#thyro

isolation was mostly fine, towards the end of the night I had a moment but I wrote it all out and took a long shower and fell asleep w/ lavender oil in my diffuser. the scan was not bad at all, I fucking hate MRIs but it was nothing like that thank god and it went by pretty fast.

doing a bunch of stuff to find out if there's any cancer left in my body. on steroids to protect my eyes during radiation, and on a crazy diet to prep for said radiation...then I get 2 injections to trick my body into thinking my synthetic thyroid hormones aren't working, then i'll be radioactive, then i'll get my full-body scan and see what's up!!!!

I slept almost completely through the night and I feel like it helped so much. I'm still having vocal fatigue but eating has gotten soooo much easier as has moving around in general!!! still have a long way to go but I was able to shower w/out help today even though it took me forever 😭 also started experiencing some spotting and breaking out on my chest, prob from a combo of stress and hormonal fluctuations.

there's these things called parathyroids that sit behind the thyroid, but apparently during my surgery they discovered that one of them was encapsulated inside my thyroid somehow (?!) so they had to take it out, like rearrange it and put it back in 🥴 so I guess the surgery took much longer than they anticipated, thats prob why I had so much more pain than I expected.

I've been putting arnicare on my bruises (from IV & blood tests), icepack on my neck a couple times a day, drinking a lot of water and eating a lot of chocolate ice cream lmao. I'm still nervous to find out my biopsy results but today, overall, I'm feeling a lot more encouraged about healing and going forward than I did yesterday. tomorrow I'll start taking a pill that will supply me with all of the things my thyroid used to for the rest of my life, which is wild. I'm sure adjusting to that will be a process, especially if cancer treatment is added to the mix, but I know I can get through it.