I don't know and I don't remember.

Undetectable....in every way....
(Can't you just hear Nat King Cole crooning this?)
Undetectable...and hopefully here to stay....
(If you force it, you can fit all the words in that line.)

I had bloodwork done last weekend--best time to hit the hospital's 24/7 lab is at 8pm on a Sunday night--to check my thyroglobulin (basically the tumor marker) and my TSH. 

The thyroglobulin has been the same number since immediately after the surgery, and the TSH was .09 this time.  It was .07 last time, so I'm oversupressed.  I was told to keep taking .125 of my good friend levoxyl Monday through Saturday, and then take only half a pill on Sunday. 

Hmm.  That means that I am now taking LESS levoxyl WITHOUT a thyroid gland than I was when I had a thyroid gland.  That just doesn't seem right to me--how could I be on less now?  Apparently my thyroid had checked out years ago....

She's baaaaack....

I am definitely feeling the effects of being oversupressed--zero memory, trouble with word retrieval, switching the first letters of words, much slower processing, complete blanks about what I was going to do next....today, after washing out the cat bowls for breakfast, I couldn't find the paper towels to dry them out.  I had no thought process of using a dish towel that was hanging on the oven door right behind me.  I don't like my brain like this!!  It's like living in a parallel universe.  Today in my AP class, I told the kids they would have two mintues to read over the comprehension questions they would need to answer after doing a listening comp activity, and then I started the recording.  It took me 50 seconds to realize that the CD was playing and that I hadn't given them the two minutes they needed...they laughed, but it was confusing...hopefully it won't take me 6 more weeks of this before the TSH level stablizes. 

I go back to Dr. N in May to redo all of the hormone levels, and then a whole body scan in June.  The estrogen is definitely helping and I can now sleep through the night.  Ahhhhhhhhhh.....

Off to bed for now...I have lots to write about, but need to find time to work it in.  We finally moved!  It's bad enough that I can't think. Add move-in chaos to it, and I really believe my head is going to explode.  I couldn't find anything right now if I wanted to, and I can't decide who should get the blame.

You look good!

Another milestone in this cancer journey...

I had my one year follow up with the surgeon today.  She took one look at my scar and quipped, "Did you even have surgery?"  The scar has blended in rather nicely with the natural crease in my neck, so it doesn't stand out much.  She examined my neck, listened to my lungs, made me swallow while she probed my neck again, checked my labs from the end of January and asked me how much levothyroxine I take.  She told me I really looked great, and said to come back in one year to see her again.

I arrived for my appointment 20 minutes early.  I was in my car on my way home 7 minutes before the actual time of my appointment.  Amazing.

I feel like I can breathe a small sigh of relief for the moment.  Ahhhhhhhhhh.