Thyroid cancer: Pandemic cancer diagnosis taught me community helps recovery

Updated: June 29, 2021, 10:23 am
© Lindsay Bruce
If you get cancer in a pandemic – did it really happen?
A lot of things have been given to us throughout these last 18 months. We’ve had new protections through vaccines, new ways of working, new pressures and strains, new ways of communicating, even.
But for all of that, something powerful was also removed: bearing witness to life’s big moments.
© Lindsay Bruce
Lindsay Bruce
Last year I visited my doctor, worried the lump in my neck and pain when I swallowed was more than just swollen glands or a bad throat. I wasn’t a candidate for sinister things, he reassured me, but would refer me – with the caveat: “But we are in a pandemic, remember.”

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