I do gym everyday, eat well, active all the time but still cripple with genetic problems.
I have recently gone under a surgery to remove my thyroid. I never had surgery before and never even fainted once. I am still with wound covers. I will see the doctor on Monday to remove them and be free. I was expecting more outage but I am functional again quickly. I even had my deck oiled today.
Thyroidectomy problems are found with my high blood pressure problems. I was already going to a specialist for this and periodically checking everything. One of those checks was the PTH hormone test. When it was first high, doctor said we will look into it if the second one comes as high. The second one was high as well and I booked some more tests; one nuclear scan and another Thyroid ultrasound. Nuclear Scan was cool, you get a syringe full of radiative substance and after 10 minutes go into the big machine. After the tests you glow in the dark for a while. :-). On the Thyroid ultrasound they have found this little tumour on it.It was an accidental find cause they were not looking for it. It was 7mm big and visible on the ultrasound screen. Doctor there recommended a fine needle aspiration and my first question was is local anaesthesia available. Doctor smiled and said there is nothing to worry. FNA didn't went well, it must be hard to stick needles to something that is 7mm big by looking through the ultrasound screen. Doctor could not get anything and there was no result. 3 months later I have booked another one.
Second tests were almost successful and it came up as "highly suspicious papillary micro-carcinoma". Dates booked for the surgery and it was done on 17th of April. Surgery took about 4 hours because a "frozen section" was necessary. This is a test done when I am sleeping to understand the nature of the tumour. It came up as cancer and I lost both sides of Thyroid. Surgery wen well and there is no harm done to my vocal chords. It also healed really quickly. Next day I have started to eat and Sunday afternoon I was at home.
Second part of the treatment is the radio iodine. I need to drink some more radiative liquid and sit in lead covered room for 2 days. When your radiation levels are 5% they sent you home advising not to touch your wife or kids and flush the toilet twice for about 3 weeks. In the mean time remaining cancer cells attract iodine and explode themselves.
Missing thyroid may make tiredness but I don't feel much at the moment. I even cleaned and re-oiled my deck. I am thinking to go back to work on Tuesday after I see the doctor on Monday and start gym again. See how it goes.
PS: You can call me "GY V1 Patch1" from now on.
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