Dear Thyroid™ � thyroid patient support

I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:06 +0000

Right now I feel sick, I’m sweating up a storm, my shoulders feel like someone hit them with a two by four, the goiter on my neck feels hard and makes me cough, and my head throbs. I’ve been laying in bed, just laying in pain, I have no energy to move, no appetite to [...]

Family Literary Campaign

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:00:51 +0000

On Facebook yesterday, one of the questions we asked was “How has your disease affected your relationship with your family?” So far, we’ve received close to 100 responses from patients and families. You have no idea how proud of everyone we are. The patient experience and the family experience might not be worlds apart. Perhaps [...]

If You Listen, Dear Doctor, Here is What’s in it For You

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:00:46 +0000

Dear Endocrinologist Once again I will be visiting you today. Me and my notebook with all my questions and fears. I will be honest, Dr., I am pretty done. And tired. Always tired. I want you to hear me so badly. When I tell you the things that are happening now; the atrial fibrillation, the [...]

To Know You is to Hate You

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:00:19 +0000

Dear Thyroid, Why do you choose how I sleep or when I have pain? I am so tired of being tired, with soreness when I walk a good distance. My doctors say I’m fine. You control my world and my temperature, so I perspire when I shouldn’t. You make it hard to get through a [...]

For 30 Years You have Tortured Me, Thyroid; And Now…

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:00:27 +0000

Dear (butterfly) Thyroid, Why do you do this to us? To me, to the people here in this group, and to any other person undiagnosed? All we ever did was look after you. Your once beautiful pinkness has now turned to gray. Your wings are spreading yet it feels, and looks, like the cocoon is [...]

Why Me?

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:46:53 +0000

Dear Thyroid, Why do you choose how sleep or when I have pain? I am so tired of being tired, in soreness when I walk a distance. My doctors say I’m fine. You control my world when I heat outside you make perspire. You make it hard to get through a day. You make hard [...]

Thyme For Literary Healing: I Just Knew

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:40:36 +0000

I Just Knew, is a literary discussion I would love for us to have today about knowing something was/is awry and how you managed that emotional transaction: What were your initial symptoms? Did you ignore it at first, thinking it would pass? Did you feel like a freak? Were you scared? Did you start doing [...]

Thyme For Literary Healing: The Ultimate Cure For Thyroid Diseases and Thyroid Cancers

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:41:09 +0000

In today’s Literary Healing, we are going to discuss The Ultimate Cure for Thyroid Diseases and Thyroid Cancers, as YOU envision it to be. If you envisioned a cure, what would it be comprised of? Would it come in the form of a shot or a vaccine, or something entirely different? What would the ‘cure’ [...]

Here A Thywriter, There A Thyrwriter, Everywhere A Thywriterly Writer

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:21:32 +0000

Much like last week; this week, YOU are going to write a mini Dear Thyroid Letter. The community rallied and wrote such beautiful, heartfelt letters about specific symptoms and or family issues, and so much more, that we wanted to try this again. Let’s put our best literary foot forward and write to our diseases. [...]

Dear Thyroid Meet-Ups And Support: From Kerri Schwartz

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:56:45 +0000

Hello Dear Thyroid!! This is my first post and I am super excited to be a part of such a fantastic organization! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of such an amazing community. I am thrilled to help facilitate and organize Dear Thyroid Meet Ups and support groups. It is so powerful [...]