Hi Colleen,
Thank you for reaching out to me for an update on the removal of my thyroid. I was truly so nervous about getting this done! They have been watching two nodules for me for six or seven years. I am with the Boston hospitals, which are wonderful. Over the last few years, the nodules have grown. They were on the right side of my thyroid. There was a very tiny one on the left side of the thyroid, but it was too small to biopsy. I had a biopsy of the two nodules on the right in 2021. They had grown but were fine. I had an ultrasound in Feb and the test showed that they had grown and changed, so I needed another biopsy. The results came back as cancer on the nodules. My endocrinologist, along with the dr who did the biopsy, sent me to a wonderful surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was kind, caring, and highly regarded for his expertise in this type of surgery. He assured me that I would do “great”! He was right! I recovered very quickly from the removal of my thyroid. He called my husband after the surgery and told him that I had made the right decision to have the entire thyroid removed because there were additional nodules present that the ultrasound had not seen. He had given me a choice to remove half of the thyroid or the entire thyroid. Because there was an additional nodule starting to grow on the left side, I made the decision to remove it all. I have to say that after two days, I felt great! I am feeling like myself now, taking the one small thyroid pill every morning, and I have my energy back. I am so grateful that this cancer was discovered before it spread to the lymph nodes. My recovery was great and I credit my surgeon for a job well done!