Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't already wake up each morning and personally greet each and every one of your body parts, I suggest that you start doing so. As it turns out, body organs can get a little, well, jealous if they aren't getting equal attention.
My thyroid was a little annoyed that my GI system had been getting so much attention and it staged a temper tantrum. A very large temper tantrum, I might add. I have Graves Disease (auto-immune disease that causes a hyperactive thyroid) but it had been in remission for a little over a year. Needless to say, it is no longer in remission and is back and means business.
In case you are unfamiliar with the workings of the thyroid, it controls how quickly the body uses energy (food) and makes proteins and it also determines how sensitive the body is to other hormones. The thyroid creates additional hormones that regulate your metabolism and affect the rate of function of many other systems in the body (how fast your heart beats, how many tears your eyes produce, etc).
As my dear pal Captain Obvious might add, when you already have significant "struggles" with metabolizing food, absorbing vitamins and getting your blood to flow...a thyroid issue isn't exactly ideal.
To say that my thyroid levels have reached hot-mess status is putting it mildly and my endocrinologist was a little aghast that I had not picked up on this sooner...until he realized that each and every symptom of Graves is a ramped up, yet plausible, symptom of something else going on in my body. Oops.
So for now, I wait (semi-patiently) and hope the medicine does its job in a timely fashion. In the mean-time, I get to spend some quality time with the Scorpion (my all-star dust buster....duh) as I suck up all of the hair that has fallen out of my head. Luckily for me, it is summer time and the ponytail is totally IN on the red carpet...phew.
I wonder if body organs can write a slip to meet with the counselor?
It might be time for conflict mediation...
Lydia, I probably don't say this enough, but you are always in my thoughts and prayers. As so many others have said before me, I am in awe of your attitude. I know it's not easy, but keep looking for the bright side, know that you are loved, and that you have a huge cheering section of friends and family who will be with you every step of the way. Hugs from NYC.
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