Category: Surgery and Hospital Treatment

Thyroidectomy, surgery, radioactive iodine (RAI), all the hassle

How do you find out you have cancer (and how I discovered mine)

06/03/2017

We’ve all done it. We’ve felt unwell, then we’ve tried to structure all the symptoms we were feeling. When you put it on Google, results were: cancer. Or pregnancy. Even though Google rarely gives you a reliable diagnose and we all know we have to stop doing it, we don’t. I know it, I still do it. 2.5 million people in the … More How do you find out you have cancer (and how I discovered mine)

I had cancer (and we need to talk about it)

30/01/2017

I’m 29 years old. I had thyroid cancer. It was removed a couple of months ago, together with my entire thyroid and a couple of limph nodes, in two surgeries last October/November. Then the remaining tissues are being completely destroyed right now – I write from the hospital room. Why am I saying this? It’s because we need to talk … More I had cancer (and we need to talk about it)