Things have been going really well since the operation on April 24th. Recovery from the surgery went as well as possible. After about a week I was feeling much better and getting around. Between the surgery and the radiotherapy I'm not getting any thyroid hormone. This didn't start to affect me too much until last Wednesday (May 10th).
Now I'm feeling it. Today I woke up feeling OK and went to church. It was great to see everyone. I came home helped Sylvie get the meal together then I crashed for the next 3 hours.
On Tuesday the 16th I'm going to the hospital and will be there till Friday afternoon. First up will be a scan to see how my thyroid cell are left and if any of metastasized elsewhere. Once they get a handle on how much is there they'll take me to my room and I'll drink down some iodine 131. The quantity will be depend on what they've found. For the next three days I'll be all by myself as it does its work.
So once this is all done I start taken my thyroid hormones and life will slowly get back to normal.
One of the things that has got me thinking is that healing people of cancer means taking them close to death. In my case its pretty mild. It takes a long time to die from hypothyroidism but there are other more radical treatments that real do take you right to the edge. We have a good friend who went through bone marrow treatment.
There are lots of spiritual applications that I'll let you ponder. I'm just getting ready to be all by myself for three days, which for an extrovert is a little death...
Thanks for your prayers and support during all of this.
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