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So I bit the bullet and made a surgery appt. today. I will have my thyroid removed on June 4. I have been seeing a doctor since Sept. 2006 and have been trying to avoid dealing with it since then. Medication without surgery could at some point deplete my white blood cell count. I tried it for a month but when my second opinion doctor heard I was on it, he proceeded to reiterate the side effects and scared me enough to stop taking it. The surgeon today said that he estimates that it is 10X the normal size. Man, imagine how much weight I will lose when it is removed. Just kidding. I can dream can't I. The problem with my thyroid is that it is slightly 'overactive', so I should be skinny. Go figure. I have always thought I was a skinny person trapped in a fat body.

I will only be in the hospital for one night. The bad things that 'could' happen are they could damage the vocal nerves and I could have a Demi Moore voice and they might not be able to salvage the glands that make calcium or something like that. I will have a Frankenstein scare about 4 inches. Sadly, that is what I am concerned about because I don't heal well. I will have to invest in some mederma.

So it is done and I am going through with it. I will continue to need all of your encouragement as I am freaking out about the general anesthesia the most. I have never been put under and with kids, it is heavily on my mind.