Another Specialist

Yesterday we met with an endocrinology resident and another endocrinologist to discuss enrique's treatment after the surgery. It sounds pretty straightforward. They do some "very sensitive blood tests" to determine the amount of the synthetic hormones he should recieve and after some adjustments and 1-2 months of getting used to it, he should be feeling himself.

They also provided a sorta-second opinion on the necesity of removing the entire thyroid. I say "sorta" because they didn't have the pathology report that determined that the nodules are malignant. Nevertheless, they felt that the location of the nodules (one one side and in the center) eliminated the possibility of simply removing part of the thyroid.

That option never seemed likely, but it would have been nice because the thyoroid continues to functions and no synthetic hormones are required.