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Thyroid Answers or not

October 23rd, 2007

Well, after all this talk about my thyroid, my blood pressure, the sensation of feeling choked, today was the day my doctor’s office called with my scan results.

My thyroid scan showed no change since my last scan in 2004. Plan of action? Come back to see the doctor on November 2nd.

In the meantime? Do I???? What? Do nothing? Because that is what I have been doing for three weeks. Sure I did the occasional change of medications to only feel worse and sure my blood pressure is down slightly, but beyond that? I’M THE SAME!!! and I’m tired of this feeling, it’s awful. I can live with almost everything, but this choking sensation, it’s going to lead me to the loony bin.

So, I did it. I called an endocrinologist. An endocrinologist in Chicago. And would you believe they had a cancellation and I have an appointment tomorrow? That’s serendipity at it’s finest. The only thing that could make the situation better would be if I could stop at Oprah’s when Seal is on, but whatever, I can’t. (by the way, his new song is amazing. FOCUS, BETH. FOCUS!)

The worst that can happen is I leave the appointment just as frustrated as I am now and having just spent extra money on gas to get there, I have to admit, I’ll be pretty frustrated, but I’ll never know until I go there. And if it’s not my thyroid then it’s something and I have to start somewhere.

Something is not right.

Wordless Wednesday

October 23rd, 2007

Lynette and I — Wii were having a fabulous time.

For more Wordless Wednesdays, go here or here.

Go here to enter my Dunkin’ Donuts coffee giveaway!

A Very Appropriate Giveway. it’s over!

October 22nd, 2007

The contest is over! Winners will be announced on Saturday, 10/27!

Friends, it’s a caffeinated extravaganza, here at I Should Be Folding Laundry.

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I love coffee. And that for the longest time, I had a love affair with Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. A deep, rich, rewarding love affair. But things have changed, maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s because ballet slippers are now in style, whatever it is, I have become very fond of McDonald’s coffee. I’ve posted about this in the past. Many. Times.

Well, the folks at Dunkin’ Donuts read about my latest fling with McDonald’s and well, they want me to give them another shot. And being a fair and free coffee lovin’ girl, well, I will give them another shot. And you can, too.

Dunkin’ Donuts has recently launched a new coffee line for home. Which means you can buy Dunkin’ Donuts coffee at your local grocery store.

Starting today and ending this Friday, October 26 at 9:00 p.m. CST, anyone who leaves a comment on this post will be entered to win. Five winners will win one 12 oz. bag of the new Dunkin’ Donuts packaged coffee original roast blend along with coffee brewing tips. All you have to do is leave a comment. And if you love coffee, then tell your readers about this fine contest, don’t be stingy – share the java joy.

In the meantime, if you are just jones-ing for a hot cup of good coffee, go here and Dunkin’ Donuts will send you a free sample. That’s right. Free.

Best of luck and Happy Coffee.

US residents only.

The Big Bang Theory

October 22nd, 2007

In my household we are dealing with some very important stuff. One issue in particular is causing me stress, it’s always in front of me and I can’t seem to figure out what to do with it.

Ariel’s Bangs.

I recently had decided to grow these suckers out. Why? Well, I think most girls at some point before puberty, have the desire
to grow out their bangs, right? So, I thought I would do it now. But also because her forehead is so cute! And small! Coming from a mother with a "tall" forehead, as my father likes to call it, I’d like to accentuate the petiteness of her forehead. I’m shallow like that. Honestly, when I pull her hair back in a headband or over to the side in a barrette, the cuteness runs straight to my heart and I go buy her things. You’d think she would be willing to show her forehead off more often.

Hence the problem.

She is constantly taking those headbands, barrettes AND CLIPS out out of her hair, no matter how lovely they are. I’m even more limited with my style options because a few weeks ago I tried to pull her bangs up on top of her head, a nice little pony sitting quietly on top of her head when she started FREAKING OUT and asking me to take it down because kids would laugh at her. KIDS WOULD LAUGH AT HER?!?!?!

And when I asked her if kids had laughed at her before, she said no and that she didn’t want to talk about it.

She’s four. And then I died because there is no way I can do this for another fifteen years and I sent her straight to therapy.

With a headband on, of course.

With that, I am constantly seeing a very large set of bangs.

She looks like at any moment she’s going to hop into an orange Mercury to attend a Def Leppard concert with a pack cigs in hand and a comb in her back pocket.

in 1985.

So, I’m tempted to cut them, which would be okay, because when she gets her bangs cut? She is so incredibly adorable, I love it…but that only lasts about two weeks before Operation Sweep The Bangs begins. It’s a daunting task this mothering a girl, just daunting!

So, if she won’t leave it like this…

I have no choice, I must do this:

A Mom has got to do, what a Mom has got to do.

The Hormones

October 21st, 2007

As if I’m not hormonal enough, let me tell you.

As most of you know, I’ve had some major high blood pressure/thyroid issues that the doctors are trying desperately to figure out.

Obviously because it’s been almost two weeks and I’m still undiagnosed, but whatever, I’m sure they are concerned, at least a little bit.

or not.

On Friday morning I went in for my long awaited thyroid ultrasound. I had pre-registered for my ultrasound the day before and walked into this tiny hospital at 9:28, with my crack coffee in hand, allowing myself PU-LENTY of time to get to the ultrasound room. Really, it’s small. Wal-Mart across the street is much bigger. I was stopped at the front desk and I told them that I had pre-registered, THANKYOUVERYMUCH and she was like "take a number, beyotch."

So, I did. I had number ONE. And I sat there, waiting for…no one. It was aggravating to say the least. I walked up at 9:40 and was like, "hi there, Sue. My appointment was at 9:30 and now I’m sitting here. Are the ultrasound folks going to think I didn’t show up?" And she was like "probably, you were supposed to be here early."

Oh really? Early? Because nobody told me that.

So, someone called the ultrasound folks and I sat back down. And continued to wait for absolutely nobody, because I was still number ONE.

I was called up to the desk and asked for all sorts of information. I thought maybe I had accidently applied for a small loan, but apparently I was in fact, in the right place. Sue proceeded to call the ultrasound folks, not knowing someone else did, and told them that Beth Folding Laundry had just arrived. Wha? Who? Who the Wha? I whipped my head around and looked at the clock and it said 9:48.

I know she di’int.

But, truly, I didn’t care. I’m totally hormonal. I went from wanting to shove the phone down her throat to wanting to hug her for being a jerk. whatever. I quit.

So, I went back to the ultrasound folks and had my ultrasound done on my thyroid. Which typically is not a big deal, but when your thyroid is swollen and you already have the someone is trying to choke me feeling all of the time, that little wand adds a lot of pressure. Let’s just say I was glad to be in my car with my crack coffee when that ordeal was over with.

Which leads me to yesterday, yes ya’ll, I have a point. I woke up and took my thyroid meds and blood pressure meds (among other medications not listed), and yes, I use a daily pill holder because I’m EIGHTY. About 30 minutes went by when my body started to freak out. I had already felt feverish when I woke up, but I started to feel real bad. Fever (100.6), high pulse (105! resting), high blood pressure (freakin’ high).

And the tightening around my throat??? Almost to the point where I go to the emergency room. So, instead, I called my doctor on a Saturday morning.

I CALLED MY DOCTOR ON A SATURDAY MORNING. I still can not believe I did that, but … I had to. He called me back and apparently, that little wand on my throat, where my thyroid is, released hormones from my thyroid into my body. So, when I woke up and took my dose of additional thyroid?

My body lost it’s ever loving mind.

It was quite a day, filled with MANY, MANY HORMONES! And a lot of naps and my heart beat more yesterday than it has in my thirty years combined, but hey, I survived and today, I’m better, I think.

I hope.

And so does my husband.

And so does my doctor, after all, I pulled the I’ll call you on Saturday card, I think I may have a diagnosis sometime within the hour.

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