ImAnIdeaMan

So I actually had the same a few years ago in 2016 (I was 27 at the time) and it was somewhat similar story. I had noticed a bump on one of my balls and got it checked out and apparently it was nothing. Maybe a year (?) later it actually started hurting and I got it checked out and went to a urologist this time and sure enough, it was cancer. I had surgery within days of getting diagnosed and then did 6 weeks of chemo a month or two later as a precaution to kill any possible spread that wasn't detectable yet.

As a lesson for those reading: If you have something weird with your testicles, see a testicle expert (by that I mean a urologist, not OP's mom)

I'm reading your comments in Saul Goodman's character and I fucking love you for it.

I ask this question to be genuinely curious, not critical. Did you contact any US (or maybe at least NA) manufacturing options for manufacturing or explore non-China options and if so, what was the relative cost difference?

How do you feel in retrospect about the doctors telling you that you had a year to live? Are you glad they told you, do you feel it made you better prepared or more grateful that you're alive now, than perhaps you otherwise wouldn't have been? Or are you somewhat bitter (probably for lack of a better work) and wished they had said nothing or estimated longer?

I've always been curious about this, as sometimes I've seen people say a doctor said I had ____ to live and they were wrong in sort of a resentful way, but it seems like they would rather estimate short than the other way around.

Thanks for the opportunity to ask.

What other things did you do the trip without?