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My Anxiety Made Me Avoid a Lump on My Jawline for 15 Years

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Around 15 years ago, I found a lump on my jawline. Ever since then, I have hidden it from absolutely everyone I know — until today.

Getting to this point has been a perfect storm of constant anxiety, a tendency to avoid anything which causes anxiety, and a case of it simply never being the “right time” to bring it up.

Saying that, there never is a “right time” to tell someone you think you might have cancer. I first felt the lump in my late teens, around the time just about everyone had a Motorola Razr — you remember, I’m sure, the flip phone with the metal keypad.

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