Friday, October 03, 2008 , early morning

It’s been a rough couple of weeks

Financial issues aside, Pinto’s death aside… it’s been a difficult couple of weeks.  I’m in the process of changing some medication and it’s been difficult, stressful, and exhausting.  I’ve also had so much blood work done that the veins in both arms have conked out and today I had to have blood taken from the back of my hand (among one of my least pleasant experiences).  I’m bruised, sore, tired, jumpy, and to top it all off, a random lab test showed that my thyroid gland is deader than, well, deader than John McCain’s campaign in Michigan.  If you know about such things, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease in 1999, and I’ve been on thyroid meds ever since.  However, even with the Hashimoto’s, my TSH was never higher than about 4.  My lab work from last week showed a TSH of 77, which is a few steps away from baldness and a coma (not that a nice long rest wouldn’t be welcome).  So, it’s off to the endocrinologist—will my thyroid be so inactive that he’ll want to remove it completely?  How much will that cost, and which Presidential candidate is offering a health insurance solution for those of us who can’t get any kind of insurance, no matter how many times we apply?  I’m definitely ready for a break in this big dark cloud which has been following us around, and want a healthy new start… maybe that’s asking for too much.  In any case, I wanted to explain this new absence, and to express hope that I’ll soon feel some sort of “perky” so I can blog on a regular basis.

On a related note, if you have any home remedies for restless leg syndrome (other than copious amounts of alcohol), I’d love to hear them!  If you’ve never experienced the phenomenon, just count yourself lucky, and don’t make fun of those of us dealing with it or karma will strike you down and give you “jimmy legs”.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 10/03 at 07:05 AM
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