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.
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