Thyroid Cancer Support

Someone posted on my Facebook wall to ask an important question that in all my years of thyroid patient advocacy, I’ve never really tackled. The question is: “How do you explain to your family what you are going through?”

It’s difficult to fully explain what’s going on with a chronic disease that is, in many ways, “invisible” to everyone but the sufferer. But perhaps this “Open Letter to Family and Friends of Thyroid Patients” can be a conversation-starter, or help in some way to help those who love us understand just a little bit better what it is like to have thyroid disease. Read the letter now.

Share YOUR Story: Supporting Thyroid Patients–Good Ideas and Horror Stories

We all know doctors and the public are cavalier, and sometimes cruel, about thyroid disease and thyroid patients. But how do friends and family react when someone they care about has a thyroid condition? Are they supportive, or do they add to the problem? If you’re a thyroid patient, share your good ideas, personal experiences, and horror stories about how family and friends have reacted to you, supported you, or been less than a help. And if you’re a family member or friend of someone with thyroid disease, what have you been through? Do you have ideas on how to best be supportive? Share your thoughts now!

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When Your Family Member or Friend Has Thyroid Disease: An Open Letter to the Family and Friends of Thyroid Patients originally appeared on About.com Thyroid Disease on Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at 17:55:37.

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