Natalia Lumen shares her journey of recovery in this article published in the BizJournals.com.
Careers often are waylaid by personal crises including disease, but sometimes, for the fortunate like Natalia Lumen, crises write new career chapters.
Recovery from thyroid cancer was a monumental challenge. Prior to diagnosis, I was pursuing a successful career as a management consultant at Bain & Co, traveling the world, and enjoying all the good things that life had to offer.
Needless to say, being diagnosed with thyroid cancer and having to quit my career to go through multiple surgeries and radioactive iodine treatment caught me by complete surprise.
As the dust settled on my health battles, I found myself confronted by a different kind of inconvenience — the constant need to track my blood test results, changes in medication dosages, symptoms and more with my only tool being a spreadsheet. The process was tedious, and the worry about missing life-saving medication stressed me constantly.
Frustrated, I decided to share my plight with an online thyroid group, announcing my intention to develop an app that could streamline this process. I asked if anyone would be interested in testing it for me. While I was expecting five to 10 responses, a few hundred people signed up within 24 hours.
This overwhelming response was a defining moment. It made me realize that the “struggle was real” for millions of individuals who, like me, needed a better way to manage their thyroid health. It was this specific and heartwarming reaction from the thyroid community that set the plan in motion for ThyForLife Health
ThyForLife, my brainchild, is an innovative healthcare solution designed to empower individuals managing thyroid conditions. As a female founder, immigrant, mother, and cancer survivor, the entrepreneurial road has been far from easy. However, I have managed to find incredible success in building a solution that is already actively making a difference in thousands of people’s lives each day.
Visit www.thyforlife.com, to learn more about thyroid health support.
Read the full article, In Her Own Words, on BizJournals.com.