Thank you all for the words of support. It means so much to me.
So, I spoke to my endocrinologist's nurse this morning because I was confused about a couple of things...
1) I thought no metastasis? Well turns out I was completely wrong about the purpose of this blood test. I thought they would be able to detect the possible spread to other areas, but what they were really doing here was measuring the level of natural thyroid hormone...if it was high, that would be a good indication that my thyroid cancer was back, but it actually provided 0 information about cancer in other areas. My doctor did a very poor job of explaining this to me initially, and I have been trying to avoid consulting Dr. Internet.
2) Why such a long wait? They told me yesterday it would be 5-10 days just to schedule the biopsy, and I thought this communicated a lack of urgency...5-10 days to schedule a little needle shooting in and out of your neck a few times? Turns out this is an excisional biopsy, as in they are taking out one or more nodes for study, so general anasthesia and surgery.
Anyway, so that's it for cancer talk from me for a few weeks, since that's how long it's going to be before I know anything else. I'll keep you guys posted.
Number one, you got this.
Number two, PM me your most desired omni available on IST and your mailing address.
Number three, see number one.
Wow, I don't even know what to say. This is incredibly generous of you, tc. I'm very grateful.
