Hello all - its sad to hear that people have struggled with mental health problems - they are so hard to cope with, jane and MAS - your hospital episodes must have been very difficult - but you've both done so brilliantly in dealing with our problems. - I think I've mentioned before that my DS has mental health problems and I am on AD's - it is such a common thing, but often so misunderstood.
RightTit - hooray for clear margins and lymph nodes - definitely worthy of champagne , and OneInEight - keep taking it easy, jammy doughnuts are essential to your recovery - well done your mum!
Cakes - poor DH, how scary for him, I'm glad the NY trip is off and he can concentrate on getting well. I've lorazepam and find it works quite well, and helps you get off to sleep and feel calmer without making you feel too groggy the next day.
Amber and topsy - well done on getting todays rads out of the way - another one ticked off the list 
Don't work too hard Smee
Well I've had my radio active iodine. First thing that spooked me was that I had to go to the place where I had my bone scans - which felt weird. Then I had the injection of dye, waited twenty mins. and had a thyroid scan - they put the scanner thing really low over your face for about five minutes - so a bit claustrophobic - I did my deep breathing! 
Then Dr Chernobyl gave me my stuff - it comes in a little bottle which is inside a big thick lead container, which he holds because its so heavy and I had it drink it through a straw.
Apparently my thyroid is very overactive on the right side, but less so on the left, and the most over active part tends to hog the medication, so he said I might have trouble with the right side in future as it won't be able to take up much Rad.Iodine.
The best thing was that I set off the radioactivity alarm as I walked out of the room which DH thought hilarious.
I have ginger nuts, mint imperials and a double decker. Diet starts tomorrow!
Love to all - sorry for length of post.