T-Cancer

I just want people to know about the things that are currently happening in my life. In January I went into the doctor's office thinking I had strep throat or something because I hadn't been able to recover from a cold. While I was visiting with the doctor she noticed my neck was swollen and so she felt it and realized that my thyroid was enlarged, she suggested that we do blood work to see what was going on.

The results on it came back as to be in the normal range, so we decided to press on to do an ultrasound of the thyroid because SOMETHING was going on. When we received those results there were two hard nodules and one cyst, all in different locations. According to statistics this should not be concerning. My doctor had talked with another doctor and they suggested we check back in on them in six months. As I got off the phone I just felt sick inside and knew I needed to see someone else for a second opinion. As I thought that my doctor had called me back and told me I should do that too. She told me that I should go to an ENT (Ears, Nose, Throat) Specialist.

I went to one and he decided I needed to get the two harder nodules biopsied. I got both hard nodules biopsied one located on the right lobe of the thyroid and the other on the left lobe of the thyroid. Both resulted in the news of being malignant (cancer). This is a rare find for my age and having multiple nodules on the thyroid. Now I have been diagnosed with Papillary Thyroid Cancer.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

New Year's Eve 2014... Found a new doctor!

I went to my doctor appointment with this new doctor and I had to wait 45 minutes in the patient's room for him to come in. I was getting really frustrated and thought to myself "if this doctor is going to take so long I might as well leave." Well, just after I had that thought he came in and we did our introductions. He said he was reading through all my previous treatments and notes from the doctors and had all the facts. Very impressive. The last doctor I went to didn't have this same feeling. I felt like he was truly there to help me. I felt like this is the doctor I needed. He had his facts and let me know about the thyroid antibodies and how they gradually decrease and usually take about 5 years to clear out. I had no idea that that was the case... my last doctor told me that I was good to go and didn't really inform me that we were looking at that number. She had only mentioned that we were watching the TSH, T4 and T3 numbers. He explained to me that all the symptoms could be related but not always. He was very informative and helped me understand my symptoms and what I was looking for. During this visit he felt like we needed to do an Ultrasound to see where the microscopic cells where at. He also explained that the way my previous doctor was doing things were according to the 1980s procedures. SERIOUSLY! I didn't really need to go through all that but it helped him know exactly what we did not need to do again. I guess that's a good thing!

He did the ultrasound and found a growth and three enlarged lymph nodes that he instructed we would need to biopsy. Well, that was something to take in.... I took a deep breath and accept that we would go in for another FNA (Fine Needle Aspiration). NOT what I wanted to hear, but glad to hear it wasn't all in my head as people were telling me. The doctor told me that he would be gentle. haha :) I thought that was funny because how could you be gentle sticking needles in someone's throat? Well, hears to another adventure!

Here we go! Happy New Year to ME!


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