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Riding the Hypo-thyroid train on a Low Iodine Diet.

So my Doctor took me off my thyroid replacement hormone to ready my body to take radioactive iodine. Basically, when the body is not producing enough thyroid hormone the brain sends signals to the thyroid (which I no longer have) to make more thyroid stuff! Thyroid stuff is made with iodine. My cancer cells are renegade thyroid cells. When they give me the radioactive iodine my cancer cells should drink it up and then the radiation kills them. So I am poisoning myself in order to feel myself. Weird right?

So I have not taken thyroid medicine in a week and I will not be taking it for two more weeks. This pretty much means every day I lose more energy, get weaker and more tired and cold sensitive. It feels like that afternoon at work when you feel a cold coming on and you don't have any Tylenol to take. Yeah. It sucks. I get up in the morning, take a shower, get dressed and all I can do is yawn and try not to fall back to sleep.

The other challenge I am faced with is a low-iodine diet in order to starve the body and make it reallllly eager for the radioactive iodine. This diet sucks. No dairy. No seafood. No egg yolks. Nothing packaged or manufactured. No more than six ounces of meat or poultry. Only non-iodized salt.

This diet sucks a dick. Correction. A bag of dicks. The good news is, it is letting me expand my cooking experiments! Here is the big surprise! I made a vegan casserole and it was fucking delicious! No recipe or nuthin. I will post this laterz. I am kind of tired. Actually, really tired. I need to rest.