My ENDO's office called as we were driving up to Irvine yesterday morning to watch Micah swim. Second time in a row they call while I am driving! Anyway, she had good news for me, again. She said my Tg levels were undetectable. Yay. Well, kind of.
I found out the following from the ThyCa email group: "My Tg may still be slightly elevated since I just had RAI and it is still working (the radiation continues to work for 6-12 months after the dosage), so that may be why my ENDO never mentioned it; he would only be concerned if my Tg remained elevated after 6-12 months." So, my Tg should still be elevated, but it isn't. Either that is a really good sign that RAI worked, or it is a false positive because I may have TgAb - the Thyroglobulin anitbodies which can make my Tg level look lower than it really is. He has never ordered a TgAb test for me. I think my HCC and the fact that my path report for my right lobe indicated Hashimoto's put me at high risk for having Tg antibodies. So, "Yay!", but then again, maybe not so yay.
I guess I still just wait and see at this point, but I won't really know much else until December. I have a few carefree months until I have to start to worry again.
In the meantime, I'm going to see if I can get to the ThyCa annual conference in Dallas October 15 & 16. I have an off-site dept meeting for work Oct 13 & 14, so I'm still trying to figure out my travel plans at this point, see if I can still get a reasonable flight.
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