When ill-health comes into a home and the brevity of life comes into focus, you realise more clearly that it’s not about now. We are poised within eternal life and are currently living the earthly big.
For the last few weeks Mike has had a bit of throat irritation. It’s winter, so this is not uncommon, but it wouldn’t go away. No other symptoms – just needing to clear his throat all the time. Unfortunately I’m not a very compassionate family nurse. I think these things will go away when forgotten about. But I know my pithy comments don’t go down well, so about ten days ago when he complained about it, I suggested he go see the doctor. With these things you need reassurance and peace of mind. Perhaps it’s a virus. The doctor will say. The day before yesterday, he went to see our GP and came home to say that he had nodules on his thyroid and the doctor suggested he have an ultrasound.
So yesterday, we drove through to Constantiaberg and he had it done. Most of the nodules looked ‘normal’ but there was a 1cm one that showed up as abnormal. The doctor called today and now we have scheduled a biopsy for Friday. From what we hear it is mostly likely to be malignant but we seem to have caught it quite early which improves the prognosis.
We had a wonderful long conversation and one thing is for sure, regardless of the outcome, Mike has no fear. It is what it is.
We have kept our sense of humour. I was scrolling through a thyroid cancer research article and I read something and said to Mike, “oh no, this will be a pain in the neck!” (not thinking what I was saying!) Mike laughed out loud & I suddenly heard what phrase I’d used! What I had read was that a chunk of the results of the biopsies for thyroid nodules are ‘inconclusive.’ A pain in the neck indeed!
Anyway, this is the next part of our journey. I’m not sure when we will get the results, but I’ll put them on my blog. We are expecting the worst but hoping for the best. Mike is philosophical. It is what it is!
#712 of my 1000 thanks – faith in Jesus and praying friends.
Today, I worked quite a lot, went to gym at lunchtime and worked a bit more this afternoon. I’ve got quite a lot of work to try to get through.
Tonight Julian arrives. 🙂
I don’t think it is by accident that my Christian Art diary has Don’t Worry Bible verses on each day of July. Today’s:
Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gym:
- I swam 62 lengths.