Days of Grace 3-4-10
1. It was nice being at the Realm of Pain for less than a full day. Also, my April schedule is much improved, though since I suspect the Assistant Manager will be promoted away from the branch this month, I also suspect my new, groovy, Sane Branch schedule is worth much less than the paper it’s printed on. But for the moment? I’m rather happy with it.
2. I learned that my SIL had the same thing I’ve got going on in her 2nd pregnancy. She had to have the radioactive iodine treatment about 9 months after her daughter was born, but she hasn’t gone hypothyroid yet. (20 years ago) So I’m hoping to be just like her. Actually, I wish that in a lot of ways, she’s awesome, but especially in thyroidic ways…
3. I really love my OB’s office. There was an unexpected delay before my appointment yesterday (he had to run – literally – to go catch a baby) so the office staff & remaining patients sat around and chatted. Such a nice difference from being at the RE’s clinic – oh, and it turned out that everyone in that waiting room was a former patient of my RE’s – where everyone’s too wrapped up in misery to do more than nod. I heard about the nurse’s Costa Rica vacation, the difficulties of trying to get a ticket to Israel right before Sukkot, and the mumps epidemic going on in Brooklyn right now.
4. Cereal is still my friend in the morning, and I was able to find the last box of my favorite kind at the health food store yesterday. Don’t know what I’ll do when this runs out, if they haven’t started stocking it again…
5. Snow’s almost completely melted (just in time for another storm). But I was getting tired of slipping on ice – not to mention worried about the whole exploding-manhole-cover possibility of the street outside our house. Dry weather for a while would be nice.
I’m sorry about your thyroid issues, but it’s awesome you were able to get into to see someone right away. It’s pretty unforgivable that your doc hasn’t been testing at least TSH since you got your BFP, I think mine has already been tested 4 times in my 13 weeks but maybe that’s because I have a history of thyroid issues.
I have Graves disease, an autoimmune condition that causes you to be severely hyperthyroid, I also had the RAI treatment (like your SIL) – no big deal, just swallowing 2 pills in a padded room and being warned to stay away from kids for a few days (hard to do with the sprogs, I know). However, with me, I swung hypothryoid almost immediately, which was really tough — going from sweat and shaking to depression and exhaustion. However, it’s an easy manage – I pop a synthroid pill each morning, get my levels checked a couple of times a year (when not preggo) and go on my merry way. I hope you also don’t swing hypo since yours is pg-caused, but just wanted to let you know that if you did, it’s not all that bad.
Susan Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Thank you – it’s just feeling like the straw that wants to break my back at the moment. But it’s reassuring that it’s not so bad, even “worst case” scenario.
I suppose it does make it seem even more stigmatizing at the RE’s when no one looks at each other much less speaks. And I am so guilty of that. PB always wants to chat someone up, and I smack him on the arm. Not because I’m embarrassed, but because I worry about their feelings. It’s silly, I know. I imagine it would be nice to actually be able to chat in the dr’s office like a normal person.
my kitty cat went hyperthyroid and she went off to a place called “hypurrcat”. for 2k she was given the radioactive iodine and isolated for a week. totally cured.