Good News All Around!

Got a call from the doctor's office this morning. The full body scan showed what they expected and wanted to see. There are residual thyroid cells in my neck (they may or may not be cancerous) - but nothing else showed outside the neck area. That is good news!

So now we have a good baseline to work from as we move forward. The next thing on the agenda is a milder dose of radioiodine and another full body scan in 6-months. Hopefully the next scan will show little or no thyroid cells left. If there are some, I will have to do the high-dose radioiodine treatment again to kill-off the stragglers.

The other good news is that I received a letter from Metlife yesterday saying that my Short Term Disability claim has been settled and closed. I feel like I had a brawl with city hall (which they say you cannot win) and actually won! My theory is that insurance is like those rebate offers - you only get your money if you follow their directions EXACTLY, make a dozen phone calls and wait 6-months for the result.

Now I feel that I can get back into the normal day-to-day routine (rut?) that I found that I actually miss. I have had enough excitement this year!

Once again, I would like to thank God for all my blessings, and for my family and friends. Thanks to everyone for their prayers, thoughts, well-wishes, offers to help and for the help. Faith, a sense of humor, good doctors and a network of support from my family and friends made this ordeal pretty easy to get through.

I'll keep posting to the blog in the future. I have to. There are just too many crazy things in my life not to pass along. For example: when I woke-up Monday morning (the day of my body scan), the radio alarm was playing the exact words, "Knock, knock, knocking on Heaven's door." I remembering saying to myself, "that can't be good!" Weird stuff like that happens to me all the time.

Thanks again everyone!

Jeff