Dr. Jenna Taglienti

If they just see you and see yourself, let people in a little bit more.

And that was a huge life lesson.

It did change my trajectory.

I changed completely the way I was leading.

Yeah so I'm still pretty early in this whole medical journey and the shock and all of that like I'm still in it but I'll tell you back in November it was the day before Thanksgiving I went to the hospital with the worst pain I've ever had and I thought it was a kidney stone not that I've had them before but I figured like everyone says that's the worst pain in your life so I

keep going.

I'm like, work me up for a kidney stone.

This typical doctor, like I think of diagnosing myself.

And they listened to me.

They did work me up for a kidney stone.

But it turned out on the CAT scan of the abdomen that they did, it caught my right lower lobe of my lung.

And I was lucky about that because that's what showed the tumor there.

And why it was causing such pain was it infected the

like the plural space there.

So that was causing intense pain at the moment.

And all I remember, like, I just was like, I need to get home.

I'm hosting Thanksgiving.

Just give.

like, catch me up, get me something to get through this.

And then we'll figure it out later.