Friday, February 22, 2002
Explanations - or, a few things you need to know before you start freaking out.
Item firstus - I'm OK. Really. I feel good. My most serious health hazard is cutting some integral part of me off in the sheet metal shop because of lack of sleep due to a teething baby. As far as I can find out, your thyroid doesn't do much of anything. It does have something to do with appetites, which may explain my insatiable interest in, er, well that too, but also dairy products and chocolate. I'd love to hear from everybody but don't think it's vital because you may never get to say goodbye or anything. (I'll expect you all at the wake though) *snicker* I am DEEPLY touched by the concern though, and that has really made me feel good, if a little embarassed by all the fuss. Thanks.
Number Second - The quote for the blog is from Over the Hedge, quite possibly my favorite published newspaper comic. Go to comics.com and check them out. I just have to give credit where credit is due.
We now return to our regularly scheduled ranting and rambling.
Oh, and do you think there must be some magic to the date today? 2-22-02, two cool!
Item firstus - I'm OK. Really. I feel good. My most serious health hazard is cutting some integral part of me off in the sheet metal shop because of lack of sleep due to a teething baby. As far as I can find out, your thyroid doesn't do much of anything. It does have something to do with appetites, which may explain my insatiable interest in, er, well that too, but also dairy products and chocolate. I'd love to hear from everybody but don't think it's vital because you may never get to say goodbye or anything. (I'll expect you all at the wake though) *snicker* I am DEEPLY touched by the concern though, and that has really made me feel good, if a little embarassed by all the fuss. Thanks.
Number Second - The quote for the blog is from Over the Hedge, quite possibly my favorite published newspaper comic. Go to comics.com and check them out. I just have to give credit where credit is due.
We now return to our regularly scheduled ranting and rambling.
Oh, and do you think there must be some magic to the date today? 2-22-02, two cool!
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
For those of you who may be wondering. I am still alive. Not much new to relay really. I have a month until the dye in my system from the CT scan is cleared so they can do an MRI on the lumps on my thyroid gland. They found those when they did the chest Xrays for pnuemonia, which I had. Actually they noticed a thickening in my peri-tracheal lining. Turned out that that was just normal anatomy for me, go fig, my parts are thicker than normal.... But the CT scan of my upper chest did also show the lumps on my thyroid, which was confirmed by ultrasound. I've decided not to worry about it. If it's any comfort I'm told that thyroid cancer is easy to recover from and you can live without your thyroid as long as you take your medication. It may well not be cancer anyway, could be just cysts, which are treatable or removable, or a goiter, which my grandfather had. Goiters are also treatable and you don't have to have anything removed, I just thought they only happened to poorly fed people in Papua New Guinea and stuff. I'm not going to worry about it anymore anyway. I've been to busy working on the house to worry about it. The upstairs now has a floor, one foot lower than the original floor was. This means of course that the ceiling on the main floor is one foot lower too. We went from 9 foot ceiling height to 8, very standard. The roof line has been altered too, we now have a dormer in the south side of the roof to make room for a bathroom. I need to get the window for it so we can finish framing. Eventually there will be 2 bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs where there originally was just a walk up attic. I spend most of my evenings over there and all of my weekends, which would answer why I haven't been very good about this thing. I'm just spewing forth this load of info without any why's or wherefore's. If you want an explanation you'll have to contact me because I need interaction goddammit!
