I know my blog is so boring and depressing, but I feel like it is important to keep a journal of what is going on. I am so blessed to have my mothers journal from when she underwent Breast Cancer therapy. It makes what I'm going through seem like nothing. It's important to keep a life history especially since my mother passed away when I was nine years old. I can't just call her up and ask her, hey did you have to do this, or why do you think I have to deal with this? The crazy thing is all my life I've always known I would get cancer. My mother first started having some problems in 1985 she was only 23 or 24 years old. She went into have it checked out and her doctor said, "don't worry your too young to have cancer." So she went on with her life. In November of 1986 she wasn't feeling too great. She had a lot of pain in her chest and arms, then in December of that year she felt a lump in her breast. In February my dad pretty much dragged my mom into a doctors office. It is interesting to read, "during this time I had a reoccurring dream that I would be in the hospital really sick. I was really scared." The next week she says to my dad, "why does it have to be cancer, I'd rather have a heart problem, diabetes, anything but cancer. After all not very many people I had known had survived cancer." That is frighting to read, yet it has helped me get through this, its like my mom is hear sitting next to me as I go through this.
So anyways Phil and I were able to visit with a Endrocronolist today. She answered all of Phil's and my questions. So now we kind of know where to go from here. The only thing that stinks is that I thought I had more time on my hands to prepare myself and my family. But I don't, I have to start a low iodine diet, today they dream my blood to check my calcium levels, and my thyroid levels. So tomorrow I'll officially know when my treatment starts. So what they will do next week or the week after is a scan of my entire body (kind of like a MRI) to see how much of a radioactive dose to give me. Then when my thyroid levels are where they want them to be I will start the radioactive treatment. The other doctor told me that is was 24-48 hours in isolation, but NO it could be up to 10 DAYS! I don't know what I'm going to do, my kids are going to freak, especially my little 1 1/2 year old! Phil is going to turn our bedroom into a little studio apartment, and move a little microwave and the little refrigerator in so I don't have to clean so much after the treatment. Phil will be able to come in for 20 minutes a day but he has to keep a distance of 6 feet.
I have a cousin who underwent thyroid cancer as well so she have been a valuable source of information, and a sweetheart to help me get though this. She said by the time she had here treatment she slept most of the time especially since I won't be able to start my medication again until the 5Th day of treatment.
On the 3rd or 4Th day I will go to the hospital and they will scan me with a little hand held device that will read the radiation level in my body. From there they will know how long I actually have to be in isolation.
So I guess there are different types of Thyroid Cancer, they are a little concerned because a couple of the lymph nodes they biopsied have cancer in them. So hopefully when they do the scan they will find that it hasn't spread to other parts of my body. That's a lot to take in for one day, but I know that the Lord is watching over me and my family. I actually feel really blessed, I know my mother has been around a lot checking up on me. So we will just go from here.
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