{"id":293,"date":"2018-03-28T07:36:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T07:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/?p=293"},"modified":"2018-04-07T08:10:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T08:10:42","slug":"scar-and-scarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/scar-and-scarf\/","title":{"rendered":"Scar and scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/333scarf\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-319\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/546\/2018\/04\/333scarf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/546\/2018\/04\/333scarf.png 333w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/546\/2018\/04\/333scarf-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/546\/2018\/04\/333scarf-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/546\/2018\/04\/333scarf-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/546\/2018\/04\/333scarf-40x40.png 40w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/546\/2018\/04\/333scarf-200x200.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4 photos to represent part of my journey through surgery for thyroid cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo 1 &#8211;<br \/>\nBefore diagnosis I felt healthy and did not realise there was anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard the news I was shocked, anxious and low.<\/p>\n<p>A friend helped by arranging a second medical opinion for me.<\/p>\n<p>Photo 2 &#8211;<br \/>\nFollowing surgery I was anxious about the symptoms I was experiencing such as loss of voice from temporary vocal nerve bruising.<\/p>\n<p>Once I started recovering I became anxious about the scar on my neck.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family came to the hospital and helped me at home initially.<\/p>\n<p>Photo 3 &#8211;<br \/>\nI was conscious of my scar for a while, worrying people would notice it and judge me as an unhealthy person.<\/p>\n<p>I started covering my neck with scarves, necklaces and polo necks.<\/p>\n<p>Friends even bought me scarves.<\/p>\n<p>Photo 4 &#8211;<br \/>\nFeeling better again, scar fading, not covering neck and health less on mind.<\/p>\n<p>Back to normal life and time with friends and family. Although not feeling quite as invincible as I was prior to diagnosis and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4 photos to represent part of my journey through surgery for thyroid cancer. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Photo 1 - Before diagnosis I felt healthy and did [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resilience","category-thyroid-cancer","category-young-people"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cancerservicesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}