Going for the Big Cure

Have not posted in awhile. Thought, again, might just stop altogether as needs to be a constant thing and I am so irregular. Also, so much going on in my life can not think of how to write about it. Started with the 750Words site to do my morning pages and do like it. Abit of a bug with my browser but I have a good work around now. Takes a lot less time than by hand and there is no evidence lying around of what I have written. I like the privacy factor! 

My medical team has decided it would be best for me to take the radiation treatment therapy and  I will be doing that in two weeks. Starting this Monday I start a two week low iodine diet and I am sure will be posting about that regularly here as it sounds worse than the treatment itself! I have pasted the blurb about my treatment here as I found it to be the best description of what is going on. Plus it is pretty positive so makes me feel better when I reread it! OK, on to find SOMETHING I will be able to eat next two weeks other than just plain rice and veggies ;-)

 From the Endocrineweb

The Use of Radioactive Iodine Post-Operatively

Thyroid cells are unique in that they have the cellular mechanism to absorb iodine. The iodine is used by thyroid cells to make thyroid hormone. No other cell in the body can absorb or concentrate iodine. Physicians can take advantage of this fact and give radioactive iodine to patients with thyroid cancer. There are several types of radioactive iodine, with one type being toxic to cells. Papillary cancer cells absorb iodine and therefore they can be targeted for death by giving the toxic isotope (I-131). Once again, not everybody with papillary thyroid cancer needs this therapy, but those with larger tumors, spread to lymph nodes or other areas, tumors which appear aggressive microscopically, and older patients may benefit from this therapy. This is extremely individualized and no recommendations are being made here or elsewhere on this web site...too many variables are involved. But, this is an extremely effective type of "chemotherapy" will little or no potential down-sides (no hair loss, nausea, weight loss, etc.).