A Cancer Survivor & Fighter's Blog
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy almost Easter! I am feeling pretty done with the whole hypothyroid thing and low iodine diet but doing ok. Wednesday and Thursday I am scheduled for the radioactive tracer and scan, and Thursday I will sit down with nuclear medicine to get the results and plan my ablation dose.
The boys are doing great. Daniel will be ONE on April 11th. I can’t believe it…it seems like we just brought him home from the hospital. We put a swing set out in the yard and they play almost every night out there.
The garden is coming along pretty well too. I have tomatoes and bell peppers seeded inside and have already put in quite a few perennials. Today as an early mother’s day present Todd and the boys put together a wrought iron bench in a new flower garden section of the yard. All it needs now is a little water barrel :).
I’m working this weekend and tomorrow we’re having a little Easter party so Todd is out buying some fruit to make a fruit salad. It will be my last day of work for at least a week or so. I am very proud of the fact that I have been able to work my full schedule up until right before my scan, no special exceptions or light duty. Plus it has kept my mind off all of the “what ifs”.
My name is Kate Stowell. I’m a cancer survivor two times over! I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 1997 and diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer in 2009. Besides surviving cancer, I am a graduate of SUNY Geneseo (2004) and SUNY Binghamton (2006) and work as a registered nurse in a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I have two wonderful children, a loving husband, and a sweet black lab. The purpose of this blog is to keep a record of all the ups and downs my growing family goes through both during treatment and everyday life. I welcome questions and comments. Welcome!
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