isn't it ironic?

So after I posted my last blog about being willing to share my experiences with others, but not making any "friends" at chemotherapy, another doctor at the cancer center approached me while I was finishing treatment and said a young woman a few years younger than me was just diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and would be starting the same treatment as I am on. She was just finishing with her bone marrow biopsy and was also interested in talking to me after my treatment. So, considering what I wrote about earlier, I don't know if that's irony, a coincidence, fate?

I went into her examination room after I finished my treatment and she had just finished the biopsy and I couldn't stop thinking about how cancer is hitting so many young people. 

I think I was a little loopy after treatment, but I told her a few things, showed her my port (which she said was much smaller than she expected, so I feel as if I've already helped), and asked if she had questions. Her first question was about the hair loss. I told her that this was my real hair and that I've been really lucky so far, but that it worries me every day. I knows everyone is so different and some people lose their hair much sooner, but that I am still trying to accept life as a person without hair, if or when that happens. It surely is the most difficult part of this process, especially for women.

It wasn't until we exchanged numbers and emails that we found out that we both graduated from the same high school and that she's knows some of my band friends. I texted her later that night with more info and advice, after I had taken another nap.

I didn't think I would meet someone so soon who is my age, with a similar diagnosis, starting the same regimen, and feeling the way I was feeling just a few months ago (and still do feel now). I feel comforted in a way, knowing that I can hopefully help this young woman and let her know that she (we) will be okay and get through this and come out even stronger on the other side.