Swelling in my neck

Sep 27, 2012

On Monday, the swelling in my neck had gotten worse. It's roughly the size of a small orange and stretches from the right side of my neck, across the front of my throat, and slightly over the left side. I went to my friend's house and got her to feel it. Her mom is a nurse so she got her mom to feel it. Her mom got a serious look on her face and said, "Please go be seen." She was about to go into work and she said she'd text Mary to let her know a good time for me to go to the Emergency Department so I wouldn't have to wait long.

Josh and I headed to the ED at 8PM. When the nurse (Shauna) came in and felt my neck, she too got a serious look on her face. She felt my entire neck and down onto my chest. She said that NONE of my lymph nodes are swollen. This large thing in my neck is actually my thyroid.

She and the doctor kept asking me a lot of the same questions over and over. They seemed confused that I have no symptoms other than the swelling. They ordered an EKG to make sure things were okay with my heart, since when the initial swelling happened, I had a "tightness" in my neck. The EKG came back fine.

They ordered an ultrasound of my neck. Since it was after hours, they set an appointment for me to go back the next morning to have the ultrasound done. Tuesday morning, I headed back to the hospital and Heather did my ultrasound. She was very happy and the mood was light until she started looking at the swelling with the ultrasound machine. She got very quiet. I figured she was just concentrating so I closed my eyes and relaxed.

After she was done, she left the room for a few minutes. When she came back, she looked up the notes from Shauna and Dr. West from my ED visit. Heather then said that I needed to make an appointment with Dr. Vigg immediately. I headed across the street to Dr. Vigg's office after I left the hospital.

When I got to his office, the receptionist was as rude as she usually is. She told me to take a seat and she'd talk to Mechandy about it and have Mechandy call the hospital. About 10 minutes later, the receptionist called me back up to her desk and she was really nice this time. She said that as soon as Radiology sent over my results, they'd call me. If they hadn't called by Thursday, to call them.

I called Dr. Vigg's office because they close at 1 today. Mechandy called me back at 1 saying they hadn't received the results. I called Radiology at the hospital and the woman said they did get my results, but they hadn't been sent to Dr. Vigg yet. I asked her if she could tell me the results and she said my doctor needed to talk to me about them. I probably won't get the results until tomorrow morning.

I hate this fucking waiting game.

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