Dear Thyroid™ � thyroid literary support

Hashimoto’s, How Much More of ME do you Expect?

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:14:06 +0000

Dear Thyroid, I need you and you have let me down!! You have made me sicker then I have ever new was possible… You have compromised my health, my life, my sole and my mind… I have never felt this bad, you have made me tired and unable to perform my daily tasks at times, [...]

If Only I was Struck In A Day

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:07:26 +0000

I woke up one mornin’ with an anchor on my head and a blurrin’ I was slurring my speech, like a drunk, ‘cept I’ll give up on talking. It’s not funny, it’s boring. Where am I going? What was I saying? Did you tap me on the shoulder? Oh, you’ve already gone. I’m learning [...]

Dear Thyroid, I Am Begging You!

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:07:48 +0000

Dear Thyroid, Please let me heal! Sometimes I hate you. Sometimes I am too tired to hate you. Sometimes we get along just fine. I know you like to run low, and I can cope with that. I can even cope when you spike high. I can get through it, I know it will get [...]

Not many people want to take advice from a fat, exhausted, balding woman

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:00:34 +0000

Dear Thyroid, I have much to thank you for… The things I want to thank you for aren’t usually viewed as good skills to have. However, since it is all I have, I am learning to be appreciative. Thank you for making me the “brave” one of my friends who tries every hair color in [...]

Thyroid Diva Swan Dive

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:00:57 +0000

Goodbye. It’s been an interesting life with you, far too interesting for most of the time, and although things started out well you’ve been destroying me one way or another for the past 6 years. It was the T3 bombs in the brain that were the worst. I could cope with the palpitations, I hardly [...]

ABOUNDING STRENGTH

Dear Thyroid — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:00:05 +0000

I bet most do not know A body could be in pain 24/7 And not just in one place But from head to toe The dosage of medication needed To take the edge off this type of pain Would put a person in a comatose state. To endure and bear such pain Is finding that [...]

In The Storm

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:00:29 +0000

Life can turn grey, dark and hazy All seems so gloomy Feels like waves are crashing down Body feeling like an old rickety boat Trying hard to function and stay together As the diseases wreak havoc Rocking to and fro on the waves from the storm This storm that is now what I know as life. [...]

BRING IT for Thyroid Awareness Month

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:00:54 +0000

Thyroid Awareness Month is upon us, along with a NEW YEAR. Can you believe it’s 2011?! We’ve already lived, and I do mean lived a decade of 2010. Mary Shomon wrote a fantastic piece called “The Top Ten Stories Affecting Thyroid Patients in the Decade from 2000-2009“. Not only is it incredibly INSPIRING, it highlights [...]

THY-VOID

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:00:27 +0000

You left me feeling such a huge void Taking away so much of me My life has changed tremendously My body has morphed from head to toe Stranger in the mirror I do not know The old me has been stripped away Forever leaving such a deep dark hole Where does this leave me now [...]

Thy-Cancan…Can’t?

Joanna Isbill — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:00:10 +0000

Dear Thyroid Cancer, Somebody once wrote a poem about you. Well, not just you; you and all your relatives. The name of the poem is “What Cancer Cannot Do.” I have received copies of this poem from multiple people since you came into my life. At first, I was so inspired by this poem. It [...]