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I went for the ultrasound and biopsy this morning.  The ultrasound revealed a lipoma on my thyroid.  The Doctor told me they are usually harmless but they took biopsies.  I had a total of 4 shots into the neck.  They use a small needle about the size of an acupuncture needle but they aspirate with it and there is a strange sensation of tissue being sucked out of your neck.  Kind of felt like I was in a Dracula movie on the receiving end of one of his bites.  Only 1 of the 4 shots was really painful, the others were pricks.

 

Biopsy results back in a week.  They told me in the worst case scenario if it's a papillary cancer Yale has the best group of thyroid surgeons in the world, and they would be able to get it in one surgery and probably remove it, no ongoing radiation or chemo being needed.

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