Marcher13

Good morning everyone especially Lounging Gilmer.

I have woken up thinking it's Saturday (it's Friday) so it's going to be one of those days when I get the day and the date wrong. Maybe I'd better get that seniors' card.

Life how did you go yesterday after taking the medication? Was the day at work ok?

Babs? How are you going?

North we should be getting a happy happy post from you soon with the longest day approaching. Have you booked that winter break yet?

Have a good Thurfrisat peeps.

1Dayatatyme

Sass and Shoes: I want to thank you both for sharing your issues with your thyroid... I actually used to pray to get an overactive thyroid so that I would get skinny! Not anymore. It sounds like it is not one bit fun, and that it can be complex to treat and get under control.

Gilmer: Thanks to you for sharing about your cataract surgery. I am sure in the next several years it is something I may have to have done, as both aunts on my mom's side of the family had to have them removed. Your experience has lessened my fear and dread if/when I have to go through it.

I am so grateful that a lot of us are close in age in that we can relate to the daily life issues that go above and beyond staying clean and sober, although my recovery from substance abuse is my number one priority.

Saskia

1day, overactive thyroid doesn't necessarily mean weight loss - what a bummer! I wouldn't mind as much if there were a positive outcome. Unfortunately, slow thyroid does usually = weight gain. Definitely not worth the misery and hassles! It's a tricky little b*tch. I've had it since I was 11 and the theories have changed a lot over the years. Too much medication is not good for heart or bones! Be thankful if you have a relatively normal one. Mine got destroyed by an autoimmune disease. Just recently they seem to have found a connection between PTSD and Hashimoto's thyroiditis -and I have both.

tootsl1

Hi all a quick check in as I am off to bed,

VC (((((hugs))))) be well my dear one

Marcher when I used to help our postie there was a Burmese on one route that would meet me at the top of their road with a meowed hello, escort me up every path and drive then see me off with a meowed goodbye. Did it all the time. Sweet wee thing

Sass, just for you Haggis!!! Lol xx

Laters xx

1Dayatatyme

Sass... Seriously, there is a connection between PTSD and Hashimoto's? An acquaintance of mine had her thyroid removed and said she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's... she also has a lot of trauma in her life... began in childhood, and continued throughout... She is in her 20's now.
So... does the trauma cause the thyroid to malfunction by the release of adrenalin and other chemicals, or does the malfunctioning thyroid make a person less resilient in the face of chronic trauma?

Northlander

Hi all. Well, turned in the manuscript and was quite proud of all my hard work. Publisher rejected it.

My brilliant career may well be over.

But not going to drink over it.

Big love to all.

Dee74

Sorry for the rejection North - but great acclaim for your attitude

Shop it around?

D

Gilmer

Glad I could be of some help, 1Day!

North, I'm sorry about the manuscript. I agree with Dee--you should definitely shop it around! I'm glad you're not drinking, though.

Marcher13

North I'm proud of you for your attitude. You are in good company though, Marcel Proust had to vanity publish, James Joyce's The Dubliners was rejected 22 times before it was published and Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind) 30 times. I could go on but I won't, as with them there is more success waiting for you, I am confident of that.

Gilmer

Good night, Australians! Sleep tight!

Marcher13

A fillip for the weekend 29 signs that you are doing just fine

Night Gilmer.
Night John Boy.
Night everyone.

Saskia

1day, this is something I ran across just recently and gather it's a fairly recent theory. It was, I think, more an observed relationship which doesn't necessarily imply causation. As complex as the brain and hormonal systems are, the mechanisms could be subtle. In my case, trauma preceded thyroid diagnosis by about 6 or 7 years. However, back when I was diagnosed with a thyroid disorder, the tests were very unreliable. We don't know if I actually had Hashimoto's back then or if a way too huge dose of thyroid hormones caused it. So at this point it's one of those funky little factoids that may or may not mean anything.

North, sorry to hear about manuscript but think your attitude is great!

Toots, I don't want to hear the word haggis!

Shoes, yes the low thyroid fatigue sucks pond water. I find it difficult to separate t hose feelings and depression.

Gilmer, how's the eye? Are you still lounging?

Happy Friday to all!

Gilmer

Yes, indeed, Sass! Lounging is going to become a permanent part of my new healthy lifestyle! (Actually, it's never not been a part of my lifestyle! ).

In an hour I'll go have the bandage taken off and get checked. I'll never have 100% clear vision in that eye because of damage from the radiation I had in 2010; but it should be a lot better than it was. If I end up seeing double now, I could have cataract surgery on the other eye in a couple of weeks to even the eyesight out.

360shoes

Scr*w them North. Your career ain't over. You just need a new publisher. Good attitude on not drinking over their bad decision. ((North and his Dogs))

I just have the boring old run of the mill thyroid went kapoot...just like a few other things on my body. I really can't complain. I've been pretty healthy most of my life. I was more of a bone breaker beings I was a klutz more than getting inside the skeletal system illnesses.

I just hope I don't get Alzheimer's like my mom. That's was pretty awful.

I'm really mad. Went to Goodwill yesterday over lunch and I missed a 1950s pink mixer still in the box with the papers. It was adorable. Never used. Woman had in on the floor checking to make sure all the parts where there. I had to leave before I beat her over it.

I did find a fun old 60's wall phone. I hung it in my hallway.

My house is looking like an antique mall. I have issues.

Have a great weekend everyone! (((((((Hug))))))
xoxo

tootsl1

Shoes., some people actually 'live' their favourite era, dress, hairstyle speech patterns etc. if you start up with that, we may have to step in with an intervention. Others wise, go for it! Your house sounds wonderful. You should call it Kitche Kottage heehee

Haggis, er sorry I mean Sass, I love that kind of information, I will be off searching to he report now. Do you know much about over active thyroid? My daughter has a problem and she is always fatigued. We put it down to her shift work, but maybe there is more to it.

Gilmer, I hope all is good with the eye. At least if you do have double vision you have had years of practice coping with it.

North, how dare some us talented ignoramus tell you your baby isn't beautiful enough, you go show it to someone with more appreciation.

I will check in later my dears

Budd, 1day, Mesoso, life, duff, joy et al, big loves x

Gilmer

Au contraire, Shoes! Your house sounds really cool! My husband bought two antique pay phones in the 90s because he used to work to produce specialized pay phone systems in the 80s (the company and the technology both went by the wayside). He also worked on voicemail software for the first mobile phones (back then they called them car phones!).

My husband is now a wizard at writing voicemail programs. The next time you call a corporation and you are given 10 different menu options by an automated computer voice instead of a real live person, you'll know who to thank! (Please don't come firebomb our house!)

Don't you wish that he'd channeled his talents for good and not for evil?

Saskia

Dear Toots, my understanding is that either low or high thyroid can result in fatigue but I am not a doc and not an expert! Love, Haggis

Gilmer, glad to hear you enjoy l lounging and hope your vision is improved. I would have been babbling if I were told I had cancer in my eye! You are much braver than I am. Also, better keep your hubby out of sight - inventing those g-d awful voice mail trees should be a hanging offense!

Gilmer

My vision had been getting more and more blurry in my left eye over the course of a year, and it would come and go. Once I went to wipe a smudge off the left lens of my glasses--and there was no smudge. One day I was standing in the supermarket and my left eye got sort of dim, and I said, "That's it! There's something wrong with my eye!"

So I went to the eye doctor and he pooh-poohed me, saying that I just needed stronger glasses and maybe there was just the smallest hint of a cataract starting to form, but I didn't need to worry about that for years. He went through the motions of the exam.

Then he laid me back in the chair and looked deep into my eye with the coal miner's light on his forehead. He said, "Take back everything I just said! You have a mass in your eye!"

He was the one freaking, not me. I was glad to be vindicated: "I told you there was something wrong with my eye!" He got me in that day with the retina specialist, who did an ultrasound--and he got me an appointment with Wills Eye Institute in Philly, where they officially diagnosed it as ocular melanoma and killed the tumor with radiation. It was the size of a pencil eraser.

They have no idea what causes it--it's pretty rare. There's only one indicator they know: if a person has two different colored eyes, then the browner of the two eyes might get melanoma. My right eye is greyish-green, and my left eye is brownish-green, so there you go!

The doctor said I hqave a 75% chance that it'll never come back. But if it does, it won't come back in the eye--it'll come back in the liver or lungs, and I'll only have a 16% chance of survival.

If it comes back, then I'll babble! All in all, it was a pretty easy cancer to have. No pain; radiation was pinpointed with an implanted disc for four days, then finished; then three laser surgeries to burn out the dead tumor. Not bad compared to many other cancer horror stories!

Saskia

Gilmer, I still think you are very brave. Many people I know, myself included, would have really freaked out. It sounds like you have a very healthy attitude about it. You are a shining example - you totally rock!

Gilmer

Thanks, Sass!