Last Wednesday I went in to have the biopsy done on my thyroid. For the first time in ages my blood pressure registered normal! Probably because I was stressed out and it was elevated from it's regular place. LOL! The nurse explains the procedure and gave me a choice of a spray that they would use on my neck to help numb it for the needles or a shot of lydocane. She said if I was freaked out about it I should choose the shot. I told her I thought the spray would be fine. I get blood drawn on the regular basis. Needles aren't too scary to me. She finished my preliminary stuff and took me to the procedure room. She returned moments later to tell me that the nodule he wants to check is deep and that I should have lydocane. Yeah.....Now I'm thinking that's a good idea.
The doc came in and shook my hand and turned to my husband who was wearing a UCLA sweatshirt. Right away they start talking football and chatting up a storm. All the while I'm laying there with my head tipped back exposing my neck for a pin cushion. CCB said he was glad the doc did that because it put him at ease. UH....I'm the one who needed to be put at ease!
They get started with the procedure and get the ultrasound going so he can see where he's poking. He points out these two quivering dark spots and tells me that is my artery, that is what keeps you alive he says.....I didn't need that tidbit...He was getting ready to skewer me and I didn't want to know how close he was to my artery! You know what I mean?!
The lydocane shot hurt. I don't know that it was so much the shot as it was WHERE it was going in. He waited a few minutes swirled the ultrasound around me neck some more then got to poking. It was SO weird. It hurt not extreme but it hurt. Then there was this pinchy feeling near my ear. The nurse explained that was because of all the nerves in my neck. He poked once,twice and then the much awaited third time. THEN he decides he didn't get enough cells on the third poke and that he needs to do it again, only with a larger needle. UGH. Didn't like that fourth poke but hopefully it keeps me from having to do this again.
Now I wait. They said the results should be back in about a week. And that if I don't hear from them by next Friday to call. He also asked me to come back the following morning to have more blood tests done. One was cortisol test and the others weren't so easy to decipher from the lab orders.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate waiting? Even though I feel confident that I don't have cancer, this waiting gives me time to mull over all the possibilities. I don't really like that. *SIGH*
4 comments:
Oh bless your heart. You are in my prayers and I cannot wait for you to share the good news so you can get back to your normal life.
About CCB and the doctor -- I can totally relate. If I am having some procedure done and the medical person served in the military, Ron and the individual begin sharing war stories and I might as well be a knot on a log.
As the wise Tom Petty once said, "the waiting is the hardest part"...and I concur! Ugghhh, no one likes waiting, especially not for test results. I"m so sorry you have to wait and more importantly that you had to be poked and prodded again. I can't wait until this is all over! You're not a pin cushion for goodness sakes ;O)
Thinking about you OGO and sending the best news and prayers your way!!
thinking about you and hoping those waiting days fly by
I'm sure you will come back clean...And waiting is that hardest part....I've been there, done that..
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