Part 1: My Thyroid Got CancerPart 2: My Thyroid Got Cancer: 1 Year LaterPart 3: The Thing That Won't Go AwayPart 4: Here I Go AgainPart 5: And Now A Bit of Certainty The pill is smaller than you’d think. It’s oblong with red and white caps. It comes in a cylindrical container, tapered at… Continue reading A few days of radioactive seclusion
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And now, a bit of certainty
If you're new to my cancer saga, here are parts one and two. Part three is coming along in a couple of sittings like these two. It's the part where after I get diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer, get it removed, and carry on with a bit of cloud hanging over my head, the cloud… Continue reading And now, a bit of certainty
Here I go again
It was 3:55 in the afternoon when I got the call. The area code was local to where I live and I rarely got robodials or spam calls with that prefix so I picked up, even though I had a work call in 5 minutes. It was a receptionist from my endocrinologist's office. My heart… Continue reading Here I go again
The thing that won’t go away
This is my third article about thyroid cancer I was diagnosed with. The first two are here and here. Yesterday I got another ultrasound of my neck. Today I got a call from my doctor that the lymph node that the various doctors have been tracking for nearly two years now continues to be a… Continue reading The thing that won’t go away
My thyroid got cancer: one year later
This is a follow-up to my first article, My Thyroid Got Cancer. The ultrasounds are soothing. The whir of the machine, the doctor’s thoughtful grunts as she probes my neck, the crackle of the paper on the examination table. It is very familiar to me now. I relax into it and close my eyes. I… Continue reading My thyroid got cancer: one year later
My thyroid got cancer
My thyroid got cancer some time ago. The doctors can’t say when because there was no way to determine a growth rate. It might have been thirty years ago when my throat was X-rayed during a bout with really bad croup, but nobody knows. On January 29, 2017, a talented surgeon at Kaiser in Walnut… Continue reading My thyroid got cancer