Dear Thyroid™ � Katie Schwartz

My Love Letter to the Dear Thyroid Team

Katie Schwartz — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:15:58 +0000

The Dear Thyroid Team is comprised of individuals from all walks of life, all over the country. If someone asked me a few years ago if I would have the privilege of working alongside Joanna, Melissa, Dr. Sara Gottfried, Anna Warner, Ann Glanders, Allison Nazarian and Tracy Goldberg, I would have asked, “How would I even [...]

UPDATE: How Far Should You Take Patient Advocacy

Katie Schwartz — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:00:47 +0000

Last week I asked “How far should you take advocacy“. Everyone had a lot of great opinions and advice for all of us. A few more questions were raised about how to advocate for ourselves. This is a learning process, I think. Here’s an update regarding my story as it pertained to the advocacy post: [...]

How Far Should You Take Patient Advocacy

Katie Schwartz — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:00:36 +0000

I once had a CT Scan at Mink Radiology with an iodine IV. When we reached the “Insert IV now” portion of the procedure, while inserting the needle into my vein, something was wrong, it didn’t feel right. I told the technician that he needed to remove the needle immediately and choose a different vein. He didn’t [...]

Chronic Worthlessness

Katie Schwartz — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:00:21 +0000

I wonder how many of us feel chronically worthless and for countless reasons. Do we feel like we let ourselves down when our brains want to run, do and see, but our bodies won’t allow us to? Do we feel we let our families down because our minds and, or bodies don’t feel well enough? [...]

Dear Me, Shortly After Diagnosis

Katie Schwartz — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:00:33 +0000

I was dishing with Joanna regarding an essay I had written a few months after I was diagnosed. As a result, we had a conversation about it and came up with an idea: Let’s go back in time and ask our community to submit literary works they wrote immediately post diagnosis or new works based [...]

What Thyroid Coach, Mary Shomon Can Do For You

Katie Schwartz — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:00:21 +0000

Having benefited from thyroid coaching, I can tell you that it’s the best time and money I’ve ever spent. After 1o-years, I finally reached the coveted ‘in-range’. There I sat for 4 months, now 7 months have passed and I am still ‘in range’. With 4-months under my belt, I was still experiencing symptoms and [...]

Comment Of The Day: June 18, 2010

Katie Schwartz — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:54:17 +0000

Before we kick off today’s comments, I wanted to get a few things off my chest. Thanks for indulging me (Katie), by the way. Collectively, for the past two-years, we have shared our stories via Dear Thyroid Letters, Comments, Rants, Raves and Literary contests. Together, we’ve laughed, cried, celebrated each other’s success, and caught each [...]

Did You Receive Your Thyroid Awareness Bands?

Katie Schwartz — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:54:09 +0000

Hi-de-ho and gland tidings… Okay. We have sent out over 3,000 thyroid awareness bands. Some, not many, a total of 20 were kicked back to us (not bad), and we have re-sent those out. All SASE’s received, we’ve also sent out. However, if the postage was less than what was stated in the Awareness Bands [...]

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles

Katie Schwartz — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:30:09 +0000

Dear, Dear Thyroid Community Members, Liz Schau is no longer with Dear Thyroid. While I am very sorry to see Liz go, I am grateful to her and for everything she’s done for Dear Thyroid. She’s an outstanding individual, a brilliant nutritionist, and writer. I think she’s changed many of our lives for the better. [...]

Martin Bosworth In Memoriam

Katie Schwartz — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:51:13 +0000

Martin Bosworth has died. He was 35-years-old and had hypothyroidism, among other health issues. However, he died of a pulmonary embolism caused by deep vein thrombosis. “Both DVT and PE may be asymptomatic and difficult to detect.” (Cause of death found on his memoriam page.) I met Martin via Mary Shomon. She had written about [...]