You Must be Kidding me!?!?!?!

Well, here is the latest on my journey with thyroid cancer. I have been on a low iodine diet with plans to take my radiation/iodine pill on July 3.

Kathy, the nice onocology nurse, called and said that apparently they (the nations radation/iodine people) are not making the iodine during the week of 4th of July so I wouldn't be able to start until the 9th.

However, Dr. Cramer, my doctor, is on vacation that week and the doctor filling in doesn't have the right liscensure to give me that pill.

To push things out even a bit further, the next week we are going to Hawaii for a wedding, so I won't do treatment that week. We talked about going to Medford to get the treament, but they can't get me in until this same week that we are in Hawaii.

So the deal is, I have been without thryoid hormone for just about a month and can't have treatment for another month. I have very limitied, if any, options. The best one we have come up with is that Dr. Cramer said "so she doesn't feel like shit" on her vacation, start thyroid hormone so I have some energy while on our trip. Then when I come back go off the thyroid medicine, start the low iodine diet and get treatment the start of August.

That makes my entire summer about cancer in one way or another. I was really looking forward to Hawaii being my celebration trip because I was done with my treatment. In the big picture, what do I have to hang my head about? I could complain that I am going to Hawaii? I could complain that I have a treatment available? In perspective this is just a bump in the road, but not a bump I am thrilled about.

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9

We all know life is crazy, and I too know that things could be so much worse. So this is an inconvience that I will live with. Still appreciate your prayers. Thankful for all of them thus far.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:11-13