I was like, 'I probably have cancer LOL.' Little did I know. I was joking with my friends at school the day I went in for blood work (telling my friends that I was gonna miss lunch and recess to go back to the doctor). That book was the only reason I knew that excessive bruising could indicate leukemia. One of the symptoms they discuss in the book was that he had a ton of bruises. "Funny enough, there was a pretty popular book at the time that a bunch of my friends and I had all recently read. Apparently the pediatrician left his office to drive to our house and find my parents as soon as he saw the results, because he was worried I was going to have an accident or something and bleed out. My dad had anemia when he was a kid, so we thought it was probably that. We went back to the pediatrician to get blood work done. Woke up the next day with a bruise probably 6 or 7 inches in diameter on my leg. The Grateful Dead Bolt is an iconic symbol that has become synonymous with one of the most legendary bands in music history. We’re in a small town, so they are in the same friend group.) A couple of weeks later, I was at school and one of my friends pushed his chair back real hard as I was walking behind him. (I think my parents still kind of resent him for that. We thought it was probably just from playing soccer and roughhousing, because I felt fine otherwise. Went to my normal pediatrician for my yearly physical and mentioned it to him. If something feels wrong, insist on a checkup. "What I want to say is, it's your body, and you know it best. Yes, a 20-plus-year-old cancerous tumor in my mom stayed as a tumor and never went anywhere else. "When they took it out, they asked my mother to sign a form donating the tumor for research because it was one of the biggest, oldest tumors that had not progressed to stage 2 they had ever seen. They sent her for imaging and stuff and found a tumor the size of a tennis ball on her ovary. Lo and behold, there it was, something that wasn't supposed to be there. The doctor poked and pressed and said, 'I don't feel anything.' He then asked her to lie on her side and pressed again. "She went for a checkup and again raised the issue. They would poke and prod and tell her, 'Oh, it's normal, that's your intestine, might just be your kidney moving slightly lower,' yada yada. For the next 20-odd years, every time she visited a doctor, she would ask about it. She said that sometimes she could feel it by pressing down in her abdomen. According to her, there was a part somewhere in her left abdomen that didn't feel like it should be there. "When my mother was around 30, she felt that something was wrong in her abdomen.
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