Several years ago, two nodules were observed on both of my thyroid glands. You can go elsewhere to find out more about what the common treatment for these growths are but it includes needle biopsies, ultrasounds, and drug treatments using synthetic hormone (i.e. Synthroid). Eventually, I landed at the Cleveland Clinic and my biopsies (which were ambiguous) were evaluated using a new medical technology known as Afirma developed by Veracyte ( www.veracyte.com/afirma/ ). The cells were determined to be suspicious, meaning, in laymen’s terms as explained to me, there was a 30 to 50 percent chance of these cells morphing over to cancer.

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One of the services I offer is owner’s representation. I thought it might be helpful to describe the service…perhaps over a few postings.

Ideally, an owner realizes his organization (and this could be her family), is about to become involved in the “constructed environment”. In other...

   

 

For a number of years I have had a goal….probably like many of you…to lose some weight and to also increase my muscle mass. Now….this may come as a shock to some of you as I guess I might reasonably be considered skinny but I had managed to accumulate a fair amount of body fat in my mid...