Stacy's Cancer Blog
Staying Positive
I am a positive person by nature, but these last few weeks have been trying. I had my doctors appointment last month. I went in for an ultra sound and blood work. They are concerned about a few lymph nodes that seem to be changing from the last ultra sound. Also, the blood work did not come back good. The doctor wants to wait until June and see if the iodine will do its job. In the meantime, she changed my medication in hopes that it will help make me less tired and hopefully make me feel like my old self.
On the positive side, I am truly blessed by my support team, my faith, and the amazing posts that I read on this blog. Thank you!
Hi Stacy,
I know how hard it is to stay positive when everything around you is in constant change and you doubt if it will ever be the same. As if you don’t know by now everything associated with this disease and its aftermath is a waiting game. Your diagnosis date came about 2 years after mine. I can say, that as I near the 3 year mark the waiting gets to be less stressful. . . but you still get to wait for that next appointment. . . to see if there is another med change. It took over 18 months for me to get my thyroid replacement medicine in place and a constant / same dose. As we age, this will most likely change several more times. I don’t mean for this to sound gloomy, but life – good and not so good is in a constant state of change, I just think we are more aware of it now.
Waiting to see how your body reacts to the RAI treatment is good – it does take time for it to do it’s work, and hopefully you will turn out the good report with the lymph nodes and all you will have from this point is the medicine tweaks. It takes several weeks each time the medicine is changed to get the full effect through your body.
Keep your chin up, hugs to you.
-Kathy
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