LISA AND EVERYONE

[Guest guest]

I know i've been down and i was not the better person to give advice about

cheering up but........... (here i go)

Each day I wake up and inhale the oxygen right to my blood, and open my

eyes, and get up and see the sky, and my hands, and my body, and I stand up

and feel whatever i can feel (i mean, joy, anger, pain, frustration,

strenght, energy, etc) i talk to myself... and i say :'hey, I'm alive'....

and doing things make you alive.

What's the difference between cancer patients and non cancer people????

NONE. Well maybe we know a lot more about endocrinology than they do... or

we know a lot about life than they do, cuz we give it the right value......

Maybe we'll die early? maybe not. Maybe we'll live better... maybe not...

but I'm sure that being alive has nothing to do with being " healthy " .......

Body is just out recipient...... OUR SOULS ARE WHAT WE ARE. That means.....

while the body works... go ahead........ don't let a fucking neck alien

(yeah i know..... watch the mouth..... sorry, I won't... sue me) step on

you. I think it takes more than this kind of shit to stop us. I MEAN IT.

Maybe yeah..... we can be blue, we can be down, we can feel depressed.....

but..... GET UP, girl!

I was talking ot my endo a couple o days ago and i wsa telling her that i

was angry cuz i will have to be 'stupid' a bunch of days because of my next

hypo for my iodine... and she said " yeah, you will " ..... BUT then I started

thinking about it and maybe my memory didn't work that well (i kept

forgetting what i was talking about) but i discovered something called

palmtop (a piece of paper will do it) but i discovered my intelligence

remained intact, even when I was hypo..... and i think that is because of

inner strenght, (yeah i know.... maybe it's a medical issue but let me be

happy!) and I kept doing everything even with a lot more of strenght.

Yeah.... i was asleep. Who cares?

Jeopardyze your health????? I don't think so. I really don't. I ain;'t no

doc but I think you'll make a hell of an exposition (in the good way!) and

you'll be proud of yourself for not letting this shit go over you. I think

(i mean.... I FEEL) you'll feel worse if you miss the conference. And

definitly you'll feel better seeing that you made it. Just make up your

mind, make diagrams of your exposition to not allow yourself to get lost in

the middle of the conference and TRUST in your brain, your soul, your

strenght and you'll discover that the best therapy for EVERYTHING is simply

TO LIVE.

I hope it helps. I know it'll help.

And.... cheer up!!!!!!

Ruy

(an undercover angel passing through this earth.....)

(hahaha.... i'm not crazy, just happy....it hurts..... I'M ALIVE.... SO ARE

YOU!)

Input from Group - please

Hi All

First I want to share the good news. I had my RAI on Feb. 10th and the

WBS on this past Thursday, 2/20.....it looked good and clean! I don't

need to have another scan until next year (Thank God! What an awful 4

weeks it has been).

Now, the question. I've only been on sythroid for a week now. Very

slow uphill climb back to feeling " normal. " I pretty much expected

that...(minus the cold I seem to be getting). I was supposed to attend

a national conference in Atlanta (5 hours away from here) 4 days, and

I just don't know how I " m going to feel 5 days from now. The way I'm

feeling now, it seems all too overwhelming and I just don't know if

I'm up to it, I'm afraid it will set me back healthwise. But what if,

5 days from now, I feel really good?

What should I expect after being on synthroid for 2 weeks? I was told

that it could take 2-3 weeks to really feel better. Could I jeopardize

my health by overdoing, after the whole surgery, hypo and RAI thing?

Right now, I've pretty much decided not to go...

What are your thoughts?

Thanks,

in SC

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