This week I had several appointments so here’s a little update on all of them. On Monday I made the trip back to Houston to MD Anderson. I had an appt to see my plastic surgeon. I was mostly concerned about a large area of fat necrosis on my cancer side that has developed over the past few months. The dr looked at it and he thinks it should break up and soften some more as time goes on. If it becomes painful, then we should act on it. He said it would be best to leave it alone if possible since we could have issues with future fat transfers. Since the skin was subjected to radiation, it will never be the same as the non-cancer side. He did say we could go in and try to match sides a bit more closer. He left it up to me but after talking things through a bit more, I think we’re going to leave it alone for now. I’m also having some discomfort by my belly button and they don’t believe it to be a hernia. We’re going to give that more time to settle down as well. Hopefully, both areas will improve some more. I then went to have the ultrasound on my thyroid. I didn’t get those results until I had my Zoom follow up on Tuesday afternoon with the neck and head oncologist. I was expecting her to tell me that we were going to keep monitoring the nodules on my thyroid. But this time, she told me she thinks we may need to move forward in the future with removing it. The biggest one on the right side is getting bigger. She first said maybe only removing the right side but then said it would be best to remove the whole thing because there are several nodules on both sides. I asked what happens when the thyroid is removed and she said I would have to take a pill for the rest of my life to do the job that the thyroid does. We didn’t decide anything definitively but I’m kind of leaning towards just having it out so I don’t have to continue to worry about what the nodules are doing.