8/24/2011

So I started this blog awhile ago to record my thyroid/cancer posts so I can have record of it. I'm sure most are sick of hearing about test results and so forth so now on I'll be posting over here. It's more of a record for me and my family. I was excited about my last post, only to get a call a couple days later saying they drew the WRONG TEST, so I was so frustrated. Plus it didn't help that my husband was gone all week and it was really hard. I did have lots of help from my ward and that helped a lot so I could still rest and start recovering. On Tuesday I met with my cancer doctor and she upped my medication .25 so hopefully that will help. And she had 5 test ran on me. I'm still really low on my thyroid levels TSH so that's why: I've been depressed, my hair is falling out (some women literally go bald from this), my hair is unbelievably dry, my skin is dry and itchy, and fatigue. I figured the fatigue is from my surgery but its a combination of both. Then Thursday when I went to pick up Phil from his trip I had another blood test ran from my other doctor. Monday morning I got two phone calls: #1 from Dr.Maturlos office saying all my test came back good, and levels are starting to improve. My cancer/cell blood test they drew came back negative. So I asked what that means and she said its a really good chance that they got everything they needed. #2 from Dr.Riddle my Thyroidglobin test came back a little low, but only by a small margin. So they will test me again when I go back in September. So those are two very wonderful things, but I'm having a hard time getting excited about it. I just feel like whenever I do something goes wrong, or they call me and say oh but this test didn't look good. There was a time a couple of weeks ago when I thought I was going to not survive this, that my kids would grow up with out me. Dr.Riddle, and Clarene have done a good job assuring me that this isn't going to happen, and that is why they are running every test that they can, and are seeing me in there office so much. So I am very grateful for that and I hope that I can continue to go the way that I have been going these past two years!