Butterfly Wings

This week, in Australia anyway, is Thyroid Awareness Week. I don’t agree with everything they say on this site, but for more information, please click here.

I haven’t really explained this much yet, but the reason I chose the butterfly as my theme for this blog is because I started out my most recent health investigations with a focus on my thyroid. Since then I’ve been looking at a lot of other issues, but the thyroid was the springboard. The Australian Thyroid Foundation uses a gold bow (because of the shape of the thyroid gland) but other organisations use the butterfly (again, because of the shape). I’m sure I’ve seen a website for an organisation that specifically uses a purple butterfly for thyroid cancer, but I can’t find it now… purple is the colour used for thyroid cancer awareness. That was just coincidence - I like purple, so I chose purple.