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So, I’ve felt like a million different things were going on with my body, so I went and asked the doctor.

Doc took blood.  all my hormones came back fine, but my TSH was elevated.  So I repeated the bloodwork on Monday for TSH.  I should know tomorrow, but I expect that it’s still elevated and may have to treat my thyroids issue.  Hopefully this explains my excessive sweating and heat intolerance.

Had a mammogram. rt breast came back irregular, so I had to go back on Monday for a spot compression.  the lady said that it’s probably nothing, that because they didn’t have anything to compare to they have to be more vigilant.  So I’m not too worried but I’ll find out in a few weeks.
Went and had a sonohysterogram yesterday. First they did a regular ultrasound and found I have polycystic ovaries. This was a surprise to me because a few months after monkey was born I had an ultrasound because of pain in my abdomen – they were specifically looking for PCOS and they weren’t there.  Actually, the lady asked me if I was trying to concieve again because I was REALLY fertile… So I guess to treat it, they may put me on some hormone treatment or birth control.

After the ultrasound, they did a transvaginal then sonohysterogram.  When they put the saline in my uterus, they noticed a growth or polyp in my uterine lining.  So, next step is a DNC to clean out the polyp.  I will hopefully get that scheduled today. The doctor didn’t tell me any complications from any of the above, he sounded like it was all normal and routine stuff, but I did my little internet search and found out some complications that I don’t think I should dwell on just yet.  One of which is endometrium cancer.  So we shall see.

My mother is battling breast cancer for the second time in her life.  She strongly urged me to get a mammogram because of the history, so I obliged.  My OB wrote me a script for a mammogram and ultrasound.  Well, I had that done a week or two ago.  However Friday I got a call on my voicemail at work from the mammography place.  I called back this morning and they want me to come back.  The radiologist found some questionable areas in my right breast and she wants to take some additional views, spot compression or something.

Now, I’m only 29 years old.  I’ll be honest and say that I haven’t really done any self-exams because honestly, I have NO idea what to look for.  I did find this little ‘diagram’ though, and while I wasn’t too nervous initially, this doesn’t make me feel better…

Now, I had an ultrasound too, but the woman I spoke to (who could be a clueless receptionist) said that it’s probably nothing, since I had an ultrasound too, but who knows if they are telling me everything… probably not.

So today, I worry…

She couldn’t walk.  Her eye(s) were nearly swollen shut.  She was not herself.

her third birthday - no, she's not stoned...

J-bo later in the day

did I mention I was 8.5 months pregnant at the time?

The day before her admission to Children’s hospital, J-bo was not herself.  she would not walk, and claimed that any weight put on her left leg hurt.  Her eye was swollen again, and she was crying a lot.  When we woke up (a year ago today) I called her pediatrician and we got in asap.  It seems like we were there forever, but eventually they decided that Children’s Hospital was the way to go.  At this point, we had been to the doctors maybe 8 times in the previous month, presenting with SO MANY differnet symptoms and no one had a clue.  The doctor was afraid that we were missing something, that maybe she had something more serious.

 

For the next several days, J-bo would undergo x-rays, have her blood drawn far too often, see specialist after specialist.  She saw ortho, she saw infectious disease. She saw hematology and oncology…

I would stay with her the whole time, even in my largeness, sleeping on the window seat next to my daughter.  My husband would lose his job over this, even if only for a month or two…(stupid cock sucker of a boss…)

Our world would turn upside down.  Our fate unknown…

 

 

I’m 29 years old, and if it’s the slightest bit hot, I sweat buckets.  I walk by people, not a drip of sweat on them, but me, I need a towel to constantly wipe my brow.  What the hell is wrong with me? Is there some kind of medical miracle that will help me tame this annoying bodily function? 

Not only that, but even when I’m not sweating (or if I’ve JUST wiped the sweat off my face) my face is as red as a tomato.  I look like a freak!  Is there no help for this?

I dread going out today.  I promised my kids I’d take them to the fair, but it’s hot already and it’s not even 10.  What will it be like in an hour after M gets up from his nap?  UGGG…

So, I just found out last week that after 18 years in remission, my mother has breast cancer again.  Diagnosis is that it’s “aggressive”.  She’s living up north, away from the better medical facilities, so obviously my sisters and I were concerned about her treatment.  She told us that her doctor, who practices out of a local hospital up there, wanted to perform a partial mascectomy.  I asked her “Do you think you are going to get the best treatment up there?”  I’m sure I can speak for my sisters when I say that I wish my parents lived down here in the city where there is a better selection of doctors – lets face it – they aren’t getting any younger or healthier…

Since then, my mom did get a second opinion, which nixed the mascectomy and is doing a ‘sentinal node biopsy’ instead.  Then, if things don’t go as planned, she may have to undergo radiation.

Wanna know the kicker?  The same week we found out about my mom, my dad was also diagnosed with cancer.  They have ruled out lymphoma, but they are doing further tests to see where the malignant mass originated from…

Did I mention my my co-worker is out this week, getting a node removed from her neck due to her thyroid cancer? Geez…