I did have the biopsy yesterday. My radiologist friend from Staten Island snuck me in with her team. She really worked me over, too--five samples on the right 0.5 mm nodule, 7 on the 2cm left lower lobe nodule. I'm sore as crap today, but I'm glad she wanted to leave no area unsampled.

Left one looked a little suspicious, but while they were ultrasounding I asked her to check all the area lymph nodes, and not a one of those looked suspicious, which is a good thing.

We hope to at least have some preliminary results in another two days--but I want to have my ducks in a row, so I already have a surgical consultation set up for Tuesday the 12th at Columbia Presbyterian Thyroid Center (the Columbia/Cornell medical system knows me well, lol). If it turns out I don't need it, I can always cancel.

Wow Glenn:

You are better than the specialists in your knowledge of your body and what needs to be done.

Good for you.

Here's a hug.

Hope to see you at the meeting.

I do hope we get to attend. Alan has had this fever for 5 days. This morning was the first morning it was not up. And we see Dr. Fred today.

So you take care of yourself.

Love ya

Melody

Good news for the most part.

Pathology report came back. (My radiology friend must have sat on the pathologist's head.)

The big left side nodule has no cellular atypia and a lot of colloid. Looks for all the world like a colloid adenoma, a benign lump often found in multinodular goiter, which was a distinct possibility raised in the report.

The right nodule (the 0.5cm one) did not have enough cellular aspirates to be diagnostic--mostly liquid came out of it (possibly considerable cystic component)--despite my radiologists continued poking. Report says a repeat FNA would be a good idea, but my friend says just monitor for now--nodule is small, had no characteristics making it suspicious for malignancy on her own ultrasound examination. We can always go in and do the biopsy again if it grows, but she strongly suspects it's another goiterous lump.

At least I get to celebrate my wife's 50th birthday now. (She, of course, had total thyroidectomy for micropapillary carcinoma in 2008, which is part of why this made me so crazy--fortunately her markers have been clean since.)

Good news! Congratulations!

Are they going to put you on hormone? My goiter went down to normal on low dose levothyroxine.

Glen,

Tell me again why you never went to medical school???

You would have made a FINE physician.

Glad to hear the good news.

Hope to see you at the meeting next week.

Oh, Alan went to the doctor yesterday. He sweated his fever. It went to 98 and has stayed there since. They took blood, we'll know more when the results come back.

So I do hope we all can go to the next meeting of the PN Support group.

Take care, and Happy Birthday to the wifey!!!!

Good news.....so glad.

excellant news Glenn. Im glad that it worked out well for you.

Hey, Glenn...

I just posted on my vacation thread about the new development in our house with our cat and her thyroid nodule!

I've been looking this up on the web, and found this link on one vet site:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es0708159

I thought you might find it interesting?

We had a cat 30 yrs ago develop thyroid cancer. Then NONE of our others have done so. One died at 24 and the other at 20 this past winter of other causes. Now our 10yr old is having this problem. (she is quite the outdoor cat of all of them).

See ya in Sept.

I never in all my life thought a cat could live to the age of 24. My friend has one dog (age 14) and two cats (???)

Interesting!!

Mel