Personal post!

I haven't been real big on putting up personal stuff on here, unless you count the 142,000 posts about one of our animals, but I thought I'd share a little medical stuff that I've been going through lately just to see if we can all get a good laugh out of it, or something.

So I've had hypothyroidism for a while now, and it seems as though now my thyroid gland has decided to ENLARGE itself (2nd level mage spell, I believe) to the point that my endocrinologist ordered an ultrasound on it. Turns out I have MULTI-NODULAR GOITER, which, besides sounding like I contracted it in 1845 along with consumption and the vapors, means that nodules have formed on my thyroid gland as well, the two largest of which they decided they wanted to biopsy!

Now, I don't know about you, but nothing puts a shine on my weekend like hearing the word "biopsy"! Luckily for me, my doctor said that the nodules in this type of situation are almost never cancerous, and even if they were, the treatment success rate would be extremely high, so there's almost no chance that this will affect me in any meaningful way, except for the fact that I'll be writing posts for a while going forward from debtor's prison, due to the huge bill even AFTER my insurance. I hope they have Macs in debtor's prison!

Anyway, yesterday I got poked in the neck a bunch of times with a really thin needle, and today I'm back at work, busting my hump for the almight dolla. Good times, good times. I'll keep everyone updated once I hear back about the results, of course, and feel free to post well wishes, homeopathic goiter remedies, tales from your OWN successful bouts with cancer (Randy, Lance Armstrong), or general derision at the fact that I've obviously already reached the age where I'm having "procedures" every couple of months. If I can just keep that daggum lumbago from acting up...