Posts Tagged ‘Thyroidectomies’
Hey Shemndo, Goit On This
Dear Doctor Endo Man, So I screw up the courage last week to actually mention how I’ve really been feeling ever since my thyroidectomy in 2002 and not sweep it under the carpet. [Read] | 6 responses.
Hope from a Chrysalis
Dear Thyroid, They took you away from me. I mourn my good health, of which you held the key. So little did they offer, a small pill. Both of us forever changed. Everyday holds a [Read] | 20 responses.
Thyme For Literary Healing: Forced Reinvention’s Impact on Thyroid Patients, Their Families and Friends
As thyroid patients, we are forced into reinventions, mentally and physically. Our minds are gifted with octopus tentacles lacerating our craniums and rearranging our memories or [Read] | 8 responses.
Torn Away from Me, I Still Bear your Scars
Dear Thyroid, We broke up two years ago, and I still have the scars. I didn't believe you were bad for me, everyone said that you were. I kept you around for a while not wanting to [Read] | 11 responses.
Volcanoes and Pharmaceutical Synthroid Reliance
(Guest Post, Written by, Michelle) With all the travelers being stranded in different countries due to the volcano eruption this last week, it got me wondering about travelling with [Read] | 27 responses.
Saved By Children’s Books After the Experts Failed
(Written by Donna, benign tumors, radiation exposure) Dear Thyroid, You never had a chance, did you, poor thing. When I was a baby, I had enlarged sinuses, and the treatment for [Read] | 13 responses.
Dr. Kuppersmith, ENT, Specializing in Thyroidectomies, A New Type Of Surgery For Thyroid Patients
Dear Thyroid, It is dreadful enough that you make me feel bad when you are not reliably making the right amount of hormone, BUT when my doctor tells me that you have a growth that may [Read] | 28 responses.
Feeling Hot In Your Absence
(Written by Monica, Thyroidectomy and Lupus Patient) Dear MT (Missing Thyroid), It has been six months since you were suddenly taken from me. There was nothing wrong with you [Read] | 18 responses.
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
(Written by Kelsey Spellman, Thyroidectomy caused by benign nodules) Dear Thyroid, You're a sneaky little gland, you know that? You're so sneaky; I didn't even really know who you [Read] | 24 responses.
No love lost
(Written by LC, thyroidectomy patient) Dear Dead Thyroid, If I had not had you cut out, would you have begun to be kind?, I think not. All that is left of your life in my [Read] | 28 responses.