Scorching the World

I have a very sore throat. It hurts to swallow. My head hurts, but not like a headache, more like a sore throat ache. My neck hurts - I guess swollen glands. Its been all week, and every day I think I'm getting better, but then I'm really not. I'm tired of this. I've been thinking of lots of other things I'm tired of. I'm tired of working so hard to be thinner. I'm tired of being the fat one in the family. I have to focus constantly on not overeating. I'm tired of having to brush my teeth all the time. I'd like to take a vacation from that. and from flossing. I'm tired of having to make sure I exercise every day. I'm tired of worrying about my cholesterol and blood pressure. Other people I know don't exercise and they don't worry about cholesterol and blood pressure. and of worrying about getting my visiting teaching done every month. and of staying on a budget and watching the pennies so closely. and of focusing on drinking plenty of...

Normal TSH is 0.2 - 5.5 5/28/05 TSH tested 4.3 5/2008 TSH tested 6 10/18/08 TSH tested 11.1 Symptoms all this year - feeling anxious and stressed even tho I'm not stressed about anything; heart pain even in the middle of the night; inability to sleep even when exhausted; feeling like I need to go run and never stop even tho I'm too tired to make myself do it. Started taking Levothroid on 10/27/08. 12/9/08 TSH tested 4.7 1/28/09 TSH tested 8 for the past - well, long time, I've still been having chest pain, to the point that it wakes me up at night. I finally emailed the dr and he told me to get lab tests and then get an appointment. Apparently it was getting better, and then started to climb again. So I saw the dr today, and he said I still have low thyroid, and the reason my heart hurts and I have anxiety issues isn't connected to the thyroid. He did double the thyroid meds, and also he did an ekg, which was normal. 2/9/09 Now he set me up for a 24 urine collection tes...

Disclaimer: I realize my life is most interesting to me. I never expect any posterity to take any real interest in stuff like this, but I like to record for my own memory. In other words, this isn't meant to be interesting to anyone but me. I just need to record what Tom and I did this weekend. On Thursday, I had planned to go to the Church during mutual so I could practice the organ, but Tanya called with a better offer. I went to her Ward's once-a-year Christmas crafts enrichment. That is always so fun, but since she is in Nursery, she didn't know about any of the crafts in time for me to sign up to do anything. So I spent the evening following her around and helping her with her crafts. It was still pretty fun even tho I feel guilty for not practicing the organ. How can I expect to be blessed if I don't.... etc. I left in time to get home before Tom. He had gone to the Bay Area for the 3rd time this week and was supposed to be home about 9:30. Course things always ta...

Holy cow! In the time I've been blogging (hee hee, something I never thought I would do) I've never actually looked at my blog, so I never knew all this time that other people are actually reading what I write and making comments! How nice to come in and find that there have been comments! Wow, I feel so - read . I guess I better try to be more interesting.

Today before Church, my friend was laughing and said she just saw a little girl from the primary who was wearing a really lovely little dress and carrying a pair of pink cowboy boots. She said, "I guess you're never too young for cute, uncomfortable shoes."

I spent the whole last week at Trina's while her whole family was camping in Big Basin. Why would I do that? I asked myself that very question many times during the week. Something possessed me to volunteer to rip out her carpet and finish her wood floor for her while they were all gone for the week. She has wanted it done for many years, and if it didn't get done this year before the summer ended, it wouldn't get done until after her baby that is due in February is old enough to entertain himself while she took on a massive project. And there was always the problem of her not really ever having time, and how do you keep a while family off the floor while it smells really bad and dries - and where do they all go? How can she pull out all the furniture with a family of 7 living there? So I convinced her that there was no way than for me to do it while they were all away at a school family camp. Then, as long as I was ripping out carpet and varnishing the wood, I might as...