Diagnosis
Summer of 2012 lab results were off and had to be repeated, but there's other medical stuff I am accustomed to being a problem so I don't get wired. After the second result my PCP goes over thyroid http://www.thyroid.org/patient-thyroid-information/ and refers me to the endocrinologist. Endocrinologist does her exams then orders an immediate sonogram. From result of sonogram I must get radioactive uptake and scan All of this is happening in quick order. At the uptake and scan I am no longer cool with this I am feeling this is not ok, it is too much attention being paid to one part of me, something is wrong, definitely wrong.
Ok, cold nodules are found need biopsies so go back to radiology, then wait for pathology results. An early winter evening phone call from the endocrinologist wakes me informing me that I have Papillary Thyroid Cancer http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/thyroid and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0032552/ and need surgery. It feels like I am underwater during the call listening to her and I call folks afterward. She had said less than 10% and now it is definite. This is reality. She has set up the surgeon of the two she recommends the one that could see me the soonest, so this is it. How do you maintain normal with this happening? This isn't fixing pain surgery I don't hurt.
During surgeon's office visit he is on the phone with radiologist querying how something is known so definitively in needle biopsy. Then the surgery slides aren't definitive enough for pathology. The left lobe is remains in place though he wanted to take it. First surgery on Friday, completion thyroidectomy surgery on Thursday, less than a week later.
First surgery I go home that afternoon. Second surgery I spend the night. That one takes the stuffing out of me, and I go on hormone therapy. Headaches, neck hurts, LID diet no hormone, then difficulty getting hormonal therapy levels it is all combining to be one massive low point after two surgeries.
It also began ten months of massive headaches that later were diagnoses as chronic migraines. http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/migraine-headaches From January 2013, it was December's 2013 test where I first heard the words we don't need to adjust your meds the first time. I lived with my folks because I was unwell when suppressed. I was not myself, had constant migraines, couldn't drive, barely could eat. I continued to work with drs to get thyroid med leveled, migraines treated.
Slowly I've made it back to my own place, my cottage, and visit my folks for help with travel with appointments, or resting point with my driving for distance with local appointments. Peaches is my wonderdog, service dog and buddy, encouraging me to get up and keep moving, playing, walking, getting out and about keeping active. This is when faith is active and it's rubber is hitting the road. It's working overtime and at times you can catch the smell of a skid ooops, stop nooooow, about face and life goes on.
Ok, cold nodules are found need biopsies so go back to radiology, then wait for pathology results. An early winter evening phone call from the endocrinologist wakes me informing me that I have Papillary Thyroid Cancer http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/thyroid and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0032552/ and need surgery. It feels like I am underwater during the call listening to her and I call folks afterward. She had said less than 10% and now it is definite. This is reality. She has set up the surgeon of the two she recommends the one that could see me the soonest, so this is it. How do you maintain normal with this happening? This isn't fixing pain surgery I don't hurt.
During surgeon's office visit he is on the phone with radiologist querying how something is known so definitively in needle biopsy. Then the surgery slides aren't definitive enough for pathology. The left lobe is remains in place though he wanted to take it. First surgery on Friday, completion thyroidectomy surgery on Thursday, less than a week later.
First surgery I go home that afternoon. Second surgery I spend the night. That one takes the stuffing out of me, and I go on hormone therapy. Headaches, neck hurts, LID diet no hormone, then difficulty getting hormonal therapy levels it is all combining to be one massive low point after two surgeries.
It also began ten months of massive headaches that later were diagnoses as chronic migraines. http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/migraine-headaches From January 2013, it was December's 2013 test where I first heard the words we don't need to adjust your meds the first time. I lived with my folks because I was unwell when suppressed. I was not myself, had constant migraines, couldn't drive, barely could eat. I continued to work with drs to get thyroid med leveled, migraines treated.
Slowly I've made it back to my own place, my cottage, and visit my folks for help with travel with appointments, or resting point with my driving for distance with local appointments. Peaches is my wonderdog, service dog and buddy, encouraging me to get up and keep moving, playing, walking, getting out and about keeping active. This is when faith is active and it's rubber is hitting the road. It's working overtime and at times you can catch the smell of a skid ooops, stop nooooow, about face and life goes on.