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lunabee341. I am so grateful to finally be diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease. I’ve been doing some research since my diagnosis, and it explains so much about the way I’ve been feeling since Fiona was born. (Although the autoimmune disorder pre-dated my pregnancy with Feefers, many women start to notice thyroid symptoms after a pregnancy because the baby eats up what little thyroid you have left LOL) My exceedingly dry skin? That two month period when my hair kept falling out in clumps? The way I am cold all the time now after having spent thirty three years as a hot, sweaty mess? The way I constantly cycle between diarrhea and constipation? The insomnia, the night sweats? The way I’ve had trouble concentrating and felt mentally foggy (I actually told Josh I thought I’d gotten stupider over the past couple years)? The up-tick in anxiety and anger? Check, check, and check. I can’t tell you what it means to have confirmation that something is wrong with me, a mechanism that ties most of the symptoms that bother me together under one roof, and validation that it’s not just all in my head.
2. My arthritis is killing me. I have always called it being double-jointed, but I’m sure there’s an actual term for what happens when my knee cap dislocates and slides to the side of my leg before popping back into place. That happened enough when I was a kid/teen that I had an MRI after a particularly painful episode. All that popping in and out of place had already worn each meniscus down to nothing, and that was at 15. The doctor diagnosed me at that point with degenerative arthritis, and beginning in my early twenties when we moved to Oxford, my knees have bothered me off and on. Usually, it’s a constant, low level of pain that I don’t even notice anymore, but in the past couple weeks, I have been in almost unremitting agony while sitting or lying down. The only time my knees have ever hurt this bad was when I was pregnant with Emma; your joints soften in pregnancy so your hips can be pushed farther apart, which translated into me being on crutches and/or Josh having to carry me down stairs for a couple months of the first trimester. I kinda don’t know what to do. I am really resistant to the idea of just taking painkillers all day every day. But I’m rapidly losing patience with this level of pain.
3. Fiona has formally been diagnosed with asthma. At her follow-up chest X-Ray, the pneumonia was gone, but her lungs were still very congested. We now are doing two breathing treatments per day until she’s old enough to operate an inhaler successfully. This started on Sunday, and it’s been a mixed bag. It’s an inhaled steroid, and the first day, it made her wild. She’s calmed down and is getting used to it, I think, but she’s not quite herself. On the plus side, she’s sleeping so much better. She’s quit coughing at night since we started this regimen.
4. I have questions/concerns about where The Walking Dead is going to go from here. I think the show has two options: A) The group has some growing pains fitting into the Alexandria Compound, but it’s safe and they can stay there. The show ends. They have spent so many seasons racheting up the tension and the danger and the suspense that I don’t think I am interested in the conflict shifting to interpersonal conflict. I think I would get really bored with a show centered around them all becoming happy. I want them to have a happy ending, but I want to see that they’ll be happy and then it end. B) They have some growing pains and then the place goes to shit and they have to leave or defend it or whatever, and it’s back on the road. I don’t really want them to have to be living that hand to mouth anymore, but I want something more like the prison season. They were in one place that was relatively safe but it was still tense and dangerous. If the show can achieve that balance again, I’ll be satisfied. I have a couple predictions: haircutting lady’s husband is abusive and is going to clash with Rick; Carl and the loner girl will get up to some kind of shenanigans that put them both in danger; the people in the compound are essentially good; Deanna’s ROTC kid will continue to clash with Rick’s group; the guy who's been following them is the one who took Rick's gun; Carol will hold Daryl down and hose him off while wearing a Christmas cardigan and front-pleat slacks.
5. Gotham was sooooo good last night. The scene at the end with Cobblepot was gold. A friend had been lamenting to me at lunch that he’d seemed to have lost his teeth, gone a bit too sniveling for her in the past few episodes. Welp, that was a nice counterpoint to the sniveling. Although I personally adore the sniveling. LOL I was a little irritated at the way Fish Moony went about her power play. As long as she stayed in the basement, her plan was rock solid. The second she left she lost every single bit of leverage she had. That made no sense to me. Although, her, “You take nothing from me, motherfuckers!!!” while gouging out her own eye was pretty glorious.
6. I realize this may be an unpopular opinion, but I very unironically enjoy The Big Bang Theory, and I’ve been thinking about where the show will go next. I’ve decided it’s babies! I think the show is going to have either Penny or Bernadette get pregnant. *rubs hands together gleefully*
2. My arthritis is killing me. I have always called it being double-jointed, but I’m sure there’s an actual term for what happens when my knee cap dislocates and slides to the side of my leg before popping back into place. That happened enough when I was a kid/teen that I had an MRI after a particularly painful episode. All that popping in and out of place had already worn each meniscus down to nothing, and that was at 15. The doctor diagnosed me at that point with degenerative arthritis, and beginning in my early twenties when we moved to Oxford, my knees have bothered me off and on. Usually, it’s a constant, low level of pain that I don’t even notice anymore, but in the past couple weeks, I have been in almost unremitting agony while sitting or lying down. The only time my knees have ever hurt this bad was when I was pregnant with Emma; your joints soften in pregnancy so your hips can be pushed farther apart, which translated into me being on crutches and/or Josh having to carry me down stairs for a couple months of the first trimester. I kinda don’t know what to do. I am really resistant to the idea of just taking painkillers all day every day. But I’m rapidly losing patience with this level of pain.
3. Fiona has formally been diagnosed with asthma. At her follow-up chest X-Ray, the pneumonia was gone, but her lungs were still very congested. We now are doing two breathing treatments per day until she’s old enough to operate an inhaler successfully. This started on Sunday, and it’s been a mixed bag. It’s an inhaled steroid, and the first day, it made her wild. She’s calmed down and is getting used to it, I think, but she’s not quite herself. On the plus side, she’s sleeping so much better. She’s quit coughing at night since we started this regimen.
4. I have questions/concerns about where The Walking Dead is going to go from here. I think the show has two options: A) The group has some growing pains fitting into the Alexandria Compound, but it’s safe and they can stay there. The show ends. They have spent so many seasons racheting up the tension and the danger and the suspense that I don’t think I am interested in the conflict shifting to interpersonal conflict. I think I would get really bored with a show centered around them all becoming happy. I want them to have a happy ending, but I want to see that they’ll be happy and then it end. B) They have some growing pains and then the place goes to shit and they have to leave or defend it or whatever, and it’s back on the road. I don’t really want them to have to be living that hand to mouth anymore, but I want something more like the prison season. They were in one place that was relatively safe but it was still tense and dangerous. If the show can achieve that balance again, I’ll be satisfied. I have a couple predictions: haircutting lady’s husband is abusive and is going to clash with Rick; Carl and the loner girl will get up to some kind of shenanigans that put them both in danger; the people in the compound are essentially good; Deanna’s ROTC kid will continue to clash with Rick’s group; the guy who's been following them is the one who took Rick's gun; Carol will hold Daryl down and hose him off while wearing a Christmas cardigan and front-pleat slacks.
5. Gotham was sooooo good last night. The scene at the end with Cobblepot was gold. A friend had been lamenting to me at lunch that he’d seemed to have lost his teeth, gone a bit too sniveling for her in the past few episodes. Welp, that was a nice counterpoint to the sniveling. Although I personally adore the sniveling. LOL I was a little irritated at the way Fish Moony went about her power play. As long as she stayed in the basement, her plan was rock solid. The second she left she lost every single bit of leverage she had. That made no sense to me. Although, her, “You take nothing from me, motherfuckers!!!” while gouging out her own eye was pretty glorious.
6. I realize this may be an unpopular opinion, but I very unironically enjoy The Big Bang Theory, and I’ve been thinking about where the show will go next. I’ve decided it’s babies! I think the show is going to have either Penny or Bernadette get pregnant. *rubs hands together gleefully*
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Date: 2015-03-04 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-03-04 04:35 pm (UTC)I'm so glad to hear you've got an actual diagnosis. *hugs* It must be a huge relief.
I hope Fiona adjusts quickly, and meanwhile, yay for her sleep being improved!
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Date: 2015-03-05 12:05 am (UTC)Fee is a trooper; she gets squirmy during a treatment (they last between 10-15 minutes), but she doesn't throw a fit, so yay!
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Date: 2015-03-04 07:48 pm (UTC)And I do have head canon.
Also, the flat notes have been excellent jumping off points for discussions with the kiddo, dissecting exactly those problematic assumptions.
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Date: 2015-03-05 12:07 am (UTC)But I do love it. I generally find it very funny, and I don't have the same problems with the show that lots of people seem to.
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Date: 2015-03-05 04:01 am (UTC)RE: #3 poor kid.
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Date: 2015-03-07 02:38 am (UTC)She seems to be doing pretty good. Now we'll just see if we all can survive the time change. LOL