How Do You Prepare For Radioactive Iodine Treatment?
Having Thyroid cancer is not the end of your world, literally and figuratively. However, going through treatment is a pain in the neck (yes a bad, but appropriate pun.) Getting ready for your radioactive treatment can make a big difference in the next few days and the rest of your life. Remember, you are going into a lead lined hospital room where they are going to give you a radioactive substance to ingest. The room will be covered with disposable gloves on light switches, disposable pads on the floors and a plastic bag over the phone. With the exception of reading glasses, which they will clean, nothing you take in with you can come back out. Set the scene. Bring some flowers and pictures from home printed from your Inkjet printer on plain paper so you can just throw it away when you are done, but brighten up the room with something reminding you of why you are going through this. You are going to be in the room for awhile and you will feel isolated and possibly depressed by the end.
