Cancer- A deal Breaker?

My recent diagnosis of thyroid cancer has come as quite a shock.  I was honestly expecting the doctor to say my incision was healing great, all results came back benign and now lets start replacement hormone. However he actually had the guts to say, "It was cancerous." How dare he!?!?!

I have papillary thyroid cancer. Which is the kind you want to have. :) I don't know if you can actually "want to have" it, but if you have to have the big C word. This is a good one to get. It was caught early through a yearly doctor visit, hasn't spread and is very treatable! That is great news. So the deal is, I get all the life lessons that come along with having cancer, but not all the total scariness. Yes, a bit scary to think about but it really could be so much worse.

One of the things that worried me was that we would not be eligible to adopt now that we had a cancer diagnosis. After I realized my prognosis was very good that thought really gave me the worst feeling.

I called our case worker and broke the bad news to her. Waiting to hear what she had to say, I was hoping for the best but ready for the worst. She is really so nice, worried about me, how is the family, how am I feeling. Ya, Ya, Ya..... I was thinking. Is it a deal breaker?

She said that our timing was perfect (we all know that is God's perfect timing). Not so very long ago all cancer diagnosis would immediatly make a family ineligible until there was 10 years of remission. However, now there is one that they look at on a case by case basis. What is the ONE, you ask? Yes, it is mine. Thyroid Cancer. It is the one kind a potential adoptive parent can get and not be immediatly thrown out of the program. Praise the Lord!!

After all my radiation we have to have the doctors fill out some papers and write some letters, and as long as I have a clean bill of health and a good prognosis, things should be fine. We are blessed that we are not super close to the top of the waiting list because we couldn't get a referral until all treatment was done and all paperwork complete. I got this at the best time, we should have no trouble having all this done before it is our turn to know which little girl is ours.

Thanks for prayers; they are already working in regard to our adoption. I am feeling good. I just am getting low on energy because I have no thyroid hormones at the moment. So that's exciting......get to gain weight and have not energy. Yuck! :(  Hoping by beginning of August to be totally cancer free, get on replacement hormone, shed a few pounds and have enough energy to chase my kiddos around.