DEAR THYROID^TM

We didn’t announce this week’s word for acrostic poetry, which we’re doing right now… OVER. We are writing acrostic poems for a reason. Our goal is to make the invisible illness week’s list, among other awareness objectives. We want to educate and spread awareness through literary mediums using your words. Your words not only make up this community; they inspire, educate, heal, and mend fractured hearts, and extend permission to be angry, if we feel angry. Your words collectively are an ongoing epistolary series about the reality of thyroid disease and thyroid cancer.

If Dear Thyroid was written by a few people; would that be a true representation of thyroid disease or thyroid cancer? I don’t think so. Rather – we don’t think so.

Submit a Dear Thyroid letter; whether it’s your first or your 50th. Write it and share it.

Submit an acrostic poem this week using the word: OVER

Submit an article about something related to your disease that you want other thyroid patients to be aware of.

Send a missive (in comments) and remind each author that they aren’t alone; that their disease won’t win and that they are worth fighting for. Remind each other that we aren’t alone. We’re in this together.

Love,

Katie

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To Know you is to Hate you, written by Faith, is a letter that encapsulates the impact thyroid disease has on a relationship; the guilt; the anguish and the love. Please check it out and send love in comments or share your story with Faith.

Comment of the day…

Debra says:

Faith,

Consider yourself very lucky that you have a loving, supportive husband. Thyroid disease destroyed my marriage because my husband gave up on me. He didn’t want to deal with me being sick every day. He hates me now, and why, because by no fault of my own, i became ill. I will never understand how somebody can blame you for getting sick. I feel like it was all my fault, and i feel guilty every day of my life now. There are so many people who don’t understand how horrible this disease can make you feel. I guess if somebody leaves you because you are ill, they never really cared about you in the first place

Keira’s acrostic poem using the word FANTASTIC was, in a word, FIERCE and FEARLESS.

Comment of the day…

Justi says:

Kiera is Fanfuckingtastic!

We were lucky enough to have another acrostic poem today, written by lovely Lori. Once again, she chronicled the gut wrenching, impossible realities of this disease; and she did it so eloquently and honestly.

Comment of the day….

Lolly says:

Lori fooking fantastic fooking poem telling it just like it is, you’ve learned from the best.

Love it

Lollyxoxox

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This is a FABULOUS organization. If you aren’t participating in their thyroid cancer support forum, you should be. And, we are so proud to be partnered with this wonderful organization.

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