He Ignored Symptoms for 3 Years.
Andy Goodspeed ignored his symptoms for nearly three years — heartburn, fatigue, back pain he chalked up to age and restaurant work. By the time doctors found the truth, he had stage 4 gastric cancer in his bones, liver, and lymph nodes, and six months to live.
He survived. And in this episode of Advocacy at Work, he shares the parts of that story nobody talks about: describing his first MRI as a Christmas tree lit up with tumors, the isolation that hit when the phone calls stopped after he was declared cancer-free, and the mirror moment that pushed a self-described hermit onto Capitol Hill…
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