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Struggles of Survivorship
I am about to celebrate my 5-year cancerversary. As I reflected on my own experience with thyroid cancer and what survivorship means to me. It’s not my fault that I had thyroid cancer.
Read More...How My Experience with Thyroid Cancer Affects Relationships
I think sometimes after we have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer it means that it doesn’t directly affect connecting with others who had a similar thyroid cancer who are in the AYA Community.
Read More...How To Encourage AYA Community Cancer Patients and Survivors
I wanted to share my thyroid cancer story and my testimony to others who are going through a cancer journey and cancer treatments. It is important to read these articles that I have written about my own experience with thyroid cancer about going through thyroid cancer treatment and how it makes me feel going through my thyroid cancer journey.
Read More...What I Wish Someone Told Me About Thyroid Cancer
I think there is nothing that anyone, including myself, could do to prepare ourselves for thyroid cancer. How can we give advice, share information about our own past, validation and self-awareness pre-diagnosis with thyroid cancer? Sometimes I wish I knew about thyroid cancer right before I had my total thyroidectomy surgery. Since I was diagnosed […]
Read More...The Ghosts of Cancer That Haunt Us
I think of supporting our cancer patients and survivors who have dealt with the Ghosts of Cancer by showing how we can deal with our own Ghosts of cancer to our cancer patients and survivors. When they are experiencing cancer and grieving losing their relationship with their spouses, siblings, and family members or losing someone who had cancer, it can be very painful.
Read More...What I Wish I Knew About Getting a Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis
I wanted to write about some things I wish knew about thyroid cancer. I just know how scary and frightening a thyroid cancer diagnosis is. I went through thyroid cancer treatment and radioactive iodine treatment for my thyroid cancer. It can be a scary experience for anyone who has a family history of thyroid issues. As a thyroid cancer survivor, it can make you feel a lot of mixed emotions, and it can cause some toxic thoughts.
Read More...How to Support Friends Through Survivor’s Guilt
I think it is important to support cancer patients who are going through their cancer journey. There are many cancer survivors who are struggling with survivor’s guilt and have lost someone who has been through cancer.
Read More...How I Overcame My Fears During Thyroid Cancer By Using My Faith
Two years ago I went through total thyroidectomy surgery on June 3rd, 2020. Since I was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma thyroid cancer on June 5th, 2020, it felt like my whole world has turned upside down. It’s like I was in a downward spiral with all the emotions of feeling lost, lonely, depressed, and angry when I found out that I was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma thyroid cancer.
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