If I haven’t been around here this weekend what have I been doing? I feel like I’ve been watching the Olympics, sleeping, and eating. That’s it. My thyroid has my sleep schedule so off again that it’s hard to really do anything. I’ve been sleeping in shifts of 2-3 hours at a time, waking up with another lump on my throat, laying in bed watching tv for a couple hours, and falling back asleep.
I’ve started the same load of laundry 4 times because I keep falling asleep before I make it to put them in the dryer. Hubby’s two rules in life are that he doesn’t do laundry or mop. I don’t know if it’s my thyroid causing it or just my hormones in general, but I feel like my entire upper body is one big pimple right now. Just when my face and shoulders finally cleared up last week, now I’m in need of some serious blemish acne cream again.
As for my thyroid, I decided not to call my family doctor tomorrow. Instead I’m going to go to another emergency care/I don’t have a regular doctor type clinic that opened up a few months ago closer to me. I haven’t been there yet, and there’s a pretty good chance my neck will swell again sometime during the day since it’s been that way all weekend. If it does I’m going to walk in there while there’s a visible lump, and let’s see what that doctor has to say about it. Maybe he’ll end up being more helpful, maybe not, but at least it’s another option.
I’ll still schedule an appointment with my family doctor if I need to, but I just want to use this to see if I can maybe get yet another opinion, so it’s worth a shot. I’ve also printed out a list of tests that both my normal doctor and the endocrinologist I saw have both failed to run on me. We’ll just see where things go from here.
Now let’s see if I can start that load of laundry again and actually remember to put it in the dryer this time. Somebody…anybody feel free to send me a big ‘ole Twitter message in about 30 minutes reminding me to put the clothes in the dryer! I’m going to set myself an alarm on my cell phone anyway. Let’s hope these clothes actually get dry tonight or Hubby’s going to work in wet shorts.
Tags: forgetting the laundry, hashimoto's, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, olympics, thyroid
