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Oh yeah, because they can not get a good reading every year on the Thyroid cancer spread or cure, her blood work is not completely clear of signs of it. All the doctors and hospitals still rate her as a stage 4 cancer victim/survivor. So it is all OK in our books that she is still alive.

Oh and the added benefit is that because her neck and face were so affected by the radical neck operation three years ago they did plastic surgery and she looks great! (Trophy wife! :-)

Now, no way except for a thin line on her neck does she look like she had such an invasive operations. She looks great for 60 and much younger than her friends of the same age. Most of her friends were/are nurses of the same age, and she looks much better than them... but I am biased.

Me? I never would have had the follow-up plastic surgery. I HATE needles and hospitals in general. But she is such a trooper and a sweet person so she did. So I guess there is a silver lining to all she went through.

If you search on FR for me (JSTEFF) or Thyroid cancer you may find the long descriptions from back in 2004 or 2005 of the operation and all we went through back then. Good luck. Freepmail me if you or your wife wants to communicate about that it has all been like for my wife or me.Good luck.

Sorry, one other point. My wife was cut from just behind her left ear lobe to her right and she looks great after the cosmetic surgery. Meyers said she looked like a fish he was cleaing while being operated on.

She had dozens of staples in a railroad track layout from ear to ear. The pictures are terrifying to look at now, but she looks great. So tell your wife it will almost certainly be just a small and slight remembrance years from now when she is still alive and doing well

We went for the scan yesterday morning which was the one week point after taking the treatment. I was in the room with her and saw the monitor screen. They finished up and told us she was still too hot {radioactive} to get an accurate scan. Meaning the radiation wasn't breaking down as fast likely due to her own metabolism.

So they said to continue precautions and try the scan again Sunday morning. The scan was just showing large clusters where the stuff had accumulated which doesn't mean cancer as such as I understand it. I have a feeling her urinary and bowel bypasses likely factor into the rate of which it can leave her body as well. My Mom gets to dog sit four more days.