Day two arrived before I knew it and we headed back through the snow to Baylor. I sat in the waiting room for a little bit and then Beth just kind of waved me over to where she was and we started walking upstairs, rounding many corners and hallways before getting to our destination, the …
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RAI Treatment ~ Part 2
The day before my first appointment, Texas was hit with a massive winter storm. The biggest one in history. Roads were completely frozen, car wrecks totaling 100+ cars were shown on the news, power outages were occurring across the whole state, and temperatures had dropped below zero. I wanted more than anything to be done …
RAI Treatment ~ Part 1
The RAI treatment basically consists of being on a low iodine diet for several weeks, getting a series of thyrogen injections, swallowing a radioactive pill, then getting a CT scan to show where in the body has cancerous thyroid cells remaining. Sometimes you just need one treatment, other times you may need more. Luckily for …
What are the Odds?
When I first was diagnosed with cancer, I kept thinking, what are the odds? If you have a tumor in your throat, there's a 95% chance that it is NOT cancer. Then out of that 5%, even with a biopsy saying it is "suspicious" of cancer, there is still just a 50% chance that it …
High-School Superlatives; First to Get Cancer
When you graduate high school, you and your friends often still keep tabs on the people from your graduation class for years to come. We text each other when we see someone got married, someone moved abroad, when someone has a baby, etc. You see who the first people are to start a family, the …
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Encouraging Scripture
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” -Proverbs 3:3 This verse stuck out to me due to the use of the word “neck”. Bind them around your neck. As I literally had bandages around my freshly, surgically-cut neck, I sat humbled in …
Bright Spots
The biggest blessings I received during this time all revolve around the theme of feeling cared for and thought of. Here are some big ones that stuck out as beautiful bright spots during the dark times. Check-In Texts This wins, hands down, and is the simplest of things. All it took was seeing “hey bud, …
Choosing to Share My Story
This part of my cancer experience, the "coming out", was kind of a touchy one. Who do I tell? How do I tell? Do I even tell? I felt like a fraud to hold it in. How could I carry on posting like normal and withhold such a life-altering event? So I wrote out my …
Post-Op: Thyroidectomy
New Years Day, 2021 began with a bang. Although I left my cancerous thyroid in 2020, the real recovery and cancer journey had just begun. The awful blood bag that was pinned to my chest was removed the next morning after my thyroidectomy. I was instructed on which medicine and vitamins to take and what …
Surgery Day
I can still vividly recall the nausea and anxiety that I felt that night before my surgery. There were a few tears as I watched the time slowly creep closer and closer to my early morning wake-up call. When I woke up a few hours later, the nerves were still there. I put on my …
The "Good" Cancer 