I do not mind sharing. Yes, I have always held my breath, each and every time. I was in Houston during Hurricane Harvey. We lost our townhouse, but the hurricane is what led to my first cancer diagnosis. The evaluation at the stadium was where they found a tumor in my throat. I had cancer invading my lymph nodes and thyroid. It was a moderately aggressive cancer. Jan 2018, they operated and removed the tumor, my thyroid and a whole lot of lymph nodes that were destroyed by cancer. They didn't see any other areas, afterward that had cancer activity. However, they did do the radioactive iodine therapy. That was rough on me. Unlike lots of people, I did not do well and was in the hospital in isolation for 3 days. I tried to stand after the therapy and fell to the ground, like a rock.
After that, the next year was spent trying to get my thyroid levels to a suppressed level, to keep the cancer from coming back and of course to keep me alive. I started out on Synthroid, then Synthroid and Cytomel then they changed me to generic levothyroxine 125 and liothyronine 25. That has worked best for me for about a year now. However, after my last visit, it seems thyroid is screwed up again and the mass in my left breast.
I hope all women here get checked. Of course early is better and age is irrelevant, everyone should get an exam and after certain age get a mammogram.
I hadn't posted over the past few days, because I have been dealing with Liberty Mutual. It hasn't been a bad experience with them overall. My husband was hit by a man who swerved to avoid a deer. The guy admitted fault and called his insurance. He was afraid someone was hurt. Fortunately, no one was hurt on either side. Both our truck (Dodge 1500 SLT Hemi 4x4) and his truck a (Ford F150 4x4) are totaled. Today, the insurance company mailed us the check. It didn't take long for them to determine both were totaled(24 hours). We were due to make our last payment on our truck this month. So we only owed $643.04 on the truck....so, now we are truck shopping, I guess. We are keeping the truck though and they are reducing the total loss by $450. I was grateful that night though, because our community is small and everyone was out there waiting and waiting on Highway Patrol (took them 2 hours to get there) and everyone took turns trying to get our truck out of the woods. They ended up having to get permission from the owner of the property to cut trees to get it out. Our guys took a chainsaw as well as the neighbor and quickly turned trees into logs. They went back the next day and split it into firewood to take to the property owner.
I am thinking about what all is going on and I will sit down and talk to my mom and kids. I just don't have all of the answers and hope they understand that.
