Hi, all. In memory of my brother, Jordan, who was a Hashimoto’s patient, I’m trying to
get better treatment for thyroid patients through a petition I’m doing. Thyroid affects how every cell and organ functions and carries on metabolism, so it’s important that it
works right. Many people with thyroid issues have not been taken seriously
enough over the years by the medical and pharmaceutical communities, and it
needs to stop. I’m hoping you’ll sign and share this petition. Here’s the link: www.change.org/...
I think Jordan had undiagnosed & untreated thyroid for too many years,
and it led to his liver going bad. He ended up in the hospital in 2015 where his
liver got diagnosed, and I begged them to run thyroid tests—because I felt there was
a connection. We have a big family history of thyroid trouble, and Jordan didn’t even
drink or anything to have a bad liver. He had low thyroid symptoms for years, though.
At the hospital, the typical thyroid tests came out “normal,” as usual…
But I did more research, and I found that if you get blood tests for thyroid antibodies,
these can sometimes show there’s a thyroid problem, even if the usual tests are OK.
I had to beg the doctors to run these tests. Finally did, and Jordan was diagnosed
with Hashimoto’s autoimmune thyroid. He started treatment, and it helped to some
extent, but it wasn’t enough to repair the liver damage done.
It shouldn’t have come to all this. It should’ve been caught, a lot earlier. I think his
liver would’ve functioned better then, and he wouldn’t have ended up needing a
liver transplant, which we couldn’t get in time, due to Covid. We came very close,
but right when he was in the hospital again, waiting for a new liver in March 2020,
they stopped getting donor organs and doing transplant surgeries because of the
virus. Needless to say, I am heartbroken!!
My petition asks the Biden Administration to help with more funding for research
into better treatments for thyroid patients (which includes me, as I struggle
with them), earlier & better testing and diagnosis of thyroid problems, better
education for doctors on how treating the thyroid well can help prevent other
health problems from happening, better oversight of the drugs we already have,
etc. Please consider signing and sharing my petition. Maybe it could help you,
or someone you love in the future.
Jordan was the last member of my immediate family—he tried to look out for me
with all the health trouble I’ve had due to thyroid, and I tried to look out for him
as best I could. I couldn’t do well enough for him or our mom with this thyroid
issue, and it wasn’t all my fault because changes need to be made regarding
thyroid patients and how they’re treated, in so many ways. Thank you for reading
this, and for any support you might give. If the petition link doesn’t work, you
can also find it on my Facebook page for it called, Thyroid Patients Need Better
Treatment NOW. https://www.facebook.com/ThyroidNow
Thank you, again….from Jordan’s sister, Starr D.