Kate Stowell

The boys are at church with my mom and I am about to head off to the gym, but before I go: http://www.dkmsamericas.org/ Think about saving a life! Every 10 minutes someone dies from a blood cancer. By joining the bone marrow registry you could be someone’s hero- all it takes is a cheek swab.

Ethan is such a big boy now…I still can’t believe how much he’s changed in two years…his “Happy to you!” (Ethan’s way of saying happy birthday- for some reason he always passes right on over the birthday part) is next Saturday and now he is walking/running/climbing, speaking in full sentences, knows his colors, and can [...]

I’m not so much upset about it anymore, but I am still trying to come to grips with the fact that now for the rest of my life I need to take medications. EVERY day. The only thing in my life I’ve ever regularly taken before was vitamins! It is also is hard to accept [...]

Short term and long term! Short term plans- when my father comes out next month I think we’re going to rent a rototiller and put in blueberry bushes by the fence. Our property already had a fence on two sides but we live in a busy area and with one fast toddler and a toddler [...]

I love living in the Washington DC area but I don’t love the hot, sticky summers. I think today is the first time it’s started out in the 60′s. It was actually nice enough that Ethan, my mom, Shadow (my mom’s lab mix) and I all ate breakfast on the porch before taking the kids [...]

I got some great news today- according to the final pathology my cancer is papillary and completely confined to the thyroid in a capsule- no lymph node involvement! Now I am just awaiting RAI. I was hoping to do it 6 weeks after treatment, but it will probably be pushed back to 3 months after [...]

Tomorrow it is back to ENT to have them take off the steristrips, get the pathology results,  and start talking with endocrinology about when my radioactive iodine ablation will be. I logically know they will most likely only have good things to tell me but I am still nervous anyway. Today my mom and I [...]

Ethan is with my mom at church and Daniel is with Todd doing some errands so I can rest. I am just so thankful I have such a supportive family…I can not imagine how people get through this alone.  Right now I am working hard on being positive and making the most of the time [...]

Day two of being home from surgery. I’m feeling pretty good and everything went about as well as could be expected. The ENT surgeon said that just like the CT scan showed there was no metastasis to the lymph nodes and the cancer was confined to the thyroid. I won’t know anything more until the [...]

Kate has completed surgery and everything went very smoothly. The doctors were very pleased that she tolerated it well and that the cancer did not seem to spread. More soon.