I left Ithaca Monday at noon by bus to New York. I took an Uber to JFK, flew to London, and then flew to Bangalore, arriving here at 5 am on Wednesday. In order to do this I had to take two covid tests so that I would have evidence of a negative test within …
Monthly Archives: October 2021
The birthday gift I didn’t know I got
I wrote my last blog entry, about the loss of a half a thyroid along with its cancer, the morning after the surgery. That was during a calm moment similar to right now. I had no idea how short that moment was going to be. An hour later I was chilled, and soon I was …
The left lobe of my thyroid’s last day
Last week Dr. Lee, the endocrine surgeon, drew this handy diagram of my thyroid, showing the thyroid cancer, the nearby nerves and windpipe, and the four parathyroid glands. And she listed the possible things to do about it (fig. 1, pink labels added). Then Monday this week I met …