Intro

Hi everyone!!  My name is Jayme and I'm a nurse in endocrinology at the University of Pennsylvania.  Please join me along with Danielle (nurse) and Lesly (PSR) as we venture through the LOW IODINE DIET!  Danielle and I meet regularly with patients who have recently had surgery for thyroid cancer.  Surgery is, more often than not, followed by "radioiodine ablation"- getting rid of any thyroid tissue that might still be hanging out.  Before the ablation comes the low iodine diet...and this is where we come in.

We've both said the words countless times about replacing half & half with non-dairy creamer, snacking on unsalted peanuts and rice cakes, and kissing seafood goodbye, but now, we're practicing what we preach.  We're hoping that our blog will be a site for our future audiences  to come for recipes, support, and ideas, and for our veterans to share some survival tips!  We're going to set the stage with documentation of our own ten day journey- complete with videos that will make you laugh and recipes that will hopefully fill you up!  Here we go!