I went back to the endocrinologist's. She was a little impatient with me this time. Problem is, when I try to ask about anything, I get a speech about how it isn't cancer, how it isn't going to be cancer, how this is "no big deal" and so on.
Can a former cancer patient ask about their thyroid without jumping to conclusions? If I had never had cancer, I might have been given some information. But given my status, I'm reduced to being told that it's not cancer-related and I don't get to know any more than that.
I did manage to find out that this might be the leftover from a previous infection. I mentioned the H1N1 and otherwise, I have no interesting medical adventures to report.
She's not convinced that I'll even need 6 month screenings, something that wouldn't have bothered me anyway. She said if the numbers are stable, we can go to yearly. I made an apt. for the end of January and already have the Rx for Dr. Burned.
I didn't recount the Jealous Radiologist story. I told the GP about it and she rolled her eyes. "Any radiologist can do a thyroid scan!" I'm so not going to push this. I'm just doing what my endocrinologist wants and I can almost as easily go to Dr. Burned.
I also went to see my GP for my heel. It kind of hurts. I wanted to hear about some kind of cure but I got an explanation (she she actually explains things) that it's another age-related quirk. Sometimes a sliver of bone escapes. I can get inserts for my shoe. I said, no, I want some aggressive, invasive procedure that will get rid of it for good. She laughed and said, no luck!
She also isn't too supportive of the MRI. This is a change of heart. This could be a problem with the French Social Security system. But she did give me a Rx for the heel (that has no real cure) with a comment that now I can go back to Dr. N. and talk about my MRI!
I haven't had the courage to do that yet. I drive by there everyday and I'm so sure they're sick of me by now!
Can a former cancer patient ask about their thyroid without jumping to conclusions? If I had never had cancer, I might have been given some information. But given my status, I'm reduced to being told that it's not cancer-related and I don't get to know any more than that.
I did manage to find out that this might be the leftover from a previous infection. I mentioned the H1N1 and otherwise, I have no interesting medical adventures to report.
She's not convinced that I'll even need 6 month screenings, something that wouldn't have bothered me anyway. She said if the numbers are stable, we can go to yearly. I made an apt. for the end of January and already have the Rx for Dr. Burned.
I didn't recount the Jealous Radiologist story. I told the GP about it and she rolled her eyes. "Any radiologist can do a thyroid scan!" I'm so not going to push this. I'm just doing what my endocrinologist wants and I can almost as easily go to Dr. Burned.
I also went to see my GP for my heel. It kind of hurts. I wanted to hear about some kind of cure but I got an explanation (she she actually explains things) that it's another age-related quirk. Sometimes a sliver of bone escapes. I can get inserts for my shoe. I said, no, I want some aggressive, invasive procedure that will get rid of it for good. She laughed and said, no luck!
She also isn't too supportive of the MRI. This is a change of heart. This could be a problem with the French Social Security system. But she did give me a Rx for the heel (that has no real cure) with a comment that now I can go back to Dr. N. and talk about my MRI!
I haven't had the courage to do that yet. I drive by there everyday and I'm so sure they're sick of me by now!
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