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	<title>Kate Stowell</title>
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	<description>A Cancer Survivor &#38; Fighter&#039;s Blog</description>
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		<title>August updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of news as usual. Starting with the biggest: 1) My parents bought a house here! It&#8217;s a 5 bedroom colonial 0.3 miles from our house. They&#8217;re coming out around Thanksgiving to stay for a week or two and gets some things settled. Right now my dad is still working for Kaiser and it may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/08/04/august-updates/</link>
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		<title>Summer time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve updated but not because anything bad has happened&#8230;I&#8217;m actually doing ok. Just busy with life! I had a tg level drawn about a month after RAI and it came back at 0.57. Ideally it would be 0 meaning that there are NO thyroid cancer cells left, but apparently it can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/07/13/summer-time/</link>
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		<title>Thoughtful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of pictures to post tonight and many thoughts. First of all the good news. I had my repeat total body scan after my RAI today. I&#8217;ve been so nervous all this week it&#8217;s almost made me physically ill&#8230;even though the first scan was negative this one is done with 150 mCi on board vs. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/04/16/thoughtful/</link>
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		<title>Synthroid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Synthroid- 150 mcgs. Day 1. Also Day 1 of back to real food!]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/04/13/synthroid/</link>
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		<title>Radioiodine Isolation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided it was time to update since it&#8217;s been a few days&#8230;I haven&#8217;t felt like writing before because I&#8217;m just so darn tired from the hypothyroidism and honestly I&#8217;ve felt a little bit down about the whole thing. However don&#8217;t worry, I think I&#8217;m pretty much done feeling sorry for myself :). Basically on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/04/12/radioiodine-isolation/</link>
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		<title>Whole body scan tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well tomorrow is the big day. Initially I thought today was when I would be getting the whole body scan, but my protocol is a little different than I thought. Wednesday I got a 5mCi dose of I-131 and today I got a 2mCi dose of I-123. The I-131 came in a little test tube [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/04/08/whole-body-scan-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>Last Day Before Iodine Scan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day before my iodine scan starts&#8230;I&#8217;ll get the tracer tomorrow and go back on Thursday for the actual scan. The closer it gets the more nervous I am, but I do have full confidence this will turn out ok. On a happier note my mom and I will transplant my tomatoe and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/04/06/last-day-before-iodine-scan/</link>
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		<title>Happy Easter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/04/03/happy-easter/</link>
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		<title>RAI&#8230;.FINALLY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got the word from endocrinology that I can go forward with my radioactive iodine treatment. It certainly took long enough to become de-iodinated! I&#8217;m just waiting for a call back now from nuclear medicine to figure out when. I&#8217;m scared and excited. Excited to be done, scared of what they will find (metastases?!?!?!) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/03/04/rai-finally/</link>
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		<title>Post-Holiday update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still have not done my iodine treatment. Hopefully it will happen soon? Overall the holidays were great. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s January already! The boys and I just got back from a trip to visit grandma and grandpa Potter out at the beach house. I will post some pictures when I get a chance. While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katestowell.com/2010/01/16/post-holiday-update/</link>
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