Like Daughter, Like Mother: Our Thyroid Cancer Journey
Behind the Blog
Adelina is a full-time wife, mother, practice manager, and medical transcriptionist. After receiving an ultrasound and countless biopsies, she was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer on December 11, 2009. She successfully underwent surgery on December 29, 2009, and had her first radioactive iodine treatment in February 2010. Following treatment, Adelina now sees her doctor once a year for follow-up. She has been doing well, and refuses to let cancer slow her down.
Dori is 26 years old. She was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer at the age of 17 on June 1, 2006, just three days prior to her high school graduation. Dori endured two radioactive iodine treatments and two surgeries to remove her complete thyroid and 39 total lymph nodes from her neck. She is now under close watch by her doctors, and only time will tell if the cancer stays at bay.
I found your blogs through Dori on Planet Cancer (we friended each other!). Been thinking of you in your post-op period, hope you're continuing to heal well. My surgery was on Dec. 14. That's neat you're a practice manager for an internist. I'm a doctor, and I love my practice manager too. ;) I'll be thinking of your daughter Janina also for her surgery on Tuesday. It helps for me to be able to "talk" to others going through similar struggles too. :)
-Kim