modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:11:42 +0000 (UTC),
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> Guy can't stop telling me how good the stew was tonight. It's almost
>>>>>>>> like "a sloppier version of stroganoff", he says, and I agree.
>> Sounds wonderful.
>>
>>> Hee! Not yet. I find out when that will be on Tuesday. I'm guessing
>>> April. They usually give you a couple months to recover from surgery
>>> and go hypothyroid first.
>> I have read that everything went well with your medical encounter,
>> and I'm very happy for that.
>>
> I'll second Steve's emotion.

Thank you both!

> I had a partial thyroidectomy on my 14th birthday bacause of a
> precancerous lump. I had a hellacious sore throat for a while, and I
> still have a scar across my throat. But that was almost 44 years ago,
> and I'm pretty much okay today. Except for the bitter resentment of
> those who conspired to ruin my 14th birthday. They will pay some day.

Hee! I just refuse to let them mess with my trip in April to see my ill
mother. They can screw themselves if they think I'm going to reschedule
that in order to be radioactive. :-)

> Back in the neolithic era when my diagnosis was done, they gave me a
> coctail containing a radioactive iodine isotope so they could get an
> X-ray image of the lump and determine its size and location. It was
> cool to tell my friends at school that I had a radioactive thyroid
> gland. (This was during the "duck and cover" days of the cold war,
> and anything to do with radiation was fraught with peril.)

Hee! I told James about the whole thing I'm going to have to do, and I
was talking about taking radioactive iodine. He said "Maybe you'll have
the proportional size and strength of the Morton salt girl!" I envision
my superhero costume having an umbrella involved somehow.

>
> Be well, Serene.

Thank you, Michael.

Serene

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