Those days it was a major operation – open heart surgery lasting about three hours to close those holes that some are born with, followed by many days in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a long scar on the chest forever.
The thyroid is one of the endocrine glands in the human body, situated in the neck just below the larynx. The gland produces the hormone “thyroxin” which is essential for many functions of the body such as growth, intelligence, temperature control etc.
