I HAVE CANCER!!!!!!!!!! Help!!! Please help!

[Reese120]

I just got the call from the surgeon, it is pap cancer.  I am a mess.  I have to go back in on Friday and have this surgery again.  I am so scared!!!!!  I have 3 little kids, 5, 9 and 12.  Oh, I am a mess.

Please tell me positives stories.  Please.

[ChitChatNine]

I haveg been where you both are now .. and I know and can feel exactly how you feel as you sit at your PC writing your posts.

If you have some free time go back and do a search on my old posts .. I joined MedHelp in October 2008 and my surgery was in Jan 07.  It's been my lifeline that I now welcome the opportunity to give back to those who walk in my shoes .. and others, too, who have other issues with their thyroid.

C~

[huncher]

I just posted a few minutes ago about the 2 surgeries and papillary cancer...how weird is that!? Anyway I am sorry to hear that you are in the same boat as I am...I will be having my surgery on Tuesday 11/18.

I will follow your progress and let you know mine. We will get thru this!!!
I kinda know how you feel because I'm there too, but it is better for me since I'm old (54) and kids are grown.

Stay positive, it is an illness...we will deal...and it will get better.

Take care

[crazi]

I am sorry that u got this news, but the good news ( since I was told I had this and I did a lot of research) it is the most treatable.
We are all here for u, and u will be in my prayers.
Everything  will be fine, u will come thru this, stay positive, stay strong.
♥
Crazi

[ERNURSE86]

UTAHMOMMA gave some good advice, so...I'm not going to repeat it. Just the few important things to remember--papillary thyroid cancer is about the BEST cancer to have if you have to deal with the awful C word. I am an eleven year survivor--I had papillary and follicular cancer--in all lobes of the thyroid, as well as at least x4 lymph nodes. I was 29 years old, and had a two year old, the very idea was devastating--but as you learn more, you will come to understand that you will be fine. I was a stage I, even with the cancer in my nodes. How old are you ?  Don't quote me, but I believe if you're 45 yrs and under/female/and with pap ca locally you would be a stage I as well,  the ten year surviver rates of that are near to 100%.  I had one high dose tx with I-131, and no recurrence so far.  It is alot to go through--and you will live with the worry always...however I always just told myself to be thankful for no chemo and no RAD, this treatment literally has a magic bullet--don't we wish we could say that for all the other cancers out there ?  In addition I had two more children after my cancer--now nine and four.  A little tidbit....I have read research articles that say on routine autopsies...that up to 20% of people have been found to have papillary thyoid carcinomas and never even knew it !  That is how slow it grow's !

[bet643]

RELAX....Take a deep breath.  I had surgery 3 yrs ago for pap. carcinoma and I'm doing fine. You'll be fine and you'll be there for your children.  You'll be suprised on how strong of a person you will become because of it.  We will be here for you and give you all of the help and support you need. I know it's scary when you first find out, I know because I've been there. We all handle things differently I guess. But we are here for you.

[ChitChatNine]

Please read this .. from our Health Pages which I posted awhile ago. ThePsychological Impact of Cancer (let's face it .. this is a new chapter of your life and it is yours and NOT by choice).

http://www.medhelp.org/health_pages/Thyroid-Disorders/Psychological-Impact-of-a-Thyroid-Cancer-Diagnosis/show/90?cid=62

C~