Month leading up to surgery
After the second diagnosis, my parents and I had a meeting with my endocrinologist and the head of sub-specialty medicine at Kaiser. They didn't apologize as much as I'd have liked them to for the mistake that was made in my misdiagnosis, but whatever. Dr. Chan explained that her gut instinct had been that it was cancer. She explained the various indicators she had seen. So I still trusted her judgment. My Mom was very concerned and brought up that perhaps I should have a new biopsy. Of course it makes sense--the results of the first biopsy had been misread and mishandled and it felt tainted. But I felt so fragile and bummed out about everything and I didn't want to have another biopsy, so we moved on. My Mom took me to the Cheesecake Factory, my favorite restaurant, after that meeting. The pain of this journey has been softened by doing fun things like eating at my favorite restaurant or just doing fun things. I had a lot of fun things to do in May, actually. I saw Modes