Reclining in the chair, my eyes flicked from one side of the room to the other as the dentist poked around in my mouth.
‘I’m going to refer you for a biopsy,’ he said.
It was 2015, and I’d had the same white patch on my tongue for almost five years.
To be honest, I was pretty unfazed by the whole thing.
It didn’t hurt and you could barely see it.
And when the biopsy returned a diagnosis of oral thrush, I still wasn’t too worried.
I was prescribed medication and the mark soon disappeared.
Sorted.
Only, the ghostly patch, around two millimetres, returned a month later.
And this time, I decided to leave it, hoping it would sort itself out.
But by November 2017, I was feeling exhausted.
‘You’re looking thinner, too,’ my boyfriend Craig, then 29, remarked.
I’d lost 1st 7lb, but I put it down to stress.
Working with special-needs students in a secondary school, I was under a lot of pressure.
Only by now, the white blemish on my tongue was getting bigger than ever.
By February 2018, my health was deteriorating.
After arriving back home from a holiday in Italy, I felt really sick and couldn’t stop retching.
As I lay on the sofa in pain, I could see bright lights and images above me.
I was hallucinating.
Then the next morning, I noticed two new lumps on my tongue.
They were frequently bleeding and becoming more and more painful every day.
Oral thrush back with a vengeance, I thought to myself.
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