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But during my junior year, over a period of a couple of weeks, several people asked me what was wrong with my nose. I finally took notice of the bump pushing against my right nostril, but it didn’t seem like a big deal. I just assumed it would go away. When it didn’t, I made an appointment with a doctor who suggested a biopsy.
It turned out that I had a tumor - a rare fibrosarcoma. Although the bulk of it had been removed during the biopsy, my doctor said I’d need a follow-up surgery to excise any remaining tumor cells. I wasn’t alarmed; my assessment of the situation was that I had little to worry about. The procedure proved to be minor. With only a few sutures alongside of my nose and a few more inside my pallet, I returned to classes looking like I had been in a fight with someone, not something. …read the rest of this entry»
