First day off the ‘roids. I don’t know if they’re out of my system yet but I successfully took a short nap. Every day’s a new thing, though. This whole discover-my-body-all-over-again thing just keeps morphing. I can’t tell if it’s like some hippie drug experiment or puberty. Or both. Since yesterday afternoon, I’ve been getting …
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I’ve written a bit about our adventures with the low-iodine diet, or as carnivorous Carrie calls it, “worse than vegan.” This post is for search engines and the vegetarian thyroid cancer patients who may use them in anticipation of radioactive iodine treatment, but of course you’re welcome to read on if you don’t fall in …
This is the email I sent out to my distribution list today. Now, for a high-iodine lunch! — Dear Friends and Colleagues, Here’s the latest cancer update. For those of you following the blog (http://superbon.net – I’m on a roll) the RAI news immediately below the headlines is old news. HEADLINES: I was really radioactive, …
I’m down to 10 microsieverts per hour so I’m free to go. But no public appearances for 3 days as I can’t be near pregnant women and you never know who’s pregnant. So Carrie’s doing the shopping. Also, I can’t prepare food for you and you can’t snuggle with my neck for 3 days. Also …
If all goes well in about 19 hours I will be walking out of here with a bag full of stuff to hide in our storage locker for 3 weeks while its half-life expires, and a plan to eat a maximum-iodine dinner (oh how I love to transgress). Today was largely uneventful. I received many …
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I feel like I must be living in the future. First, I am radioactive. I don’t actually glow, but I am in this isolation room and people are afraid of me. Radioactive iodine comes in different forms but I got it in capsule form. Actually, they gave me so much it was divided between two …
My tastes in audiovisual entertainment tend to run toward the escapist in good times, and in tough times even moreso. Luckily, even though we do watch the usual “high middlebrow” TV (HBO shows, Battlestar, Damages, etc) we can’t keep up with all of them, which has left a nice little backlog for my recovery period. …
