And when  I went to my OB this week for a routine exam, she felt my neck and said “is your neck always this big?” Me: “?????!?” Turns out I have a very enlarged thyroid. AKA a goiter. Go google images, I dare ya.

Okay, now that you’ve picked yourself off the floor…. I have to go see a specialist and we’ll see what’s next. From what I can tell, all treatment is usually postponed during pregnancy, but it still has to be monitored. Of course now I feel like a sideshow freak with the swollen neck, but maybe this is the reason why I have felt so dead tired and muzzy-headed the last couple of years, even when I’m eating right and exercising. I’ve had my T4 levels tested and they always come back low but within normal range. But obviously something ain’t “normal” if it’s all blown up on one side. 

Meanwhile I’m having visions of a post-op Frankenstein scar and wearing scarves for the rest of my days. Isadora Duncan, I flutter my scarf in your general direction!