In 2023, Jack David was on his family’s annual trip to Priest Lake, Idaho, when he woke up in the middle of that vacation and felt a swollen lymph node.
He made a few jokes about what it could be, then saw his doctor when he returned home to Seattle, which led to a referral to an otolaryngologist. David, 49, was given a prescription for antibiotics, but the node didn’t subside.
Results from a biopsy appeared normal, but the node still didn’t disappear…