“Sometimes you have to hurt to heal”

A very dear friend, albeit virtual as of today, just said that to me and she couldn’t be more spot on.  Technology, and social media, when used for good can be just amazing!  I am thankful.

So, I am here today on the blog to write about an experience I just had getting my thyroid ultrasound.  (You know, it’s just bloody crazy that I had thyroid cancer and 2 surgeries and we are *still talking about my thyroid (bed) issues!)

Usually the staff at my hospital, yes most of the staff, know me on a first name basis.  (Not kidding.)  But this technician was new and I hadn’t ever met her before.  She brings me in to the room, tells me the deal (which I have memorized) and begins the exam.  She says to me, “So this is the first follow up you’ve had on your thyroid since 2010, right?”

I almost spit up.

I told her this is not my first rodeo and this specific issue alone (the lone random tissue that we can’t seem to find out what it is) I have been dealing with since October 2018.  She hemmed and hawed, and said something like, “Well, if you’re concerned about it we can go check on the computer.”  I told her that she probably *should go check it out because it does not make sense that all of a sudden the computer/my chart has 9 years of my records missing.

Come to find out, the hospital renamed the test from “Thyroid Ultrasound” to “US Thyroid” or some such nonsense, and she didn’t bother to scroll ALL THE WAY DOWN to the end of my chart.

(In April of this year was my last u/s and there was some “issue” in a lymph node, they thought, and even I know you compare to the most previous scan for comparison.  Can you freaking imagine if she compared today’s to 2010 and then on Thursday my doctor tells me, “Oh Heather, there’s a problem.”

I would have lost my ever-loving mind, I tell you.

I am thankful.  I am grateful.  I am thankful and grateful she randomly mentioned about the “follow up since 2010” comment.  Oh boy, I am thankful.

Yes I know I must be responsible for my own health care, but I sure wish I could trust some of these people in this field.