Just when things are looking up . . . wham!

[utahmomma]

So, "clean" scan on Friday is what the radiologist told me.  There was some uptake in the salivary glands, a bit in the thyroid bed, some in the liver . . . all which he attributed to the radiation being removed from my system.  Okay, I can buy that.  So Friday and Saturday I was doing the whoopie dance.

This afternoon I finally got my thyroglobulin results back.  Two weeks ago it was at .2 - today it is at 1.4!!!!  That's a 700% climb in two weeks!  So, in between appointments (yeah, I work 7 days a week) I looked up some research studies on increased Tg despite a negative I-131 scan.  Not so great news.  Sloan-Kettering and others had some great research which showed that either I need a complete hypohell/LID scan/treatment or a PET scan followed by RAI treatment.  Either I have a recurrence that is iodine resistant or, because I wasn't on a LID, isn't as sensitive to the I-131 as it should be.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I hate cancer.  Even the "good" cancer.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Going to have a long chat with the endo tomorrow when he calls with my results (which I already have).

Hope everyone else is having a better night.

Utah

[utahmomma]

Thanks all - yeah, off to tackle the next problem (or ten).  :-/

[mommy2two2008]

YAY!!!!!! JUMPING uP and DoWn for you!