So This Crazy Thing Happened: I Got Cancer!

TJ Condon
5 min readJan 19, 2021
Woman striking sassy pose and wearing a “Cancer You Picked the Wrong Girl” gray and white t-shirt

I usually do my annual round of doctor visits in the fall. As kids go back to school and the air gets crisp, I head to the land of needles and scales.

It was at my annual gynecological exam the good doctor said:

“You don’t usually get to feel one this big.”

He was teaching a young doctor in training how to do a thyroid exam. Then I felt…

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TJ Condon

Author of Some Assembly Required, a True Story of Love and Organ Transplants, published by Black Rose Writing in May 2021. Available at your favorite bookseller