made me feel alive again.
After that day I registered in all the mud runs/
OCRs I could find. I completely had everything
under control. I was working out everyday, eating
healthier, and neither my Hashemoto nor my
diabetes was getting in my way. Just as things started
to be looking fantastic, I was hit with some news
that had me stop my love affair with OCRs for a
little while.
As 2012 progressed, and through my constant
doctors visits, it just so happened that he one day
found a nodule on my thyroid. The only reason he
found the nodule was for the simple fact that prior
to that visit he had never sonogrammed my thyroid.
Now you may think that having a nodule on your
thyroid is a bad thing, but actually a multitude of
people actually develop nodules on their thyroids.
It’s basically a build up of muscle tissue. But of
course, being a diabetic and being diagnosed with
Hashemoto, my endocrinologist wanted to have my
nodule biopsied also for the reason that the nodule
had been found to be 1cm in diameter, which is the
size in the medical community that you actually
need to start worrying about. A couple months later
after running several tests on the piece of nodule
they had biopsied, I received the results and it was
probably the hardest blow I had received up until
that point in time; I was diagnosed with papillary
carcinoma, the diffuse sclerosing variant (one of the
rarer/more aggressive of the four variants). I was in
a state of shock and it took me a long while to come
to grasps with the fact that I had cancer. I became
extremely introverted and really depressed. I tried to
keep a mask on so my friends and family would not
worry about me, but deep down inside it hit hard.