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What Awareness for Thyroid Cancer Means to Me

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:48 +0000

Dear Thyroid. Why doesn’t anyone know about you? When the surgeons removed you from my body, they told me you were 5 centimeters long. That’s 2 inches – smaller than my pinky finger – and 1 cm was taken up by papillary thyroid cancer. You were so tiny, and yet you were in charge of my body temperature, [...]

The Best Thing I Never Had

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:00:24 +0000

Listening to Beyonce belt these lyrics out in this song would make one typically think of a relationship gone wrong. However this song reminds me of a gland most people do not think about, or even know about, until something goes wrong…. I was 14 when I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I visited my [...]

Contest Entry Three, Why Butterflies are Important in my Life

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:00:15 +0000

My grandmother was always a huge fan of the color lavender and butterflies. When I was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer, we didn’t want to tell her at first because she would have been crushed. She was so insightful, she knew something was wrong and prayed everyday that her first born granddaughter would be cancer free. [...]

From Hate to Love, An Imperfect ThyMarriage

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:00:34 +0000

Dear Thyroid, We only have a few short hours left together. It’s strange, I have cursed you for the last 18 months of my life, and today I feel I need to thank you. Thank you, dear thyroid, for the last 33 years. Thank you for keeping me warm as I skated on the backyard [...]

Da-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na, Bat Thyroid

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:00:14 +0000

Dear Thyroid, So busted! In 2009, I had an MRI of my cervical spine to investigate a mild case of a wonderful little autoimmune disease called ankylosing spondylitis. Turns out, my spine was fine, but the radiologist caught you red-handed, sneaking around with that dirty nodule. Without the MRI I would have never known you [...]

Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month, September 2011

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:00:08 +0000

This is a special month, it’s all about thyroid cancer awareness. We are doing quite in honor of this month. One of the things we are doing is seeking submissions from survivors, patients and advocates that want to cross-post, cross-promote and co-mingle traffic to achieve a greater good – THYROID CANCER AWARENESS! We are seeking: [...]

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 [...]

No More Thyroid Cancer, RIGHT MOM?

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:00:44 +0000

Dear Thyroid, Being a Mother is and always will be the best gift that I received from you! My little girl, my little Diva, my pride and joy is scared of you. She has nightmares and when I have a doctor’s appointment she freaks out. She is only three and you have made her life [...]

A Whisper. A Word Cancer

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:00:24 +0000

Dear Thyroid: On November 5th 2010 (almost 8months now), I went in for a partial thyroidectomy, and came out with a complete thyroidectomy and with my surgeon’s words on my ear “Karla you did wonderful but we had to take it all out, because it was Cancer”. I was pretty sedated when he told me [...]