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Cancer [14 Sep 2006|01:54pm] [ mood | fine ] [ music | Cute Is What We Aim For - Newport Living ] I was told today that I have papillary thyroid cancer. I wasn't expecting it to be cancer because my physician told me that it usually affects older people. I'm taking the news well. For the past two to three years I felt like there was something wrong with me, like I had some kind of disease, disorder, or even cancer. So I will definitely have to undergo surgery. From there, the surgeon will know the severity of the cancer. I'm starting college in a little over a week, but my physician mentioned that it may have to be postphoned. That's what sucks about it, I don't want having cancer to significantly affect my life. I don't want to take pills for the rest of my life. But I do feel that it happened to me for a reason. It's an experience that maybe I need to go through to become a stonger person with a better outlook on life. At least I'm not dead or have a limb that got chopped off. 4 said I was brilliant and then it came to me

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