Thyroid update

Just got the every-6-months thyroid ultrasound done today.  

While I like the tech this time better than the idiot newbie who did the last one, I dunno how good it's gonna be.  She's apparently been a part of the medical machine too long.  Seriously dislikes doctors....all doctors.  Can't say I blame her there, really.  Still, with that kind of job disatisfaction, is she really doing the best job for her patients that she can?

Will put a call in for a copy of the u/s and results today and pick them up tomorrow.  Probably heading to biopsy #4.

Then again, if I finally decide to bite the bullet and get my throat slit, maybe I can avoid that.  No point going through additional pain if I don't have to.

Once I get the u/s results, will be making a call down to Philly to an Endo down there for a referral to a surgeon.  I'm tired of fiddling around with this thing.

If it's benign, at least it'll be over.  If it's cancer, then the blasted thing will be out of me.  The thing that really worries me isn't the possiblity of cancer itself.  Rather, if it turns out to be cancer, that'll mean a round of radiation which will no doubt irritate the bejeebers out of my lyme and causing a worsening of symptoms.

Catch-22.

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While I was sitting in the waiting room with nothing else to do but listen to the clucking of "The View" on the telly, I decided to think about just how many imaging tests I've had in the last 14 months.

1 mammogram
3 rounds of xrays (for when I broke my toe in July)
9 ultrasounds (4 thyroid, 2 thyroid pre-biopsy, 1 pelvic, 1 trans vag, 1 abdominal)
2 CT scans (1 head/neck, 1 abdominal)
1 Hida scan (gallbladder function)
1 MRI (brain)

That's one a month with 3 to spare!  Good grief!