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But what I think a lot of people don't realize from that time period, is that many people, like my wife (@HistoryBoutique), could not get diagnosed with ANYTHING other than:
"Oh, it's probably COVID..."
During one doctor's visit about her tongue, they wouldn't even let her take her mask off so they could look at it.
We followed ALL the rules during COVID.
We wore masks for well over a year, we listened to and did whatever the experts who came on CNN told us to do.
We even didn't allow my parents to come visit their new grandson in person for weeks because we were so thoroughly terrified of him getting sick with COVD.
We stayed home. We vaccinated. We social distanced.
None of that mattered.
She had CANCER and we didn't know, and wouldn't know it for years to come.
Maybe if we did, she wouldn't have had such a large chunk of her tongue missing.
Maybe the surgery would have been easier.
Maybe she wouldn't have had to eat out a straw for months.
Maybe she isn't the only one with a story like that...
It's been a couple years.
She's cancer-free now.
But I'll never forget the look she gave me when she got off the phone and said: