I actually have a day off which means I'm trying to catch up on cleaning, for some reason my family seems to think this task needs to fall solely upon me. Since my surgery I no longer have sleep apnea so I have the energy to do so I don't mind, too much. I am a little tired from working all the time trying to get all of my hours in for FMLA and being on the go constantly, so that's starting to ware me down.
It's eleven days and counting until I start my low iodine diet, and from what I understand I pretty much can't have anything. No dairy, chocolate, soy, seafood, or anything made with seafood. I can have fruit and veggies excluding beans and potato skins up to five ounces of lean meats a day and in my case gluten free grains, and unsalted nuts. I have to do this for nine days. This should be a nice little weight loss diet lol. I'm already planning my last meal. Being from a small town I have already tried to find substitutions for things such as milk and butter to make those nine days just a little more tolerable, but everything either has salt, which I don't know if its iodized or not or it has some seaweed extract. So I guess I'm just going to have to tough it out :/
I was scrolling through the thyroid cancer support group on fb this morning and stopped to read about Roger Ebert, I knew he has passed away but did not realize it was from thyroid cancer. He was diagnosed and had a tumor removed back in 2002 it had came back and spread to his salivary glands I do believe. Although the article did not state what type he had. Even though thyroid cancer has a wonderful prognosis it does take lives, and his journey is not my journey and it might not be your journey, but I think people tend to forget sometimes. When I was first diagnosed it was by an ENT doctor he said that with treatment I could be "cured" and I'm finding out its more like a chronic condition than anything and so many say to me "oh you have the good kind of cancer" we'll that's a very uneducated statement I know it's meant well. I'm being told by my doctor that I might have cancer in my lungs or bones, really the good kind? So I just sit and wait for my body scan on the 23rd of this month. Now I work the next four days... But I'm still alive!