Usually blood vessels on a lobe like that can indicate a benign tumor on the thyroid gland. If the lobe is cancerous, you don't have to go the conventional route with radiation. You can seek out alternative therapies for thyroid cancer. I would start researching alternative treatments to prepare yourself for November's follow-up appointment. If it was cancerous, you'd know that already. But you don't mention that in your post.

I know if it were me, I'd go the cannabis oil route. Most papillary thyroid cancers are 100% curable. You'll be given the option of having your thyroid removed (but you'll still take hormone replacement for the thyroid), which includes the lobe that is covered in blood vessels (which are there to feed the benign/cancerous tumor).

I know women who've had papillary thyroid cancer and who avoided radiation and iodine treatment and went the alternative route and had their thyroid cancer healed, even without it being removed. But you need to do your research and read medical journals too, regarding your symptoms.

Like, here http://www.calgarycmmc.com/cancerthyroid.htm and here http://hypothyroidmom.com/reefer-mad...yroid-disease/

You just need to comb through the internet and thyroid medical journals in the U.S., and Canada and the UK and the Netherlands to find research that supports alternative treatments vs. traditional treatments (that tend to have more serious side effects than alternative).