Whoop!!

For the first time in four years, my bloodwork is NORMAL!!! Whoop!! :o) This is a great thing!

The doctors measure something in your blood called thyroglobulin. I forget the particulars of what it is and why it's so important to monitor when you have cancer, but it's important and I know that it has to be low. For four years it has ranged from 4 to 7 and that is not considered low.

At my appointment last week with my specialist, she mentioned that she wanted the thyroglobulin level to be at 1.5 or lower. This morning, I found out that my level was 0.2!!!!!!

I'm still floating with the news! However, I still have to follow through with the body scans. I'm not that concerned about those, because they've been good the last couple of years with spots that they speculate could have been something, but they were never sure. It was just the bloodwork that was abnormal. So I'll follow through and finish up the seond part of this testing business and then I'm about 99% sure that life will resume to "normal" on Friday (aka, medicated, no special diet, no more lab work needed, etc.) for at least a year. I'll find out about that on Thursday.

So, you all have a wonderful Monday!! I know that I already am!! :o)