Hitting Home: Breast Cancer, Part 2
Sometimes irony can be divine intervention in disguise. That’s what happened to me on the road to finding a new gynecologist. My health insurance changed and my current gynecologist fell out of network. Time to find a new one.
After a search of “in network” options, I met with a well-respected female physician in my community. During the first visit she quickly signaled she was listening and had done her homework by reviewing my past records before our appointment. It was a pleasant visit. I liked her and her staff. Little did I know at the time that a “perfect storm” was just days away from upending my life. A few days later, the women’s mammogram center called. There was a problem with my annual mammogram, and I needed to come back immediately for more testing. The cancer storm had arrived.
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A dear girlfriend of mine two years ago developed a mysterious illness with a series of what appeared unrelated symptoms that triggered a hospital admission and a life threatening rare illness. She had one of those “one in a million” diagnoses that only a TV doctor character like House could solve. What ultimately saved her life was

