I came back to the hospital for my follow ups a week after I was being discharged. First, I headed to Oncology Center. Without further due, I was brought to Procedure Room and a moment later, dr. Oggy came in to check my wound dressing.
"The wound looks good, do you have any concern we should know about?" he asked.
"Nothing doc, but when I took shower this morning, the wound dressing started to fell off and it feels itchy."
"That's okay. Since the outside wound already healed completely, we're going to leave it like this, without dressing. What do you think?"
"Uh, okay" I then reached my phone and tried to look through my phone's camera.
The wound looked nasty.
As if he could read my mind, "We will give you something, hopefully it could make the scar less visible."
Not so long after, dr. Bayu came in. He brought my pathology report in his hand. To summarize, the result came back as:
- Papillary thyroid cancer from my left thyroid sample, sized 24mm
- No lymphovascular was found
- No metastasis found in lymph gland
- No irregularities found on my right thryoid gland
That sounded like (almost) a good news, right?
However, to make sure the cancer has already gone, I must undergo some procedures that involved nuclear medicine, called radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation.
Since my current hospital did not have RAI ablation facility just yet, dr. Bayu referred me to his colleague, a nuclear medicine physician from Rumah Sakit Kanker Dharmais (RSKD).
For initial meeting, they arranged so I could meet the doctor at my current hospital a week later. Less hassle for me.
So thoughtful, my doctors were.
****
In the evening, I was scheduled to meet my endocrinologist. I ran out of Euthyrox and need him to refill it. We also discussed about my RAI ablation, in which, about three weeks before the treatment I had to stop taking Euthyrox.
I asked what happened if stop taking Euthyrox for few weeks.
He answered, "You will show symptoms of hypothyroidism, like tiredness, depression, and weight gain."
I heard hubby whispered, "Oh, no."
Dang.
"The wound looks good, do you have any concern we should know about?" he asked.
"Nothing doc, but when I took shower this morning, the wound dressing started to fell off and it feels itchy."
"That's okay. Since the outside wound already healed completely, we're going to leave it like this, without dressing. What do you think?"
"Uh, okay" I then reached my phone and tried to look through my phone's camera.
The wound looked nasty.
As if he could read my mind, "We will give you something, hopefully it could make the scar less visible."
Not so long after, dr. Bayu came in. He brought my pathology report in his hand. To summarize, the result came back as:
- Papillary thyroid cancer from my left thyroid sample, sized 24mm
- No lymphovascular was found
- No metastasis found in lymph gland
- No irregularities found on my right thryoid gland
That sounded like (almost) a good news, right?
However, to make sure the cancer has already gone, I must undergo some procedures that involved nuclear medicine, called radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation.
Since my current hospital did not have RAI ablation facility just yet, dr. Bayu referred me to his colleague, a nuclear medicine physician from Rumah Sakit Kanker Dharmais (RSKD).
For initial meeting, they arranged so I could meet the doctor at my current hospital a week later. Less hassle for me.
So thoughtful, my doctors were.
****
In the evening, I was scheduled to meet my endocrinologist. I ran out of Euthyrox and need him to refill it. We also discussed about my RAI ablation, in which, about three weeks before the treatment I had to stop taking Euthyrox.
I asked what happened if stop taking Euthyrox for few weeks.
He answered, "You will show symptoms of hypothyroidism, like tiredness, depression, and weight gain."
I heard hubby whispered, "Oh, no."
Dang.
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