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Ya, I'm having surgery on Thursday. I have a Thyroglocil duct cist. When still an embryo, your thyroid drops and it leaves behind traces. These traces usually dissappear shortly after, but in some cases, they don't. Usually in childhood, at around 6-10, if the traces are still there, they build up and form a cist. It is a strange cist because it can get infected and it doesn't stop growing (Although its rate is slow). My traces didn't dissappear and my cist just came up. I am almost 15 so it has come up later than it normally would. It is between my chin and my throat. It is the size of a large marble. The surgery takes 2 hours. They have to go in and take our all of the cist and remove about an inch of a small bone in my neck. If they don't get all the little parts of the cist, it will grow back making the next procedure more difficult than the first. This sounds like it will have a painful recovery, but the doc says that the only inconvenience during recovery will be a stiff and sore neck. It shouldn't affect my eating or talking. Doc says I should be back in school the following monday. I shouldn't have too much work to make up :P (Make-up work is the worst part)
