A 39-year-old Texas woman underwent ‘intensive’ chemotherapy only to find out she never had cancer at all.
Her tests revealed two kidney stones, but also flagged a mass on her spleen. Lisa then underwent successful surgery to remove the mass in January of last year — but that’s when events took a turn.
Monk claims that the spleen was sent to three different pathology labs to be tested before finally being sent to a fourth lab, where it tested positive for a rare and terminal form of cancer, called clear cell angiosarcoma, as per the news report.
“It was a blood vessel type of cancer found in the spleen. I didn’t tell my family at this point that it was terminal, or I only had 15 months to live, I just told them it was bad but I was going to try to fight it,” Monk said in the video.
Monk then followed an “aggressive” chemotherapy regimen. She was referred to a cancer hospital and had her first round of chemo in March 2023.
“It was a very dark time. I was writing goodbye letters and letters to the grandchildren I would never meet and the weddings I would never attend,” Monk said.
The pathology report, her doctor explained, was wrong.
“All of a sudden she just stops talking and has this look on her face. She turned to me and looked completely horrified and told me she needed to get the doctor and then ran out of the room. She left me alone for about 15 minutes and the doctor came back in. He said a lot of medical lingo to me and then told me I didn’t have cancer.”
“At the time I was in shock but now I feel the more appropriate response would be ‘I’m sorry.’ I asked for a copy of their pathology report and I found a hallway to call my husband and tell him the news.”
“I had had chemotherapy during this time and they could have told me a month earlier and I would have avoided the second round of chemotherapy if they had bothered to read their own pathology report,” Monk added.
