Instead of the 1-2 week timeline I was told it may take to receive my results, the very next day after my biopsy I received a notification that a new lab result was available in my health portal. Here was my answer! Is it nothing? Or is it a big something? I frantically scrambled to …
Month: September 2021
The Biopsy
The day of my biopsy, I went alone. I was ushered around the hospital, feeling like a lost child until I was finally directed to the intervention radiology department; deep in the hospital basement. I sat there sullenly in the waiting room, fiddling with my sweater and looking down at my feet, occasionally locking eyes …
Ultrasound Report
It took a couple months to get an appointment with the endocrinologist my general practitioner recommended I see. All I knew at this point was that the radiologist saw some concerning characteristics in my tumor. When I first met my endo, I could tell she was a good one. I instantly trusted her opinion and …
Cancer Scares Leading to Diagnosis
I've decided that before I jump into my experience with thyroid cancer, I should give a little bit of context on my medical history. I have faced several cancer scares before. The first one was the summer before my junior year of college when I discovered a lump in my breast. I rushed to a …
“Young and Healthy”
The first time I had to check “yes” to having a history of cancer, it felt like a punch in the gut. You’re immediately put in this high risk box. You can visibly see your doctors eyes light up when you mention that six letter word as they think, "Well this case just got more …
The Little Things
When you're going through surgery and treatments, people sympathize. But the hardest parts are not the big moments. It’s the moments after, when you’re grappling with this new invisible limb, that are the most difficult. Cancer and it's side effects do not go away overnight. It likes to show up in simple and unexpected ways. …
Why the “good” cancer?
“If you had to pick a cancer, this is the one to get.” Cancer can’t be equivocated with the word good, yet so many doctors, friends, and strangers assured me that thyroid cancer was “the good cancer”. As grateful as I am for things not being more serious, I am still saddened and scared by …
The "Good" Cancer 