BODY AND SOUL
MARC VALENTINE-MORTON
47 // MEDICALLY RETIRED FORMER ACTOR // HE/HIM
In December 2019, I found a lump on my neck on the left side of my Adam’s apple. Come January, it hadn’t gone and, indeed, felt a bit bigger, so I went to see my GP. He examined my neck and sat down, looking scared, and said, “I need to put you on an urgent thyroid cancer referral.”
Two weeks later, I saw my specialist and was sent for an ultrasound. I was chatting away with the sonographer when halfway through, she just stopped talking. I asked her what was wrong, and she said I had nodules in my thyroid. I said, “How many?” She replied, “Too many to count.” She told me, “I’m really sorry, you don’t want to hear this, but I think you have thyroid cancer.”
What followed was biopsies and more ultrasounds… and then an MRI. Two days after my MRI, my surgeon rang me and said he wanted to see me the next day. I said, “So,
