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My Thyroid’s Affair With Cancer

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:00:36 +0000

Dearest Thyroid, Even though I know our separation was inevitable. It still hurts to have you gone. It hurts me to know that you allowed something else to come between us. To separate us when we were working so perfectly together. I am angry that you helped it hide inside my neck and grow without [...]

Lights, Tunnel, Action

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:10:49 +0000

Dear Thyroid, In all honesty, I’d never heard of you or knew what you were capable of until I was 19. I’d twisted my neck one day, and my neck became swollen. The doctor checked my neck over, called in another doctor to check my neck over, and left it at that. This was when I was 15. Four [...]

Breaking Up Is Never Easy To Do, Especially After 27-Years Together

Dear Thyroid — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:08:51 +0000

Dear Thyroid, First I would like to say I’m sorry. I miss you. We had about 27 good years together years I took for granted. I am so sorry you have been caught in up in what has been the worst time in my life. Did you feel my stress when my father was in [...]

Thyeuology

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:17:04 +0000

(Written by, Robs, Thyroid Cancer Survivor) We are all here today to pay our respects to a most formidable foe. An individual who has penetrated every aspect of my life. It has been both my burden, and my constant companion. It is the proximate cause for a great deal of pain and suffering, but it [...]

Twice In Your Eyes, Thyroid Cancer

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:29:08 +0000

Written by Sara Broers, Two Time Thyroid Cancer Survivor Dear Thyroid: Just recently have I been forced to recall that you are no longer with, me. , You have sure wreaked a lot of havoc in my life over the past 23 years. , Just recently, my, TSH, levels are “out of, wack” AGAIN. , [...]

Thyflections

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:36:28 +0000

Written by Chris P – Thyroid Cancer Patient Dear Thyroid, How do I hate thee?, Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the flab and breadth and weight My waistline has reached, and feeling not right, For loosing hair, losing, sleep because I can’t count sheep. I hate thee to the level [...]

Punching Cancer In The Throat

Dear Thyroid — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:51:01 +0000

Written by Joanna, Thyroid Cancer Patient Dear Thyroid Cancer, You tried to steal my focus. I still think about you, but I’m not consumed by you. You entered my dreams to try to make me fear even sleep. You lost. Thanks to Zoloft, my dreams are now too weird to bear any [...]

Slicing My Gland

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:19:59 +0000

Written by, Hungry for TSH, Thyroid Cancer patient Dearly departed/excised Thyroid: I am writing you from the caverns of my treatment… For the some 17 years you served me *well*, you were a great friend– always there to boost my metabolism, keep me warm and sane, and as a boon when I ate too much [...]

The Thing with the Fish…. Or Thyfish Cravings

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:46:48 +0000

Dear Thyroid So yesterday I went out and had Sushi. Lots of Sushi!!, Lots of Fish and scaly and crusty sea creatures. Definitely iodine overdosed, one could say. – Thanks to you, Dear Thyroid, – or more specifically ‘lack’ of you and your functions -, I had to be on this, [...]

You Are A Thyrocious, Vile Thyroid, Shame On You

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:03:17 +0000

Dear Thyroid; This is why I hate you and miss you at the same time. At one point in my life, while I still had you, I was an insulin-dependent diabetic. You helped me to lose the weight and I was able to stop using the needles. Life was good, wasn’t it thyroid? We were [...]