by Dr. Jane Jacobson

While I was on vacation, I went to bed with a small lump in my neck that had been irritating me through the evening. The following morning, the lump had swelled to the size of a golf ball and was very sore to the touch. I visited a Prompt Care where I was vacationing and was diagnosed with an infected lymph node. The doctor wrote a prescription for antibiotics and told me to see my personal physician when I returned home.

Immediately, God quickened Jeremiah 23:29 to my spirit: “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” As I stood on God’s Word, the pain left immediately. However, the lump was still on my neck two weeks later when I returned home.

The lump was located on the lower right side of my throat just above the collar bone. When I saw my personal physician, her immediate concern was that I may have a goiter. Goiter! Really! When is the last time you heard of somebody having a goiter? My doctor ordered an ultrasound, but by the time the test was scheduled, the growth had disappeared to a point that I could no longer feel it with my fingers. The ultrasound, though, indicated that I indeed had an abnormal enlargement of my thyroid gland. The next step was for me to have a thyroid scan.