Decision taken

It's incredible to see where Craig and I are at this moment of our lives. We came from a horrible first year full with sickness, but a year where we could see that the Lord was right there with us. We can look back now and still testify that not only we had suffering and bad days, but we also had love, happiness and joy; the joy that seemed to disappear sometimes it was also there within us.

As we entered a new year with lot of hope and dreams, we were wondering about doing or not the RAI 131 treatment. We prayed about it and I have to say that for both of us, it was one of those moments where we wanted to hear a loud voice of God. The hardest part was that the benefit and the risk was 50-50. The doctors all say the same: 50-50. I'll explain more about this.

After the surgeon removed my thyroid, he left some thyroid tissue to preserve my vocal cords. Out of all the possibles things that could happen during and after the surgery, I got none. Not even pain, praise the Lord! Because there is still a little amount of thyroid tissue, it makes harder for the doctors to follow up and make sure that the cancer won't come back. See, thyroid cancer as curable as it is, it's also one of those weird ones that can come back. It doesn't always come back, but there is a possibility. It's for that reason that doctors think that it's better to completely destroy the thyroid tissue that is left, using radiation-RAI 131.
If a patient has a tumor big that 1.5 cm they suggest the treatment without no doubts. In my case I had a 1.3cm tumor in the left side and a 2.5mm in the right; so, if we add them together, it will be 1.5 and that's why they think it's 50-50. I am in the border line and trust me, it's not fun.

After discussing again with my endocrinologist, she told me that it's reasonable to hold off to it, but that I am in the border line. To me I am cancer free in the name of Jesus. I was hoping I won't need the treatment and the surgeon told me that the cancer didn't spread, that it was all encapsulated in the thyroid, that no even the lymph nodes were involved. That was a good report which make me think that the cancer is all out of my body which means I don't need any treatments.

Long story, short, the treatment was canceled. You may think I am crazy, I am just acting with faith. Calling things that I can't see as if they are is a good thing to do.