My Experience With Thyroid Cancer

Being 21 has been such a beginning for me. I've been through a lot, but I'm still just starting out. I have really felt that this last year. I've done things that are really really "21" like spending Sunday mornings watching the TV I like while eating pancakes and browsing Pinterest. I have taken countless funny videos of my roommate/best friend and posted them online. As someone who intends to have a family later in life, I really relish in this period of selfishness and indulgence. I kinda answer to no one. Even though I've been with the same man five and a half years, I'm rather unencumbered and able to move through life how I choose. There was a period where I felt stifled and held back by thyroid cancer, never able to make decisions, always waiting for the next piece of news, but I think that has passed. My most recent tests and ultrasound show no change, so I go back in another three months. I guess my new normal fits okay. I completed a ...

It's been nearly three months since I last wrote! Wow. Every time I have a little free time, it crosses my mind to come update the blog and then I think, "No, not today." And for some reason, tonight the answer was, "Yes." The traffic on this blog is starting to pick up, as I near the two year anniversary of my diagnosis. I guess the older the blog is, the higher priority it gets. A lot of people come to my blog through google searches related to the low iodine diet. I've had a few people email me over the last few months too. People with thyroid cancer, or people whose close loved one has it. I really love exchanging the emails. Please write me and let's talk. The reason I've been so busy is that I'm in a yoga teacher training program. I work full time, so it's a tight squeeze. I love being busy, I really do. I put things on the calendar and make my life busy, but I also schedule trips and getaways. But I do need a lot of activity h...

It's that time of year and I'm reflecting a lot....ya know, 2012 I had two surgeries and a radioactive treatment for my thyroid cancer. 2012 was the year of taking action against the cancer, in harmful ways really. I feel like 2013 was the year of feelings....so much feelings! I'm just sitting here thinking, have I dealt with my thyroid cancer? Of course it's different for everyone blah blah. I guess I have been dealing with it as it comes. It's just not over, so that's why I'm ambivalent for 2014. I think 2012 was very traumatic and I didn't realize it until this year. I realized it, but maybe didn't feel the full extent of everything until this year. I was so disappointed this year when my progress in recovery from cancer plateaued and I didn't get to that cancer-free finish line. I still can't fucking believe this is my life. Johnny has been reading a book written by a doctor that discusses cancer treatment going back over the centuries...

My Grandma had me see a nutritionist who works with foundational wellness in October. My Grandma has a friend who had breast cancer for the third time, this time stage IV, and she saw this person and her health really turned around. Honestly I don't know the status of any actual malignant tumors in her body, but the idea is that through diet change, supplements and other lifestyle changes, the immune system can be healed so the body can heal itself. I'm so grateful that my Grandma wanted to pay for me to see Laura. Such a huge gift. I went in very open minded, and I came out with a headache from all the information I took in. I do understand where she was coming from, and I do believe what she says. She definitely didn't have some magic elixir tea for me to drink--she does not claim to cure cancer. She's not a doctor and she doesn't treat, cure or diagnose. Basically she operates from the standpoint that most people have cancer because their immune system is/w...