Who Needs a Thyroid?

Not me? I haven't got one, and it's best that I have none. For me, thryroid tissue = cancer cells, or it could.

About a month ago I got a letter from my endocrinologist to come in for an appointment. This wouldn't be strange at all, expect the last time I saw my endocrinologist, he said come back in one or two year. Oh, and we had a super awkward 'pregnancy talk'. Anyway, the appointment was just after I did blood work (which I do every 3 months, mostly to check my Synthroid, or synthetic thyroid hormone), so obviously something was up. Nothing too major, or at least as of yet. My blood work showed indication of thyroid tissue (by presence of hormone, although I don't remember which one), so now I have to do a full body scan. I've done three in the past - two with Thyrogen, one without. Thyrogen is a very expensive (about $1800) drug that simulates thyroid stimulating hormone, which means I don't have to build it up naturally. To build it up naturally, I have to go off my Synthroid, and I start feeling like shit after about 3 days. I had to do one scan this way. to do the scan, I have to go off for a month, which translates to 2 months of sick. I'm so stoked that I don't have to do that again! Go Thyrogen. It's very expensive because it's new. I was approved about 2 years after I was diagnosed.

Anyway, enough blither: I need to go get scanned again, just a quick $1800 of someone else's money, two stabs in the ass, and an hour long nap in a machine, and we'll see.

Off to Saskatoon with Bronco this weekend! More pictures of 24 hrs to follow.