Health, Cancer & Recovery
Life following my Thyroidectomy/Thyroid Cancer (2 years post removal)
Two years after a thyroidectomy: what replacing a thyroid with hormone medication actually feels like, and why "the good cancer" is not that simple.
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Health, Cancer & Recovery
Thyroid cancer, surgery and life afterwards, autoimmune illness, and walking alongside someone through treatment.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Radiation Therapy Sucks
Learning what radiation treatment really involves as an aunt begins it — the isolation, the side effects, and the statistics behind the decision.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Get It Out (Papillary Thyroid Cancer Thyroidectomy Surgery)
A day-by-day account of papillary thyroid cancer surgery: the fasting, the nerves in the OR, the recovery, and saying goodbye to a thyroid named Harry.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Anxiety and Thyroid Cancer combined
Facing a thyroid cancer diagnosis while living with anxiety, and the spiral of worry that arrives before a surgery you cannot talk yourself out of.
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Cancer, I Hate you. Part 2
Continuing an aunt's breast cancer story: the surgery, the first day of chemotherapy, and what actually helps when you are the support person.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Autoimmune Diseases. I think.
Years of fatigue, mono, chronic strep and unexplained symptoms, and the long uncertain road toward an autoimmune answer that has not fully arrived.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Cancer, I hate you.
A grandfather lost to cancer weeks before a wedding, and the phone call years later that brought another breast cancer diagnosis into the family.