I am just now getting around to giving a short report on my follow up appointment with my parathyroid/thyroid surgeon, Dr. Dan Kletzing. My appointment with him was last Thursday afternoon, February 21st.
He took out the stitches in my neck telling me he put the incision in a “crease”. What a diplomat! He avoided the word wrinkle. 
He is such a gentleman.
We did not misunderstand him as far as the lymph nodes in my neck. He said they were areas of the thyroid that were not in the gland itself. He used the word “compartment”. He told me during my hospital stay as well as last Thursday that it does not matter whether or not the lymph nodes are involved because the treatment is the same…radioactive iodine therapy. His guess is that I will receive that therapy about a week after the radiation therapy has been completed.
He knows the radiologist that I will be seeing this coming Thursday, Dr. Wilson and says that he is very well qualified. It is always nice to hear a positive confirmation from someone you trust and I do trust Dr. Kletzing.
Every day I am thankful for how the Lord has been a very real part of this journey! I am constantly amazed at his goodness. Another confirmation of that was something that Dr. Kletzing said during my appointment. He said, “You are a poster child for mammography. No one would have been able to feel the lump in your breast for another one to two years, including you.”
Although I am a very thankful and grateful person because of the results I am experiencing I want everyone who reads this blog to know that God is a good God no matter what my circumstances or results are. He was faithful and good before knowing that these two cancers were very treatable. Would it have been a little harder to praise him wholeheartedly if the results were not positive? Yes, because I am human. My heart and mouth would have praised him but it would have been with a heavier heart for sure. I am still learning the lessons that he teaches day by day about trusting him. I received a card from a family at church that I will share that says what I am trying to say very well. It says…
…God is too good to be unkind, He is too wise to be mistaken, and when you can’t trace His hand, that’s when you must learn to trust His heart.
~Please continue to pray for God’s guidance in the next step of my therapies and for strength and healing of my body.
Psalm 68:19
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.
I am praying that you are recognizing the goodness of God in your life.
Love,
Carmel
