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Thyroid cancer in elderly

cynthiag117
  • By cynthiag117 · Posted 7:39 am
  • Discussion in Treatment · 0 replies
  • My mother had her thyroid removed 1 month ago. Diagnosis of Pappillary Thyroid Cancer. Surgeon had said the pathology report had said turmor was contained to thyroid. Perhaps stage 3 but final staging ...

Went to Doc today

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · New reply August 21, 2008
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • Well, I went to the Doc today, first time in a long time... I know, I know, I should have gone a long time ago... bad me. The doc refilled my presecriptions (Thank the Goddess that he refilled my vicodin ...

Went to State for assistance

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · New reply August 19, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • Well, I finished my appl for State Assistance and sat/stood/walked, etc... there for 3 hours. Now it hurts like *#&@*# !!! The 'good news' is that I got a 'Pending Medical' slip so I could go see a doctor ...

Back to Day-to-Day Stuff

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · New reply August 19, 2008
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • Well I thought that I was on the mend from the other day, but alas, I was wrong... or it's just the day to day stuff getting to me again. My hips are bad today. My left side is the weakest, thanks to ...

My First Journal

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · New reply August 18, 2008
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • Well, I'm an idiot!!! First of all, I wanted to spend time with my husband... how silly of me :). My husband is a drummer, and a courier. We spent the day together, and then decided that I would go with ...

Patience

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · Posted August 17, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Well, really haven't been out of bed much since we got home this morning. The pain has mostly subsided, but I haven't really done anything either. I am still having muscle spasms, although they are not ...

Pain with Tigger thoughts!

Morse
  • By Morse · Posted August 16, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Hey there... I'm hurting so bad this morning in so many different places! I had my braces put on last Tuesday and now I have three spots in my mouth that are nearly raw and they are killing me... I have ...

It is a Tigger day!!

Morse
  • By Morse · New reply August 5, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • Hey there... ok... it has been a weird last month... I went to Phoenix and Las Vegas for a week and that was a great experience... I got to meet Wayne Brady... I also saw his show (we sat front row center ...

need info on tracheotomy

cynthiag117
  • By cynthiag117 · New reply August 1, 2008
  • Discussion in Family and friends · 2 replies
  • my mom had her thyroid removed and due to complications, was given a tracheotomy. The care is overwhelming. I don't know how she can live independently again. Does anyone have any suggestions ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply July 30, 2008
  • Journal · 79 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

Just a Hello From Dove

Dove
  • By Dove · New reply July 23, 2008
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • Hi everyone I am sorry I have not been able to post to all of you individually. I have been busy with summer things and trying to keep my mind on other things. I did get a surprise I wanted to share with ...

Should she have her thyroid removed?

cynthiag117
  • By cynthiag117 · New reply July 17, 2008
  • Discussion in Treatment · 1 reply
  • My 82 year old mother is scheduled to have her thyroid removed end of July. She has seen a Head & Neck surgeon at a major cancer center where she is being treated for bladder cancer. He has reviewed her ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply July 7, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

thyroid cancer survivor

precious
  • By precious · Posted July 2, 2008
  • Discussion in Living with a thyroid disease · 0 replies
  • I would like to hear if anyone out there has had a reoccurence of thyroid cancer after having the thyroid surgically removed? Anything you could share with me would be helpfui ...

Happy Birthday Orphan Drug Act!

Kr2ndog
  • By Kr2ndog · Posted June 26, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Wishing an Act Happy Birthday may seem strange to you, but it makes perfect sense to me. The Orphan Drug Act, signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, turned 25 this year and unlike some other ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 22, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

**Updated** System maintenance: Tuesday June 10th, 5 am - 7 am Eastern

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 5, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • ** Updated ** Due to power outages caused by storms in the Washington, DC area, we need to postpone this maintenance until Tuesday June 10th, from 5 am to 7 am. Thanks for your patience. ** Updated ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 27, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

The numbers are dropping!

Morse
  • By Morse · New reply May 19, 2008
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • Hey there... just thought I would share the news that I went back to the neph today and my numbers look great so even though I have only been on prednisone since the end of January we are ready to taper ...

Happy Mothers Day

Dove
  • By Dove · New reply May 14, 2008
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers, daughters, of mothers, Grandmothers, Fahters that have to or had to be both mother and father. God Loves you all, And a special wish goes out to all my new friends ...

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