Yipes, I hadn't realized it had been soo long since my last post.  Things have certainly been crazy and I think my head has finally stopped spinning.  For atleast the time being, that is.  So, on the 20th of December they took the remaining lobe of my thyroid out and that surgery was sooooooo much better than the first one.  I went to Georgetown the 2nd time and would recommend it without hesitation.  There was thankfully no cancer in that tissue, yeah, so I was all ready to get things going.  I guess it was about 7 weeks after that that I did the radio-iodine treatment.  I was in the hospital for about 1 day, I had to stay overnight 'cause I was too "hot" to be out in public.  heh heh  Seriously, they measured me by geiger counter!! 

The follow-up scan did show "uptake" in my lymph nodes and possibly in the esophagus and stomach.  But, as I found out, nuclear medicine is called UnClear Medicine for a reason, they don't know what that uptake means.  uh, yeah.  I'm supposed to go for follow-up (was supposed to 3 weeks ago and missed that appt thanks to a screw-up with the referral) to determine what we do next.

As you can see, I'm not too freaked about this.  God's been watching out for me and my family...in many ways.  I do thank you all for your kind words and prayers.  They mean a lot to me.