Kate Rice is a runner, rock ’n roll singer and stand up comic who performs mostly in the shower but sometimes on stage. She’s an author and former reporter. She lives in Park City, Utah, where she is a ski instructor and rock ’n roll radio DJ.
Courtesy of Jillian Meyer PhotoOn October 1, 2021, after having what I had thought was routine thyroid surgery, I was diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer, a cancer so rare that none of my doctors had ever seen it before. It’s so aggressive that it only exists as Stage IV.It’s October 2023.
I struggled to pull myself together. I kept on running. I became a certified yoga sculpt instructor. I read self-help books. I not only talked to my therapist once a week, I sent her email after email filled with grief and fury. The stage was a place where I could escape my pain for a few hours. But it was still there. The wounds wrought by my past were still raw inside me, haunting my dreams and shadowing my days.I still planned to leave New York and return to the mountains, but I was waiting for my youngest child to graduate from high school.
And then I bought something many people facing cancer like mine would never think to buy: a T-Card, a discount ski pass for Telluride Ski Resort, near where one of my brothers lives in Colorado. The growth was benign and the dermatologist just froze it off, but I remembered the doctor’s respect for this cancer and the need for constant surveillance.
“We think you’re a good candidate for immunotherapy,” the nurse told me. “Can you come back to Houston next week?”I flew back to Houston. CT and PET scans showed I was still disease-free. I was the perfect candidate for immunotherapy.It helps my body keep me healthy and disease-free.As I walked out of MD Anderson after hearing the good news, I wept tears of joy and gratitude. The deadly cancer I’d been diagnosed with had just become a disease that is chronic but manageable.
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