Friday....the end of a very long week! Phil is back at work, and my kids are next door at Grandmas while I try to rest and recuperate. Right around noon my phone rang, it was Dr.Riddle's nurse practitioner, she asked me if I had a few minutes to chat. The nurse start out talking about my calcium levels, and how they looked good. So that's a relief to me. Then she goes on to say, "Now I would like to go over your pathology results." Here I'm thinking no big deal while she's mumbling her medical talk, "the results have came back positive for cancer, and we took out 7 of your lymph nodes and 3 of them have cancer in them, and your thyroid was full of it." What am I hearing things right???? Did she just say cancer? Holding back tears I listened to what all she had to say. She said I'll see you next week and we'll go over what we need to do. I hang up just in time to have my sister in law Erin walk in the room and I felt bad cause I just burst into tears as I called my husband at work. I think he was just as shocked as I was. It was horrible.
So here it goes: I have Palpatory Cancer in my thyroid (that is now out). That would explain the lump in my throat, and the multiple cyst we found growing down the opposite side. Since they did take out all of my thyroid I don't have to go back in and have them take anymore. Thank goodness I had the procedure done!
Over the next couple of weeks they will let whatever thyroid that is running in my body run out of my system. I will start loosing my energy and I will have to be on a low iodine diet! No iodized salt, no dairy products, no food with Red Dye 40, and so forth. When my TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone reaches a certain level they will put me on a Radioactive pill for 24-48 hours, and I will have to be completely secluded from everyone. Then I will receive a Full Body scan that will inch down my body to see where the cancer is, and how big of a dose of radiation to give me.
So here we are, we are taking this ONE day at a time. So yes today has been a rough day, I know that the Lord is watching over me and my family. I just hope we can make it through all this!
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