Thyroid Cancer Stories

In 2018, while lying in bed I rubbed my neck and felt a golf ball-sized lump at the base of my neck: I ask my husband if he felt it and he did. Concerned, I called my general physician and she was able to quickly get me into her office …

Hi! My name is Lisa Douthit. I feel like I have been battling disease my whole adult life. I even wrote a book titled Wellness Warrior – Fighting For Life In Fabulous Shoes to talk about some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way and what worked to help …

I was just recently told that my thyroid cancer is back. I am not sure there is much they can do. I’m also currently sitting in the hospital because I have a pleural effusion, one in each lung. To add to the fun I also have a pericardial effusion and …

September is thyroid cancer awareness month, what better month for me to tell my story and spread the word. I wanted to write this not to get sympathy but for people to understand what an impact your thyroid has on your body. The easiest way to put it, as my …

On November 2012, a lump appeared on the side of my neck. The doctors told me it was probably nothing, but that we should check it out anyways. It turns out that the lump was a swollen lymph node. After an ultrasound and a biopsy I was diagnosed with papillary thyroid …

I just got home today from the hospital after having my thyroid, my left parathyroids, as well as numerous lymph nodes removed because of papillary thyroid cancer. I was diagnosed officially on July 2. Back in May, my husband and I elected to do an advanced body scan (EBT). I …

When I was 23 years old I was a mother to two small children who were 2 and 3 years old. I had discovered a lump on my throat, so I went to my Dr. the very next day and was sent the next week for an ultrasound and biopsy …

On Valentine’s Day 2013 I was given the news, I heard that horrible ”C” word.  My doctor had told me I had Thyroid Cancer.  As I sat on the other end of the line thinking this is it my life is over I’m going to die, my doctor was telling …

I had waited my entire life for the moment to finally come. I was finally starting my quest through nursing school and couldn’t have been more excited. My happiness soon ended when on January 17, 2012, the second day of nursing school, my endocrinologist called me and told me I had thyroid …

I remember being a little girl and having the feeling that something just wasn’t right. I would ball up and cry to myself through the years. I’d make the comment about how I thought I had cancer or something like that. Guess it probably did sound a bit dramatic coming …