
From Healthy to Hospitalized in Days: One Woman’s Journey Through Rare Lymphoma | Patient Stories | PatientWing
When Cheryl Airy woke up with a puffy face one summer morning in 2022, she brushed it off. It wasn’t allergy season, and she didn’t usually get them anyway. But the puffiness returned the next day—disappearing entirely by the third. That afternoon, her back seized with a sharp, stabbing pain that left her screaming when she tried to lie down.