Hey, I'm not a nurse but I had thyroid cancer and I can tell you that firstly, thyroid nodules are very, very common. Only about 5% of them are cancerous, so the odds are very much in your favour.

And worst case scenario, thyroid cancer isn't what one usually imagines when one hears the word cancer. For a start, the survival rate for the most common forms is up in the high 90s. If you are under about 50, I think it is over 99%. So it's unlikely to be life-threatening. They also rarely use chemotherapy or any ongoing treatment. It's mostly just a matter of having your thyroid (and possibly some lymph nodes if there is spread to those) removed. Some people do have difficulty with the medication and find it takes time to get it right, but for most people, it's not a problem.

I was diagnosed with thryoid cancer in November 2019, had my thryoid removed on the 6th of January 2020 and was back at work a month later and that was mostly that. I did have radio-iodine treatment a few months later, but that is really just swallowing a capsule to reduce the risk of recurrence.

I would say on the whole, it wasn't really much worse than having your appendix or gallbladder or tonsils removed. The only additional thing was the possibiltiy of reccurence, but it's been more than 4 years now and that hasn't happened yet.