Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers. I had a nice appointment yesterday with Dr. Orlando. It turns out there are no nodules on the left side of my thyroid, which is a big answer to prayer. The plan is that I will have the large nodule and the right half of my thyroid removed on May 31. While I am under, they will quickly send the mass to pathology to see if it is cancerous. If it is, the doc will take out all of my thyroid, if not he'll just stitch me up.
The reason thyroid cancer is a "nice one to have" is because the treatment is so specialized, that the medicine to kill all the thyroid cells does not effect any other systems in the body. It is a very advanced cancer treatment. There is still only about 1/3 chance that it is even cancerous, but if it is, it is really easy to treat.
One night in the hospital and a week or so off, and I will be back to full swing (or close to it).
Thanks for your prayers. Love to you all.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Doctor Update 1
As some of you may know, I have been visiting the doctor a bit more than normal lately. In fact, visiting at all is rare for me. I am a very healthy person, thanks be to God. Sometimes I will even extend my yearly visit a bit long, just because time slips away, but I was a good girl and went just recently. At my routine check-up they found a nodule on my thyroid. I went the next day to have an ultrasound of the nodule. That is where the tech asked me, "Are you tried a lot, because your thyroid is large?" After a bit of a laugh, I said, "That may have nothing to do with my thyroid, I have 4 kids under 8, a farming, coaching football husband, a part-time job and a house to run." "YA, I am tired."
Anyway, back to my point. It turns out that my thyroid is not large, just the nodule attached to my thyroid is large. So, the next step was to have a biopsy. I did that, and the results we inconclusive. There are some suspect tissues on the nodule that always present as be begnign, but could be cancerous. The only way to tell is to look at it. Some how pretty soon they are going to look at it and let me know.
I decided to blog this before my meeting with the surgeon tomorrow, just to record the events of this journey as they unfold. I am told, and through my research have discovered, that thyroid nodules are very common and most are not cancerous. But if it does happen to be cancerous, it is the kind of cancer you want (if that makes any sense). They will remove all or part of my thyroid, which I hope to learn more about tomorrow.
So, for know, please pray that the nodule is gone. If God chooses to let it be there, then please pray that only 1/2 my thyroid needs to be taken out, and it is not cancerous. Of course, many people are walking around with no thyroid and take medicine everyday....there are worse things. If it needs taken out, it will be OK. But since we are praying, lets pray that I keep some of that little thing God gave me, and my life is not inconvenienced in the least:)
More to come later. Thanks for your prayers.
Anyway, back to my point. It turns out that my thyroid is not large, just the nodule attached to my thyroid is large. So, the next step was to have a biopsy. I did that, and the results we inconclusive. There are some suspect tissues on the nodule that always present as be begnign, but could be cancerous. The only way to tell is to look at it. Some how pretty soon they are going to look at it and let me know.
I decided to blog this before my meeting with the surgeon tomorrow, just to record the events of this journey as they unfold. I am told, and through my research have discovered, that thyroid nodules are very common and most are not cancerous. But if it does happen to be cancerous, it is the kind of cancer you want (if that makes any sense). They will remove all or part of my thyroid, which I hope to learn more about tomorrow.
So, for know, please pray that the nodule is gone. If God chooses to let it be there, then please pray that only 1/2 my thyroid needs to be taken out, and it is not cancerous. Of course, many people are walking around with no thyroid and take medicine everyday....there are worse things. If it needs taken out, it will be OK. But since we are praying, lets pray that I keep some of that little thing God gave me, and my life is not inconvenienced in the least:)
More to come later. Thanks for your prayers.
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