Hashimoto and me

8 months ago I woke up looking like a frog (not green, just swollen up like one) and my doc suggested that I have an ultrasound, which I obediently did and they found a "little dot" (literal words of the person who interpreted my results) and who suggested to wait another 6 months to "see if something happens" (yep, literal words again)...and I did wait!
Almost 2 months ago I woke up looking worse than a frog, this time I looked like I was wearing a fat suit like in the movies (like Monica used to look in Friends when she was fat) no neck at all, I was so swollen that my tonsils were together, and my voice was totally different. That day I freaked out and I ran to have another ultrasound, this time they found that I didn't have one nodule, but 2 on my thyroid.
If the nodules weren't bad enough the doctor ordered me to have a biopsy, because "maybe they are not just nodules...maybe it's cancer". Thank you doc. Everybody was extra nice to me those weeks that I was waiting for my biopsy appointment. Luckily it wasn't cancer but Hashimoto, a syndrome that ultimately is going to destroy my thyroid, so I had 2 options: take a medicine for life and wait until they get destroyed or take my thyroid out right now, eliminating with that the syndrome and taking the same medicine for life anyway.
I don't want to wait for that total destruction, so I'm having surgery next Thursday to remove my 2 nodules, my thyroids and my tonsils, because they are way too big and they cause me infections all the time.

Good news: I can have a looooot of ice cream! Thank you, Hakaru Hashimoto