A patient’s thyroid cancer story about diagnosis and surgery
In this episode we hear Lorrie describe the following:
- Papillary thyroid cancer
- Long delayed pathology results
- Graves’ disease
- Balancing Graves’ disease and a thyroid cancer diagnosis
- Emotional roller coaster of feeling optimistic and other days of sadness.
- The feelings and emotions of related to a cancer diagnosis
- Being careful about the information shared on the Internet and potential negativity
- Support network and family
- Nodule size was 1.1 cm, but with history of Graves’ disease, she decided to forego active surveillance
- The day of surgery and overnight in hospital
- The radioactive iodine decision
- Lymph node removal
- Traveling 4 hours to surgery center
- T4 dosage
- Change in life perspective
- Slowing down while making decisions post-diagnosis
- Acupuncture
- Multiple opinions pre-surgery
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