Third time's the charm for a Thyroid biopsy?

Huh. My endocrinologist just called. This is how that phone conversation went: Dr: “Hello, I wanted to check and see how you are doing today.” Me: “Um, I’m fine. I think that things are going well with the Synthroid.” Dr: “That’s good. You had two biopsies, right?” Me: “Um…yes…” Dr: “And we told you that [...]

So, it's basically April already?

Holy crap – the first quarter of the year is over already! Tomorrow is April. Oh, and it might will probably snow – wtf. Work is going well – I’m finally feeling confident in my ability to do the job and I like my coworkers. It’s still weird working for a big company and not [...]

Nondiagnostic Thyroid Nodule

Nondiagnostic A nondiagnostic fine needle aspiration biopsy results when there are not enough thyroid cells to make a definite diagnosis. A nondiagnostic diagnosis occurs about 10% of the time and can sometimes be due to a physician’s inexperience with the biopsy technique. However, sometimes thyroid nodules can be filled with blood, hard material called calcium [...]

The Waiting is the Hardest Part

I’m sitting here at work feeling frozen.  I feel like I need to tell myself to breathe in and out and I certainly can’t concentrate on any of (the massive amount of) work I need to do.  The biopsy on the cyst on my thyroid was done a week ago today.  They told me then [...]

Good Riddance 2010!

New Year’s is just around the corner and I couldn’t be happier to put 2010 behind me!  Sure, there were some good things that happened this year (Alex got on the Fire Dept and I got a new job), but mostly, for me, this year sucked.  I thought that a visual aid might assist in [...]

Highs and Lows

So it seems like with every little bit of good news, we get bad news these days.  I’m all for balance in the universe, but, frankly, I’d rather have a bit more in the happy stuff column for a while. Our cooktop broke, randomly, in the summer (bad).  We really don’t like cooking with electric, [...]

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