I am going to be taking a short “vacation” from blogging. My cancer recovery is not going as fast as I had hoped, and right now I have to concentrate on resting and trying to heal.
I appreciate the e-mails so many thyroid cancer patients have sent me- those who have already been through it, and those who have just been newly diagnosed and have questions. Feel free to send me an e-mail if you have any questions (my e-mail is on my Contact Me page), and I will respond to you as soon as I can.
I have also archived all my cancer posts in the right hand side bar under “cancer” so you can read about my experience and what I have learned so far, and hopefully you may find some answers to your questions in some of those posts.
I am hoping my mini blogging break will be short lived, and I will be able to blog again in the very near future. Right now though I need to concentrate on healing and getting my body ready for the radioactive iodine treatment it needs.
If you follow me on Twitter, I will try to post short updates there on how I am doing- that is much easier right now than writing a blog post, and of course if you are a Facebook friend I will see you around there.
As a final note for now, PLEASE have your health care provider check your thyroid at your annual exam. If anything feels “off” get in for an ultrasound as soon as you can. That saved me from having to have my neck totally dissected to remove the lymph nodes that the cancer had spread to. My surgeon credited my nurse practitioner who caught it early and insisted I have an ultrasound. In my opinion, I don’t think there is enough information out there informing women of thyroid cancer.
Thanks again for all the support you all have given me during this process. I will be back stronger and healthier, and will share the rest of my thyroid cancer experience. Cancer can happen to anyone- please take care of yourselves and follow up with anything you or your health care provider thinks is abnormal.