A couple weeks back, I went with my husband and a big group of friends to see Kenny Chesney and had the best night of Summer 2011. The next day I had a biopsy taken of my thyroid. Then our family took off to NYC for 5 days for a fantastic end-of-summer vacation. A few days later, we hear of the wonderful news of my daughter's CLEAR MRI. A few days after that, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
I too (like my daughter) have a great prognosis to be completely cured. This doesn't change the fact that exactly one year later I am reliving the experience - except it is my own diagnosis. Somehow this makes everything easier than last year's experience with my daughter.
So now my cancer experience has broadened and expanded to personal experience. Thyroid disease and nodules are so very common, however, only 5% of these nodules are cancerous. I'm in that 5%. My daughter's tumor was so rare that Sick Kids hospital has seen only 3 cases in the last decade prior to her case.
Did lightening just strike twice in our household in the last year? I think so.
I too (like my daughter) have a great prognosis to be completely cured. This doesn't change the fact that exactly one year later I am reliving the experience - except it is my own diagnosis. Somehow this makes everything easier than last year's experience with my daughter.
So now my cancer experience has broadened and expanded to personal experience. Thyroid disease and nodules are so very common, however, only 5% of these nodules are cancerous. I'm in that 5%. My daughter's tumor was so rare that Sick Kids hospital has seen only 3 cases in the last decade prior to her case.
Did lightening just strike twice in our household in the last year? I think so.
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