Thank you for your support! I’m sorry you have had such a diagnosis - but hopeful even that can be overcome! Your mom has sure been through it. Sorry, but glad she has made it through all!
That scares me too - my head has been newly extra weird the last couple months. It scares me that maybe this is cancer spread to my head/spine! (MRI w/o contrast was unremarkable of head, but did not get neck done.) I keep thinking of my sister.
I'm sure it is hard not to think of her. I think of my Dad, who died of kidney cancer a couple years after my Mother's thyroid treatment, and the contrast between the two of them, one dying at 52, the other going strong at 82, and occasionally wonder which one I'll be. I know in the end it will be whatever God chooses, and it will suit his purpose.
As far as your head feeling newly weird, once I started getting the chemicals injected for tests (the MRI dye, the CAT scan dye, the PET scan radioactive dye) it was months till my head started to feel somewhat normal, then I went into chemo - LOL! Since last July I did all those tests, then chemo, then steroids (I got glassy nodules in my lungs from chemo), then surgery, and now I'm in radiation therapy. Sometimes my head feels normal, sometimes it doesn't. I expect that after a few months of nothing but daily aromatase inhibitor pills, I'll start to think I'm normal. I know there is nothing going on in my head or neck (although I do have a spot of cancer on my tailbone), so I'm sure it's all the strange chemicals that have made their way to my brain. Likely that's the case for you too - the testing, the chemicals, holding you head at odd angles for extended periods of time (I do that 20 minutes a day now for radiation,and I'm unstable for 30-45 minutes afterward). If you work on forgetting the idea that something is wrong, after a few days you'll feel a lot less like something is wrong!