‘Column’ Archives
Flying With Broken Wings: Long-distance Travel – Minimizing Your Stress and Maximizing Your Comfort
My first ever long-distance trip was at age 18 when I was studying languages at the University of Bath and selling popcorn at one of the local cinemas, which has since closed down. It [Read] | 9 responses.
Chronic Snarkopolist: Medical Debtfetti
Please welcome Melissa Travis! Melissa is one of our new columnists. She also happens to be a comedy writer contending with chronic and multiple autoimmune conditions, and cancer. [Read] | 23 responses.
Fat Thigh-roid Woes: How Did I Gland Here?!
Please welcome Nicole Wells, one of our new columnists. Nicole's column is about Graves' disease, symptoms, symptoms management, health insurance issues, hyperthyroid issues, and much [Read] | 19 responses.
How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Heard of ‘Meatless Monday’? How about ‘Wheatless Wednesday’ or ‘Soy-less Sunday’?
Meatless Monday is a nationwide (American) initiative brought to us by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which encourages consumers to make meat-free choices each Monday, in [Read] | 2 responses.
How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: More Thyroid Hormone, Please!: How To Get More Iodine Into Your Diet
Depending on your disease and condition — whether hypo or hyper; autoimmune, cancer, nodules, goiter; active or in remission — you may be interested in getting more iodine in your [Read] | 21 responses.
How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Finding Local Organic (Affordable) Produce
Stopping by my local farmer's market is now a weekly ritual for me. This isn't just because I want to support my local economy and farmers (people who care about healthy food and [Read] | 10 responses.
Flying With Broken Wings: Learning To Love Ourselves
(Written by, Sarah Downing: Editor, "Flying with Broken Wings", Dear Thyroid) When a chronic illness such as thyroid disease and/or thyroid cancer strikes you down, it changes the way [Read] | 30 responses.
Life Redefined: Keep Your Spirit Fingers to Yourself
When cancer is the topic of discussion, the conversation tends to turn awkward in about two seconds. Cancer is such a fear-invoking word that when we hear it, especially when it's [Read] | 26 responses.
Flying With Broken Wings: Butterflies and Phoenixes
I first stumbled across Dear Thyroid on New Year’s Eve of 2009 when I was reading Mary Shomon’s www.thyroid.about.com website and this website has undoubtedly been the dawn of a new [Read] | 25 responses.
How To Kick Your Thyroid’s Ass: Is Good Health Free? And, The Chemical-Free-Life Challenge!
For me, an important part of gaining more wellness has been examining my health and medicine paradigm and dissecting it for what it is. I have come face to face with the reality that [Read] | 14 responses.