the type of cancer I have. I trusted them,” she says.
“I don’t want to throw anyone under the bus here. In general, if you feel the gut that something is wrong, you have to trust this feeling of the intestine.”
Correction (August 6, 2025 20:50): An earlier version mistakenly stood that Cattie has a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She has Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
This article was originally published on Today.com