Who Needs A Thyroid Anyways???

Monday was the big day.

I apologize for not being in touch until today. For all of you who have sent loving words and prayers of healing, thank you!

On Monday Morning I went in for surgery. My significant other and parents joined me. My adrenaline was definitely pumping, so I was entertaining them pre-surgery with laughter, jokes and silliness.

I ended up going to high school with the pre-op nurse and so we laughed, shared stories, etc.

When I went in for surgery, the nurses and surgeons heard about thew work I did and were so interested, they said that they wanted my card....who knew I needed to stash business cards under my gown!

As I was talking about my philosophy and the amazing results I see...I was out!

The surgery took five hours and when I came out I was told they took my entire thyroid due to it looking suspicious on both sides. I was also told that they didn't think it was cancer, but a final pathology report would let me know.

I stayed in the hospital for two days and met another nurse, her name was Heather. Heather too loved the work I did and said she wanted to be a nurse involved with what I did.

Monday night I had wonder friends that visited, my parents stayed until the wee
hours and my significant other slept in my hospital bed with me, taking care of my every need.

A few days later I received my staples out and I received great news…no cancer!! YAY!!! No radiation, which is great, I’ll just have to be on thyroid meds forever. The issue is that I had nodules on both sides that were showing follicular cells, and one out of four people with these follicular cells have cancer…so I tried all these procedures beforehand before having to undergo surgery, but all the tests showed up inconclusive.

My scar is rather large and definitely in the healing mode (that's me being positive regarding the way it looks)...if you really want to see it, let me know and I'll take a picture...for now, sweaters are perfect.

Today I'm going to go on a shopping spree and buy some trendy clothes.

Which leads me to what I want to share with you:

I'm sure you have parts of your body that you wish to hide, like my reaction to when I first saw my scar.

Perhaps it's a scar, your thighs, your stomach, etc.

What can you do to make it beautiful? What can you do to make that part of your body look and feel its best?

I'm going to go grab some awesome sweaters. Maybe some cool North Face fleece zip-ups....so at least while I'm healing, I can feel good about myself and not shy away, not avoid holiday parties, and still look fabulous. Maybe some fun new scarves, or some chunky necklaces to show off my neckline as I squeeze into my slimming black winter dresses.

What are you going to do?

Get inspired, find ways to enhance those parts of yourself until they take on a new shape or new look.

Let's all do it together!

Thank you for all your love,

Marna