Hi Liz,

Your last line made me smile...just ask margaret hupe...the one whose life is crumbling around her. :-)

Dan was a model patient and incredibly appreciate of all that I did to help him through treatments. However, he has not returned to the "old Dan"...and, the side effects of his current thyroid problem are very troubling. The fact that he lost his job due to the economy and the company downsizing hasn't helped a bit.

He is moody, depressed, fatigued, irritable, and sees me as the enemy right now. I don't know how much of this is being pissed off about what he went through w/ the cancer treatments, anger/depression over the job loss or the side effects of the thyroid issue.

When at home, he spends his entire time in the basement...(which houses our large screen tv) and doesn't talk to me. When he sees a friend, he acts like everything is normal and life couldn't be better.