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Cancer Survivors?

I am lucky. At 78 no cancers that I know of. Perhaps because my godfather was an Organic nut and a chiropractor. So I learned, and believed, a heathy lifestyle. Unfortunately I have lost my mother and mother-in-law to cancers. And my wife is a cancer survivor. But that is her story to tell.

My doctor has complained that in 35 years, other than giving me an annual Physical, he has not made a dime off me. Apparently my aversion to illnesses or injuries, that might have warranted medical attention, never got any. I am that guy who just shakes it off and one day may well just fall over dead for it. But cancer has yet to lay a hand on me.
 
@FrancSevin that's awesome! My dad was like that until this past week when he was diagnosed with skin cancer. May you continue to be cancer free all your days!

@Doc which kind of thyroid cancer did you have and what treatments did you go through? I had Papillary Thyroid Cancer and it was contained to one nodule, so I had two surgeries (the first one because they weren't confident it was cancer and the second one to remove the other side) and that's all the treatment I needed.

@NorthernRedneck that's so sad! Lung cancer is pretty quick, isn't it?
 
No idea what kind it was. I didn't have any treatments. I had had a pain in my neck for over a year. They could not figure out what or why. Then I had an MRI of my back, that is when they saw something on the thyroid. Biopsied and found cancer. They took the whole thing out a few weeks later. Sure did impact my energy. I was attributing it to getting older. Now I realized it was part getting older and part due to no thyroid. Levothyroxine give me t4 but my system does not convert enough of it to t3. This year I started B12 injections and they seem to help.
 
Doc said:
No idea what kind it was. I didn't have any treatments. I had had a pain in my neck for over a year. They could not figure out what or why. Then I had an MRI of my back, that is when they saw something on the thyroid. Biopsied and found cancer. They took the whole thing out a few weeks later. Sure did impact my energy. I was attributing it to getting older. Now I realized it was part getting older and part due to no thyroid. Levothyroxine give me t4 but my system does not convert enough of it to t3. This year I started B12 injections and they seem to help.
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I'm wondering if I'll need to start B12 injections. How often do you have to get them?
 
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