Wow! Danny you really are an amazing guy despite all you've been through you are still positive that you have life. I am not sure you could say its been easier for you because its all you've known, infact I am not sure any of us should compare ourselves with one another but one thing is for sure you are a season veteran of health issues and an inspriation to the rest fo us! You are so right about each of our problems being relevant to ourselves, its not up to us to judge others or compare ourselves...it is what it is and thats that. Thankyou for sharing your story with the rest fo us. I hope from here on in your health only improves and your body behaves itself 🙂 ... View more

You have the same mantra as me "if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got". I'll have a better look through later I noticed you also have photos of your boys, they are beautiful all 4 of them 🙂 ... View more

Sailor I to have a pill box my oroxine medication changes form day to day and I am soooo forgetful, I like to think its baby brain...really I have been terrible since having my thyroid removed. My hormones are always out, as you cna imagine I am a nightmare to live with :) Mmmm love the sound of a cupa tea, I'm off to enjoy one as we speak. ... View more

Sailor I to have a pill box my oroxine medication changes form day to day and I am soooo forgetful, I like to think its baby brain...really I have been terrible since having my thyroid removed. My hormones are always out, as you cna imagine I am a nightmare to live with :) Mmmm love the sound of a cupa tea, I'm off to enjoy one as we speak. ... View more

Fortunately for me I only have 1 lot of medication other than viatmins, alhtough my medication varies form day to day so I have a Monday-Friday pill box which is fantastic. Thanks for that 🙂 ... View more

Problems and issues are relative, who are we to dictate how others should feel about what’s happening in their lives. I’ll tell you a story that my husband and I still get a smile out of :) When I was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer my 1st baby was only 2 months old my whole world felt like it was falling apart…the little petty things in life just seemed so far from important. My girlfriend called me and was devastated she was going to have to find a new apartment, she literally spent ½ an hour telling me about how she could not cope with the stress and her world was falling apart. At first I felt angry I thought are you serious I am fighting for my life and my son to have a mummy and you are talking about moving; but then I realised that this was a massive deal for her. Just because she was not facing a life threatening illness it did not make her problems less important than mine, to her it was the biggest problem she has had. So you see problems and issues are relative! ... View more

Danny was your thyroid removed because of goitre or cancer? man I can only imagine the med reigime you must be on and how much does it suck about oroxine needing to be taken alone and at opposite ends of the day from most other meds. I really just get sick of being charged $65 for a script because the doctor wants to see me, really its not like I am suddenly not going to need the oroxine. I believe its all about them making more money, I called toady and could not even get in to see the doctor for the script 😮 I am going to call tomorrow and ask the Dr to fax a script to the chemist she gets enough money out of me and i should not have to wait. What is the webster pack? ... View more

I spent 6 years ill with a mystery illness before diagnosed with thryroid cancer and I think that there is not 1 particular thing but a collective of things that maybe compounded. I don't believe stress as such is a cause but more our unexpressed and bottled up emotions, but I also beleieve there are so many environmental factors (including upbringing) that it would be hard to pin point a moment. MY MIL loves to tell everyone that she believes my cancer was what stressed my husband out and caused his cancer, this starts to become more about the blame game than causes I feel. As you have read form Steve we had a collective of traumatic events my illness was just a drop in the ocean. I have herd from others about the links to sugar and cancer, apparently cancer feeds on sugar. Who know if it is true but I am not taking any chances I eat healthy food, I exercise (when I can with 2 kids), I do a little yoga for stress relief, clean with natural products (no carcenogenes) and i now talk about my feelings openly so I figure I can't do much more than that I love thsi debate BTW its so interesting to find out everyones views and researched information 🙂 ... View more

Ah yes we have this debate all the time don't we Steve...its not about doing something bad yourself its about realising unexpressed emotions can cause disharmoney in the body. In the world of metaphysics my cancer comes about by 'never being herd' and we both know that is true and my biggest bug bear. So as Loralee says its about how we deal with these emotions that may have the link to cancer itself. Interesting articles on statistics BTW 🙂 ... View more

I love that poem by Robert Frost! I do agree with Sailor its not good to wish cancer or anything else on anyone, don't give others the satisfaction of sinking to their level...beside can you even imagine the karma from something like that! I to have somedays where I feel if only people realised what I had been through and what they had done to me in this terrible time, but the truth is I realise their actions are a reflection on them and not me. Hugs to you Dune Digger 🙂 ... View more