Thyroid biopsy results...

...are in, and I have a benign condition that will be treated with synthroid (synthetic thyroid hormone). We are now moving from a state of unknown and possibly facing more cancer in our family, to a state of moving on with living. Every day without Elizabeth here brings us a little closer to when we'll all be reunited in Heaven, so when I look at it like that things are more tolerable. We are finding ways to pick ourselves off the floor and have family fun time together, always including Elizabeth in our everyday conversations as we remember what she liked and what she did. It is so nice to finally think more about the good times and remember Princess Elizabeth rather than just being able to remember the deterioration and the terribly difficult and painful last two months--of course those two months were the most precious of all because we had to find ways of saying good-bye and giving Elizabeth a lifetime of love, but they were just so painful. I like being at Disneyland now and seeing other little girls and remembering Elizabeth being playful and princess-y, skipping down Main Street. It makes me happy more than melancholy, and I can smile more than tear-up for now.

I'm still focusing on finding work, but I'm finding that everything that I really really want to do (like patient advocate work, case managing, or even staff education training in patient relations, stuff like that) requires an RN... my little chemistry degree doesn't qualify me to take the RN certification test, but I have been investigating different accelerated nursing AA programs that would allow me to test--just to have the information. Looks like my dream job will have to wait and I will probably have to take something else to support us in the meantime...

Now that we have no immediate threat of cancer, we will be trying to decide what we can do in Elizabeth's name with the donations her fund received. Thank you everybody.