So tomorrow's the big day. I have so many mixed emotions right now. On one hand, I'm glad that the potentially cancerous cells will be removed. On the other hand, Keith read to me about some people who had the same surgery but had some bad experiences afterwards. I know that people will post the bad before (and more frequently) they post the positive, but it's hard not wondering about the "what ifs".
I had so many unanswered questions so I called my ENT's office and spoke with an RN. After a ten minute conversation, I think I'm at ease that I made the right decision. Besides, who would argue with three different doctors telling them the same conclusion? Right? I just had to be at ease with it.
My biggest concern was that if this nodule is as aggressive as they suspect it is, how can I have had it for the last 15 years and not have known it. The "rare and aggressive cancer" could not be the cause of my thyroid being over active for so long that it burned my thyroid out. The RN said that it is possible that I've had the nodule for a while but that it may just now be turning from benign to malignant and we happened to catch it before it got to that point.
I'm still going to have my doctors make sure there isn't anything else going on with me after I am stablized. I don't want to be nieve enough to think there couldn't be something else going on that we haven't discovered yet.
For now, I'm trying to stay focused on the positive.
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