{"id":2189,"date":"2007-03-12T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T18:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/good_luck_pity_who_knows.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:44:07","slug":"good_luck_pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/good_luck_pity.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Luck? Pity? Who Knows?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure the mugger feels much better about his place in the universe now that he’s been koaned by the Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A crackhead mugger nearly choked a woman to death in the vestibule of her Harlem building last fall — but wound up saving her life.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Chow, 30, who works at an arts group, was put in a headlock and choked until she passed out on Oct. 1. She woke up without her purse.<\/p>\n

Even though she felt only slight pain in her neck, responding cops and medics convinced her to go to the hospital. The checkup found Chow had thyroid cancer.<\/p>\n

“If it hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have discovered the cancer so early, if at all,” said Chow, who was declared cancer-free just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Following the harrowing brush with death at the hands of her attacker, a CAT scan of her neck at North General Hospital revealed the small mass on her thyroid.<\/p>\n

“The doctor said, ‘You’ll be fine, except you have this nodule that the radiologist said you should get checked out,’ ” Chow recalled.<\/p>\n

Follow-ups with a doctor and pathologist revealed the worst: Chow was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma, a cancerous mass on thyroid tissue.<\/p>\n

In December, a surgeon removed the cancerous tissue. Mount Sinai endocrinologist Dr. Richard Haber last month determined the cancer had been eradicated, though Chow must take medication for life.<\/p>\n

“It probably would have been bad if I had not been mugged,” she said. “It would have gotten to me much later and in a larger state.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure the mugger feels much better about his place in the universe now that he’s been koaned by the Post: A crackhead mugger nearly choked a woman to death in the vestibule of her Harlem building last fall — but wound up saving her life. Jennifer Chow, 30, who works at an arts group, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}