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Acrostic Poetry for Thyroid Awareness Month

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:30:28 +0000

Check Your Neck Could be that thyroid, causing you jip Hyper or Hypo, up and down dip Energy levels that feel so depleted Crying for no reason, feeling defeated Knowledge is power so check you Neck You seem out of control, have no explanation Obesity taking over with Atrial Fibrillation. Under weight, looking like you’ve not been fed [...]

Dear Ann Glanders: Week of 10/3/2011

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:00:00 +0000

BE and STAY A PROACTIVE PATIENT….. One part of being a proactive patient is finding others who have similar situations so I say, “Good for you!” If you are reading this, that means you are utilizing one of your resources by being at DearThyroid.org. Having a health issue can truly be overwhelming, therefore any [...]

Thy-story – An Open Letter To My OB/GYN

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:00:50 +0000

Dr. “Jerkface”, You may not remember me, since we only spoke in your office for ten or fifteen minutes a few months ago, but my name is Kelly Sangree. I came to the “Lady Parts” practice with complaints of amenorrhea, weight gain, sluggishness, fatigue, depression, a noticeable goiter, and muscle pain. A colleague of yours [...]

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, You Have Made Me Suffer and Stolen My Life

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:00:30 +0000

Dear Thyroid, Oh Thyroid… Where were your shining numbers when I lost almost all my hair? When I had so many bald spots that I had to wear a hat, and I hate hats. But you wouldn’t take it all, just enough to help me feel that much less human. Where were your numbers when [...]

Next week is POETRY week!

Joanna Isbill — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:00:22 +0000

Next week is poetry week on Dear Thyroid and we’re asking all of you to start writing some thylicious poems. Send us your Dear Thyroid acrostic poems, haikus (thykus, if you will), limericks, sonnets, free verse…whatever type of poem you feel inspired to write. The topic is completely up to you, but here are some [...]

Do Any of you Have a Thyroid Disease or Cancer as a Result of Living in Germany Post Chernobyl?

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:12:36 +0000

It still amazes me to think back to my younger days, I had so much going on back then. I was pregnant with my second child, a boy. My husband was on Active Duty in the Air Force. We had gotten a new assignment in Germany. I had been stationed there myself a few years [...]

It’s on like Donkey Kong

Dear Thyroid — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:00:53 +0000

Dear Thyroid: Put your game face on because I’m coming out swinging! In a mere nine days you and I will battle to the death! Standing ready in my corner is a top-notched ENT surgeon and the best Endo in all of Indy! So, as I throw back another SSKI-laced orange juice, know that I am [...]

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 [...]

Thyroid Disease is your Gift to My Sixteen Year Old Self?

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:00:09 +0000

Dear Thyroid; Why must you ruin my life at my young age of 16? You are so unpredictable know matter what dosage I take, you never seem to like it. I have lost so much because of you these last 2 years, because you have given me terrible acne and caused me to gain 30 [...]