December 10, 2008
Wednesday
I feel, sometimes, like I'm living my own private kinda-sorta version of Ground Hog Day. The only difference is that the places change and the players change but it's still the same kind of situations over and over again.
I'm not making progress in the areas I wanted to make progress in. I still don't have a degree and I have no idea when I'm going to have the money to go back to school. That bothers me. I planned, about 5 years ago, to have at least an Associates by now. All those classes i took, by the time I get back to school, I'll have to probably retake them.
I still know what I want to do, that hasn't changed. I still want my Bachelors of Science and at least an Associate degree of some kind. I still want to teach high school English or Science.
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I've been doing a lot of research into the medical conditions that I have. The hypothyroidism for which I have to take Synthroid the rest of my life and the Fibromyalgia.
Books on vitamins and minerals, how the body uses the Thyroid gland, how and why it begins, things that can cause it, everything and I think there is a direct connection between these two conditions. So, I started tracking my medical history and all that. There are a lot of similarities between the two and several journal reports and books that I've read are saying that if you can get the Thyroid stuff under control, it will get RID of the Fibromyalgia symptoms.
It just doesn't make sense. I was in perfect shape, great health, never EVER had any health problems, rarely got sick and then bam. A big old one-two punch and that's been the last 8 or so years.
It really bothers me because as I get older, it's getting harder to manage and deal with the crap that comes along with it.
I'm taking a lot of vitamins and supplements and after going to the Endocrinologist up here in Raleigh, found out I was so completely in the red for Vitamin D that I've been having to take prescription Vitamin D once a week for 8 weeks. A lot of those symptoms match the thyroid/fibro symptoms.
So, I'm in week 6 of taking 80,000 UNITS of Vitamin D per week.
How exciting is all of THAT information!!!!
hah!
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The puppy sitting ended this evening.
Pshew!!!!! There is a good reason I take in older dogs!!!!
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I may not have been journaling faithfully for the past 2 or so years but I have kept my book reading log up to date. I am very proud to say that I managed to read approx. 60 books this year. That might not be a lot for some people but for me and the little amount of time to have to read? That's way better than the year before and the year before that.
I'm not WOW'd by that number but I am significantly more happy about it than I probably should be. Oh well.
Photo stuff:
Erica, August 2008
Kevin and Erica, August 2008
Recent Play List
What females have done cover's of Freddie Mercury's "mama" song? Anyone?
1. Never Leave Your Heart - Butterfly Boucher
"The moral to the story goes
Never leave your heart
In a box
Locked up
With cold cold ice
Never leave your heart
...Never leave your heart... alone"
That's it...got sidetracked.
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