Heh heh heh... I had not seen one of those in so many years, I thought I was hearing things when she was typing...

The other thing that was a little strange-For my exam, I was SITTING UP on the end of the table, fully dressed, even shoes and socks, he made his girl come in and stand there, like when you go to the ObGyn... I thought that was odd, considering the thyroid is neck level and you don't have to take off your top.

Anyway, I am happy with my old surgeon taking over. I was even able to get an Endocrinologist appointment with someone he knows, a little earlier than the 22nd...

Cathie

I'M SO HAPPY SOMEBODY REMEMBERS SELECTRIC TYPEWRITERS.

The funny thing is I am a fast typist (that's why I go on the message boards and my husband uses two fingers to do ANYTHING).

I never got timed while using an electric typewriter (the ones before the selectric). Then when I got the selectric, boy did I whiz through reports.

THEN, my company sent me to IBM computer school (this was about 19 years ago) when my company fot the first desk top computer with the dot matrix printer.

You should have seen what happened when someone saw me type on this keyboard. I never thought I could go faster on anything than a selectric but this first keyboard really made me fly.

One day I was typing some big report and I must have been typing really fast when my boss came out of the office, looked at me and said "what the heck are you, some kind of superman??" and we laughed.

Then all was quiet. And I continued typing and all of a sudden, there was a hush and a whole burst of applause and I turned around and there were the other staff members applauding me. I never laughed so hard in my life.

Then I entered a typing contest in Kings Plaza Mall and I won. They clocked me (on a selectric by the way), they didn't have a computer for this typing contest. I was clocked at 145 words a minute. That also got me carpal tunnel syndrome by the way.

I won $50.00 and they kept calling my office asking me if I wanted this job or that job. My boss got so annoyed the next time the phone rang he grabbed it and said "she doesn't want your job".

Jeez, I remember those days.

lol

Melody

Gee Mel, you were on your way to being a great court reporter... On that funny little machine they use, or used to use, I think about 250 was what you had to be up to speedwise to graduate from their school here...

Cathie

Cathie--

What's up with your thyroid? Are you having surgery? Is it recommended?

I've lost the thread of this.

of one hoot of a bummer? I am seeing endo soon for another 'assessment'... probably means MORE BLOOD DRAWN! ...

Melody, I always thot that my typing 45 wpm mostly #'s super accurate was good! Your #'s Yikes?!?

Oooh I looved those selectrics! and you could change the fonts? Especially the correct-tape ones..they were heaven! Then Word Processors turned execs into secretaries...great equalizer in one way,, lots the 'other person' editing feature tho...sigh..

As for thyroid stuff, I'm learning far more about that all than any human besides a doc should have to know...on top of all the other 'stuff'! It's [for want of any other word] HINKY? I don't know whether to post goodies here or under the auto-site... It's got lots of cross-over?

Hugs for the interim to YOU! Hang in there -we'll all get to where we are supposed to be, at some time I surely hope! May it be soon? Hugs-plus -j

I may already have answered this in email, but the vote for the thyroid surgery is now 2 for and 1 against... Unfortunately, the one against happens to be the surgeon... Sooo, I can't say what is going to happen yet...

I don't know why they can't just do a coarse biopsy, but he said this is not the way they do things... ???

Meanwhile, I guess I am waiting around a few months to see if there is a change... I cannot imagine regulating thyroid replacement hormone along with steroids in conjunction with a flareup straight out of hell...

Cathie

Please Endocrinologist FIRST don't depend on nitwits making the,
appointments.Get your family Dr.the records have them faxed..There is no
reason for this nonsence.Cry your way to the Endocrinolist.He will explain
your options if surgerg is necessary,do the what if i were your Mom bit!!

My husband had thyroid surgery,my 12 yr.son had Thyroid cancer that's rare
do you have Anderson near you??If nothing else please have them faxed
by your foot Dr. if you have to..I don't understand the hold up,Unless it's
lung Dr. being foolish.I don't want to scare you but everything all of your
questions need to be adressed by aEndocrinologist now.Wow thes is down
right wrong.My son is 29 now.It's not so bad if you can get there

You can do this!!! Sue

You know when you sit and think about the past, all the memories come flashing back to you. I was in class in highschool and I had told the teacher that my mom was having a thyroid operation. Over the loudspeaker the principal said "Let's all pray for Melody's mother, she's having an operation".

I remember visiting my mom and she had this scar across her neck. So my mother had a thyroid problem.

Next, my father had this lump on his neck (I was teenager). He would wear scarfs all the time so no one would find out about it. My mom's friend hugged him one day and exclaimed "my god, what is that think on your neck". My mother got mad at my fathe for not telling her,took him to a doctor, and he had a GOITER. It was removed. He also had a big fatty tumor on the side of his body (I was very young). It was removed. He also had a small benign thing on the back of his leg, IT WAS REMOVED!!!

So now my mom had a non-malignant thing in her thyroid removed. My father had a goiter and several non malignant growths on his body removed.

Now let's get to me. I had a fibroadenoma removed from my breast 19 years ago, and I had a lipoma removed from my knee over 15 years ago.

Now let's get to my son. Last year (he lives in California), his doctor ran a thyroid screening and found he had certain numbers that were not normal and now he is on Armour (at least that's what I remember he told me he was on).

So this thyroid thing skipped over me and went to my son?????

wow!!

Melody

is because of my other health issues, which include a nasty Mixed Connective Tissue Disease and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy. Supposedly not as severe as Lupus, this MCTD never gives me a real break, I fight continual flareups with even minimal stress or procedures...

A 5 1/2 hour laprascopic renal artery aneurysm repair was easy; the flareup caused from the procedure was pure hell...

Two Fine Needle Aspirations have not succeeded in determining if this is cancer or not. Normally, I suppose they would spot this in a CT or Ultrasound and then watch for growth changes, but with a history of radium exposure as a child, this changes the odds somewhat...

My surgeon is extremely concerned over how I would do with this surgery. I saw one other surgeon, but he evidently was not trained to read more than one radiology report at a time and missed the fact there are nodules in both thyroid lobes... I mean, it is getting pretty bad when the patient has to point out what is clear in both reports... He was MOST offended when I tried to point this out...

Cathie

Having gone thru reading lots of BC boards and the whole 'aspiration' process.. Well, I have to guess it seems sort of a hit-or-miss process?

I admit, I was very lucky in that I'd a fam. history of cancers and first off after the sonos, mammos, mri's etc, I got a 'Pet Scan withlittle hassle. They called me in advance, 'getting extra 'history'' and asked if I needed financial assistance. Luckily I'd already met that elusive 'catastrophic deduction' by that point. BTW the Hashi's is confirmed...all is being treated right there, at least for me? [as one wise doc would say...THAT's off the list...or at least checked off?]

For you tho...Gee whizz! I'd call and ask the docs straight out...what the WHO's GOING ON??? Can you all come to some sort of concensus about what to do or not to do? That is the question[s]?

I'll PM you about surgery stuff I found effective.

Till later, good person - !!!! - j