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This is a follow-up to my first article, My Thyroid Got Cancer. The ultrasounds are soothing. The whir of the machine, the doctor’s thoughtful grunts as she probes my neck, the crackle of the paper on the examination table. It is very familiar to me now. I relax into it and close my eyes. I… Continue reading My thyroid got cancer: one year later
My thyroid got cancer some time ago. The doctors can’t say when because there was no way to determine a growth rate. It might have been thirty years ago when my throat was X-rayed during a bout with really bad croup, but nobody knows. On January 29, 2017, a talented surgeon at Kaiser in Walnut… Continue reading My thyroid got cancer