Cancer

I was diagnosed with a fast-growing and invasive form of Follicular Variant Thyroid Cancer (FVPTC) on June 18, 2008, during surgery. I started this blog to chronicle what I thought would be a short season of cancer treatment. Here is a compilation of my most important posts, milestones on the road of cancer.

3D spectrometry image of a thyroid cancer cell

Biopsy information on my tumor

Surgery at Mayo-Rochester contained a few surprises

Finding out cancer wasn't cured during surgery

Trying to decide about treatment post-surgery

Initial treatment with radioactive iodine

Second opinion pathology report showed more aggressive cancer

Meeting the inventor of Synthroid, Dr. Roy Weiss, getting a second opinion

Acceptance and confession

Second post-treatment cancer scan

A scare over an ovarian mass

If I die young

Carrying my story

Learning to mother through cancer

Slowing down because of cancer

Suffering and criticism

Preparing for cancer scan #3

Weaning because of cancer

Praises for small healings

Cancer isn't gone, but it's not growing, either

Dreaming about remission

Now I look like cancer

Being bald is liking wearing a sign: "I Have Cancer"
Finally hearing that magic word, REMISSION!
Lingering effects of radiation damage
Dealing with emotional aftermath of cancer