I really had a good day yesterday.
Thank you for all the cards and well wishes, it really made me feel special.
Usually I'm bummed on my birthdays.
But I was ok.
You guys were really sweet to me. My mom called, Brad's mom called to tell me happy birthday. I opened gifts from family.
Got some really cool stuff too!
I got the Lenny Bruce book I wanted and it includes a CD kinda like a documentary with some clips from his shows.
A rock tumbler, to polish rocks - which I just think is really neat.
Some nice bath stuff, a candle, and some sweaters and pj's my mom sent me, OH and the DVD for The Fabulous Stains my sister got for me!
Brad woke up early yesterday and sang me "Happy Birthday" in bed and gave me a new TV and a subscription to People magazine.

I had an appt with a doctor yesterday because of a mass on my thyroid.
I left work early to go to the specialist about the "nodule" (that word cracks me up) in my thyroid.
I was surprising cool about it, not nervous, just something that has to get done.
Brad went with me, which was nice, cause he is just relaxing to be around also he totally handled us getting there and finding the place for me. We took the blue line to Forest Park and then got on a bus to take us to Loyola Medical Center. Takes a little under an hour, but much cheaper than a cab!

Dr. Steve De Jong was really great. He is a professor too, so lots of residents and students around. And they were all really nice about everything.
They had me swallow water and looked and felt my throat while I did that. Helped me feel it for myself since I didnt feel anything before. Kept calling it a "nodule".
Had the student come up to feel it too.
It was funny, Im just laying there saying to him "Come on, come touch my nodule!" It sounds so crass. I LOVE IT!
Did a biopsy.
They cleaned my throat off 3 times with iodine, and then gave me a shot of novocaine so when they did the biopsy it wouldnt hurt as much and so I wouldnt move around as much and mess them up.
They took 4 small syringes and poked it from different angles and sucked a little bit out. The novocaine hurt worse. It burned.
The biopsy just felt weird. I could feel it in me, and feel pressure from it moving around, but also I was just nervous and tense.
They had me laying down with a doubled over pillow under my shoulders so my head was tilted way back.
The doctor did 2 syringes, and had the resident do they other 2 with his supervision.
I told them afterwards, I didnt want to sit up right away, I was worried about getting light headed. That happened before, when I am laying down for a doctor and tense and then I get up too quick. The nurse was so sweet, she brought me some apple juice.
He gave me a prescription for some pills that is supposed to shrink my thyroid and the "nodule", and I have an appt in 8 weeks to see if its shrunk.

The test result will be in by Monday if tis cancerous. If it is, the I will go in a lot sooner and have them take it out.
Im ok with this.
Im not nervous.
Either way it will get taken care of and I will be ok.
If they take it out, I think I will get a scar across my chest.
Im weird...but I kinda like that part.
I wouldnt want a scar across my face but besides that I think scars are cool.
War wounds.
Of course to be the rough tough cream puff that I am, I would tell everyone I got the scar in a knife fight or something really cool like that. :D

After we took the train home and let the dog out. We went to my birthday dinner at Sullivan's.
Had a medium-rare fillet mignon, mushroom caps, asparagus, and Brad had the Kansas City strip steak and split the sides with me. Came with a lettuce wedge covered in tomato cubes and blue cheese crumbs and a blue cheese dressing. THEN... we got cappuccinos and split a chocolate souffle.
Everything was just wonderful. It was a real treat.