u/sharedguns

I’m 26 and I honestly never thought of posting here but few weeks ago I went to an oral surgeon to get my gums fixed because the dentist who removed my wisdom teeth did a terrible job, and it’s been bothering me ever since. Before doing anything, they took a panoramic X-ray to make sure there weren’t any fragments of the tooth left behind which was most likely. Instead of talking about my teeth, the surgeon told me he had noticed some calcifications in my neck and recommended that I get them checked out. At first, I wasn’t too worried. He said it could be related to my chronic sinus issues, since I’ve struggled with sinus inflammation for years. Then I saw my GP, he looked at the X-ray and referred me straight to an endocrinologist. After an ultrasound, they found a suspicious thyroid nodule, and yesterday I was told I need a fine-needle biopsy.

I’m beyond terrified. About everything, the biopsy, the fact I can't use anestesia. My mom had a tumor once, but it was benign, but she was old and I am way too young. Is it a tumor common between young adults? I know a biopsy doesn’t automatically mean cancer, but it’s hard not to jump to the worst-case scenario since it's 3cm big. Besides endless chronic fatigue, I feel healthy, and this all started because I wanted to fix a problem, not find another to worry about.

Has anyone else here had their thyroid nodule discovered completely by accident? How did you cope while waiting for the biopsy results? Were you diagnosed with Hashimoto? If yes, before or after in this process? I am not paranoid, just wanna hear similar experiences to cope with all the stress in my body.

I’m 26 and I honestly never thought of posting here but few weeks ago I went to an oral surgeon to get my gums fixed because the dentist who removed my wisdom teeth did a terrible job, and it’s been bothering me ever since. Before doing anything, they took a panoramic X-ray to make sure there weren’t any fragments of the tooth left behind which was most likely. Instead of talking about my teeth, the surgeon told me he had noticed some calcifications in my neck and recommended that I get them checked out. At first, I wasn’t too worried. He said it could be related to my chronic sinus issues, since I’ve struggled with sinus inflammation for years. Then I saw my GP, he looked at the X-ray and referred me straight to an endocrinologist. After an ultrasound, they found a suspicious thyroid nodule, and yesterday I was told I need a fine-needle biopsy.

I’m beyond terrified. About everything, the biopsy, the fact I can't use anestesia. My mom had a tumor once, but it was benign, but she was old and I am way too young. Is it a tumor common between young adults? I know a biopsy doesn’t automatically mean cancer, but it’s hard not to jump to the worst-case scenario since it's 3cm big. Besides endless chronic fatigue, I feel healthy, and this all started because I wanted to fix a problem, not find another to worry about.

Has anyone else here had their thyroid nodule discovered completely by accident? How did you cope while waiting for the biopsy results? Were you diagnosed with Hashimoto? If yes, before or after in this process? I am not paranoid, just wanna hear similar experiences to cope with all the stress in my body.

Hi r/AskHistorians,

I’m researching the bureaucracy surrounding Aryanization, property transfers, forced sales, and deportation risk in Nazi-controlled Central/Eastern Europe, roughly between 1938 and 1942. I’m especially interested in the social and administrative gray zone between private property management and state persecution.

Suppose there was a wealthy or socially established Jewish/assimilated Jewish family with real estate, business interests, art/valuables, bank accounts, and a desire to protect at least part of their property or buy time for family members. They are not poor or isolated, but they are increasingly vulnerable under anti-Jewish laws, occupation authorities, registration requirements, confiscation, forced sales, and deportation measures.

My questions are about the kinds of people such a family might have needed or trusted:

1. ⁠What kinds of professionals or semi-official intermediaries were involved in Jewish property “Aryanization” or forced transfer?

For example: trustees, asset managers, lawyers, notaries, brokers, interpreters, commercial representatives, appointed administrators, bank contacts, local officials, or people connected to occupation authorities.

2. What German or local-language terms would have been used for such roles?

I have come across terms like Treuhänder, kommissarischer Verwalter, Vermögensverwalter, Bevollmächtigter, Vermittler, and Arisierung, but I’m not sure how these differed in practice or which would fit a private/semi-official intermediary.

3. Could someone without being high-ranking in the Nazi hierarchy still have had significant practical power through access to paperwork, property offices, permits, buyers, banks, local police, or military/administrative contacts?
   In what ways would a Jewish family have depended on such a person?

For example, could he help delay confiscation, find an “acceptable” buyer, transfer assets to a non-Jewish name, negotiate forced sales, arrange documents, interpret regulations, communicate with offices, or buy time before deportation? I am not asking for a “how-to,” but for historical understanding of what kinds of dependence existed.

4. Were there cases where families relied on a trusted intermediary because of pre-existing social ties, such as a family friendship, business relationship, military service connection from World War I, or long-standing patronage relationship?

5. If the family had a daughter/heir whose marriage was socially or financially strategic, would property protection, inheritance, or attempted social assimilation have influenced the family’s urgency to arrange marriage or secure assets before deportation/confiscation?

I’m trying to understand the bureaucratic ecosystem: not only the perpetrators at the top, but the middle layer of lawyers, trustees, administrators, brokers, translators, “fixers,” or family contacts who made the machinery function and who could sometimes profit from, delay, facilitate, or manipulate it.

I would be grateful for any historical terminology, examples, archives, memoirs, or scholarship on this type of role, especially in Vienna/Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Kraków, Galicia, or nearby Eastern European contexts.

Thanks!

Filling the form for the interview was going great until the social media informations came up. I have no issue giving my usernames, but "making them all public" when I am a highly reserved individual seems out of question to me.

I am a regular person with a permanent residence in Europe, a working contract without end date, etc. My life is here, but my nationality does require a tourist visa. I have several relatives in the US, and I was invited to be a bridesmaid on my cousins wedding in Illinois but I am not sure if I am willing to get rid of my privacy for a VISA.

My question: is there a way around this? Will private accounts have such a impact that they will ignore all the rest and deny my application straight away? Is there anyone that got the visa without bending to this invasive policy? I am dealing with the american belgian embassy, so they probably are busiest with student visas and all, I highly doubt they have high volume of B1/B2 requests.

I feel horrible, but if my entry depends on adopting a behaviour that makes me feel uncomfortable and exposed, I think I either have to miss another important family milestone or cross my boundaries to satisfy MAGA's witch hunt.