Moment of truth...
18 years ago
...in approximately 20 hours.
8am tomorrow morning is an appointment with health services at UMass. For the same problems that have been plaguing my body for the last 6+ years, that none of the 4 or 5 doctors I've been shuffled between has had the decency to hear me out on. And quite frankly, for the first time in the last 18 years, I am afraid. Ever since I found that my 20-yr old brother had testicular cancer and have put together a family history that's beginning to look like it should be documented in an oncologist's book somewhere, I have been haunted by what this doctor's appointment regarding the myriad symptoms of the cumulate past 6 years of my life is going to show to me. Mainly because if I'm following in the collective footsteps of my forebears and my brother, there is a possibility that it may already be too late.
8am tomorrow morning is an appointment with health services at UMass. For the same problems that have been plaguing my body for the last 6+ years, that none of the 4 or 5 doctors I've been shuffled between has had the decency to hear me out on. And quite frankly, for the first time in the last 18 years, I am afraid. Ever since I found that my 20-yr old brother had testicular cancer and have put together a family history that's beginning to look like it should be documented in an oncologist's book somewhere, I have been haunted by what this doctor's appointment regarding the myriad symptoms of the cumulate past 6 years of my life is going to show to me. Mainly because if I'm following in the collective footsteps of my forebears and my brother, there is a possibility that it may already be too late.
Call me when you get out of the appointment. I WILL answer it, even if I'm half asleep.