Birdie Pearl
4 min readFeb 27, 2022

Can We Re-Name Graves’ Disease?

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“It’s not a TUMA!” I repeatedly said to my husband all week.

But it is a ‘Nodule’

The report I received first thing on this sunny Sunday morning was that I had three nodules on my thyroid. I didn’t look at the sizes on the report. I don’t want to know.

After finding a Dr. who actually took ten minutes to actually listen to me, I explained that I could feel something in my…

Birdie Pearl

An old nurse, now hermit. Trying to write this all down before I forget it.