I figure if I keep saying this out loud, in text, under my breath, to God, whatever, that I will somehow magically NOT be scared anymore. But unfortunately, I know I'm still going to be scared. It's a NEEDLE. No wait, it's TWO NEEDLES. In my neck. S C A R Y ! ! ! !
The short version of this story is that back in late March, I was really really sick with some flu or strep or something of that nature, and I remember finding a small lump on my neck while I was out visiting my sister in Vegas the first week of April. I remember thinking it was a swollen gland and that it would go away. But it didn't. So I went to my doctor about 4 weeks ago, and he thought it might be a branchial cleft cyst, which, according to Wikipedia is, "an oval, moderately movable cystic mass that develops under the skin in the neck between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the pharynx." Not a big deal. He suggested I have a CT scan done to confirm, which I did. I found out last week that the mass is NOT a branchial cleft cyst, nor is it a swollen gland or lymph node, but it is a mass the size of a golf ball attached to my thyroid. So I am going in for a biopsy tomorrow morning... hence my TWO NEEDLE PHOBIA! One to numb my neck and one to extract cells from this mass. I'm only just a little scared. Actually to be honest, I'm more scared of the needles at this point than this thing actually being cancerous. Either way, it has to come out, and either way I can live without a thyroid. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that it's not cancerous, and if it is, that it's only in the thyroid... because there has been a lot of cancer in my family, and I'm not about to be a casualty!
Wish me luck!
PS, The boys are doing very well and I am happy to report that the pink eye and strep that have also paralyzed the Fleming household this month have *almost* left the building.
Jeez. Sending positive thoughts your way.
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Yes, I agree- sending positive thoughts. Keep us updated!
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