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“I didn’t have any symptoms. I just had a spooky dream that I couldn’t shake. It sounds weird, but it’s the truth. My mom passed away in March of 2020 from cervical cancer. We found a diary of hers where she wrote in 2017, ‘I think I have cancer,’ but never went to the doctor to get it checked out because she was scared. Jump ahead a year, and in October of 2021, I dreamt that she came into my living room and sat on my couch. She had this large purple dot on the right side of her neck, and I said, ‘Mom, what is that on your neck?’ And she looked at me and said, “Don’t be like me. Go to the doctor and ask. It means death if you don’t.” I woke up right afterward. It was a weird dream, but I tried just to dismiss it. Something about it, though, kept nagging at me.”
“So in February 2022, I finally decided that I needed to get checked up anyway and made an appointment with my doctor for the first checkup I’d had in years.
All of my blood came back normal. My urine was fine, too. The only things the doctor worried about were my blood pressure and weight, which were a little higher than she liked, and she asked me to make some lifestyle changes. The appointment was wrapping up when she said, ‘Well, let me just do a quick physical to say we’ve been thorough.’ When she felt my neck checking for lymph nodes, I saw her face change, and she said, ‘You have a nodule on your thyroid. It’s probably benign, most of them are, but I’m going to refer you to endocrinology just in case.’
To make an already long story shorter, it was not benign. I was diagnosed with Papillary Thyroid Cancer in April of 2022 and had a full Thyroidectomy in May 2022, where they removed a 3.7cm tumor from my neck — I have been fine ever since, with no sign of cancer in the last two years. I’ll have to have regular checkups for the rest of my life, though. Because PTC grows slowly, the endocrinologist said I could have had it for ten years or more. Now, according to him, I’m more likely to die from something else than I am from this cancer.
Now, I don’t necessarily believe in paranormal stuff, but I don’t not believe in it either. So, did my mom come back in a dream to warn me about my tumor? Did my body manifest the dream as a way to let me know about the tumor because I somehow knew about it subconsciously? Was it all just a coincidence? I don’t know, but I’m glad I listened to that dream either way.”