Dear Thyroid^TM

I couldn’t have asked for a nicer day for our meet-up — the San Antonio rain of the past few days had let-up enough and granted us a sunny, windy afternoon; just perfect for coffee and chatting.

There were six of us total — Lynn, Kristin (and her five-month-old), Greg (not pictured), Bee, and I (Liz).  We met at the Little Aussie Bakery, which is actually more of a cafe, with a full lunch and dessert menu — all gluten-free.  (Our table ordered vegetable soup with GF bread, veggie lasagna with garlic bread, and cookies and cake to take home.)  This location definitely set the tone for the meet-up in the most wonderful way.  Three of us are already gluten-free, and the other two said they’re very familiar with the diet.  We talked food and other lifestyle choices we’re making to work towards wellness, even though only two of us have thyroid histories.

We also dished environmental toxins (endocrine disruptors), contaminated vs. clean drinking water, family histories of disease and genetic predispositions, our food supply, and of course, Dear Thyroid.  Overall, the meet-up was a positive, uplifting two hours with people all equally interested in working towards more wellness, whichever way works best for them.

Just for today, in honor of our new site launch and in the interest of continuing to reach out to each other in as many ways as possible, we wanted to post tweet-ups. Tomorrow, we will resume posting letters, of course. By the by, have you sent us a letter lately? Thought about writing one? Go for it! Email them to submissions@dearthyroid.com.

Here’s a question for you: what maybe, possibly, could ever match the amazing community and support we’ve got going on right here at Dear Thyroid? If your first answer would be “nothing”, then think again!  The only thing that could compete with the level of honesty and awesomeness is, actually, a Dear Thyroid Tweet-Up! Yes, a Tweet-Up.

For those of you not familiar with Tweet-Ups, they are, essentially, meet-ups.  You know, groups of Dear Thyroid users meeting up for coffee or dinner or drinks, or whatever other creative and chit-chatty social events we can dream up.  The point is for those of us who normally chat it up via our website to actually meet face-to-face and continue the Dear Thyroid lovefest.

This is open to anyone, no matter where you happen to live. What you’ll do is email us the specifics of the Tweet-Up you have in mind, and we’ll add it to the calendar on our site.  That way, fellow thyroidians from all walks of life and all locations on the planet can check out exactly when and where said Tweet-Up will take place.

But it gets even better!  Once you get all the details together and actually do meet-up with other Dear Thyroid users, we want to see your lovely, smiling faces.  That means, take pictures!  What would be even better is if you take pictures of your Tweet-Up in some Dear Thyroid gear — shirts, sweatshirts, tank tops, etc. We want to see you proudly displaying your thyroid disease for all to see!

Let the Tweet-Ups begin!

Got an Q’s? Email us and let’s get this baby going.

Love,

Dear Thyroid