Two weeks ago I went to see my Gynocologist for a yearly check up (more like 4 year check up). Before my "exam" he felt on my neck and said my nodules felt really large and asked if i had ever noticed that my neck was really big, I said No, I thought it came along with gaining weight. So after the exam we meet in his office and he recommended my to a ENT in San Antonio named Thomas Nau to see about getting my neck checked for thyroid. He also wrote me up paper work to get my blood tested for thyroid problems and a few other things. So a few days later I went to the hospital here in Boerne and got my blood work done, and later went to my appointment in San Antonio so see the ENT.
So here I am at the ENT doctors office getting my ears nose and throat checked and he checks my neck, and says he wants me to go get a sonogram done of my neck and we will go from there, so I walk over to the radiologist and get a sonogram done of my neck, man was that uncomfortable haha.
The next week I call the ENT doctor to see if they have my results in because I am impatient. Sure enough they did and they want my husband and I to come in and have a chat with doctor Nau. Thankfully my husband Dwayne was able to come with me since his job is unpredictable and he is on call. So we were able to get a appointment the next day and went in and he basically explained what was going on with me to Dwayne. Dr Nau explained that my thyroid is working fine according to the blood work. But since the nodules on my thyroid are so large that he wouldn't be able to do a "fine needle aspiration biopsy" because since some of the nodules are over 4 cm and he didn't want to take the risk of doing it. So the next thing would be removing the entire thyroid. And hearing the family history of thyroid cancer and tumors he just wants to remove the whole thing.And he said if I do have thyroid cancer it would be the best cancer to have if you were to have cancer because it is slow moving. But the longer I wait to have surgery my neck would only get larger and evidently its big enough already. So now I have a surgery set for December 10th. How exciting, another scar on my neck! BLEH! I'm not really worried about it, I'm just worried about another scar on my flippin neck. So I will keep you updated how the surgery goes :D
ALSO. I have no idea how common thyroid problems were till it up in my life. Now Brooke Burke is going to have surgery too because she has thyroid cancer, and it was interesting to hear her speak about it and hearing the same things that I have said and our doctors have said the same thing.
Below are scars of thyroid removal. so not looking forward to this!
My neck right now.
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