FINALLY on September 16th at 7:45 pm we got some good news! After 3 neck biopsies with the most recent, and most invasive, this past Friday we have good news! What is it you ask? Well, it was so good I had to put on my Wonder Woman toppers in celebration! The most recent biopsy of the left side of my neck showed ‘No Malignant Cancer Cells’!! All three of the enlarged lymph nodes on the left are CANCER FREE.
WAIT! Why is she so excited? Doesn’t she still have cancer? I am so confused!
Yes, I still have Papillary Thyroid Cancer on the right side of my neck even with having no thyroid which was removed 12 years ago. I know this. However, this most recent news means so very many good things such as:
1- Length of surgery will be much less and will only be on one side of my neck.
2- The cancer nodes on the right are more easily accessible. The three enlarged nodes on the left were under muscle and near large veins.
3- Recuperation while still going to be very difficult based on health factors will still be less with only one side affected.
So let me take a quick pause to change my toppers on my glasses….
There! I changed to ‘8-Bit Boos’ which not only matches my dress and the season yet also my mood. See I love, love, love Autumn. (Side note- my husband forbids the word fall as I am very clumsy, haha!) Yet I love pumpkins, pumpkin spice, sunflowers, crisp air when you wake in the morning, Halloween all of it.
Now with this good news I feel I have a shot at beating this cancer. I will be honest, this past week prior to hearing the good news I was feeling very beaten down and very depressed. All the ‘What Ifs’ were getting to me. Unfortunately this led to many tears and fibromyalgia flares. Trying to recuperate with the stress was exhausting. Now I can relax just a bit and focus on healing this week before I face the reality again of all that remains such as:
1- Figuring out my disability insurance for time off work.
2- Making my list of questions for when I meet with the surgeon on 10/2.
3- Uploading my will info to Kaiser giving medical control to my husband when I am in surgery as well as documenting my ‘what if’ desires.
4- Prepping excellent therapy lessons, squeezing in as much as I can before I leave for surgery.
Yet all that can wait. The rest of today will be playing Animal Crossing New Horizons on my TV (I hooked my switch up to it) and finishing reading and reviewing an ARC book I signed up for called ‘Hot Four Teacher’, haha! Then tonight a movie and maybe homemade popcorn with my husband Charlie.
HAVE A HAPPY BEGINNING OF FALL EVERYONE!
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