I am very excited . I am setting up another Coffee Break March 20, 2010. This will be bigger and better then the first one last August. Get your friends and family together and have a coffee break from your thyroid disease. It is the best stress buster there is. We can laugh and cry and just have a little fun. Let's let the whole world know we have a Thyroid Disease and we are not ashamed of it. Are you all going to join me??? If not, why not???
I am very excited . I am setting up another Coffee Break March 20, 2010. This will be bigger and better then the first one last August. Get your friends and family together and have a coffee break from your thyroid disease. It is the best stress buster there is. We can laugh and cry and just have a little fun. Let's let the whole world know we have a Thyroid Disease and we are not ashamed of it. Are you all going to join me??? If not, why not???
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So what am I up to lately? Well I am going through my book shelves and packing up my books. One of my son's came by and was helping (?). He can read a book a day , speed reader since he was 10. His wife and son's are the same. Any way he took a bag of books home. He said "I will bring them back next week" And he will. He has way to many books for his house and gives me a lot of books to "SAVE' for him. So, he will bring back more books then he takes.
The reason for packing up the books is we are finely after all these years going to have our dream of moving back to the country. When my kids were little we lived on the "Marpo Ranch" . Actually there is "Marpo 1" and "Marpo 2". The one in the mountains is gone now but I now have the second one. This one has no buildings and was only used for growing . It is 38 acres with outlining trees. We will put a house trailer out there while we build our house. I have a lot of son's, grandsons and son in laws to put to work on it. They all love it down there as a very large lake is just down the road. They like to jet ski and go boating. Next week we are taking the travel trailer and another trailer of building supplies. I guess we will stay a week while a storage building is built. Then goes the tools, tractor's and tillers.The house stuff will be the last to go ofcourse. I get so tired so easy ,so I am taking my time packing. Not going to be fast moving everything. We have to take everything 160 miles and we will take two trucks with trailers every time. We want this done no later then March. I need to start my seeds for planting. So it looks like I will have a very busy summer and loving every minute of it. Just came from the Dear Thyroid site. There are things happening there. You really need to check it out. I will also be posting in the forum her.
The question of the day is: "Have you ever considered writing a post about Thyroid Disease and about how 'sexy' it is?" Now you are thinking "What the heck is Elaine talking about now?" Well go to the Dear Thyroid site and find out. The link is here on my site. There are many interesting topics on the Dear Thyroid site. You WILL finds one you will want to comment on. You can also find out how to get a Dear Thyroid bracelet. What are you waiting for go look for your self. I never use to think about being sick with a long term illness. My mom has had so many different things wrong with her over the years that I did not want to be like her. She is still going strong at 85. I love my mom but she has used her illness to have us all feel guilty and feel sorry for her. Don't get me wrong. I do feel sorry for my mom she has been through a lot with breast cancer, heart attacks, knee implant and cancer of the intestines. She is cancer free, Thank God. She still lives in her own apartment and gets around just fine.
When I first got diagnosed with Graves' Disease and I found out what it was all about (Still learning). I told my mom. Well as always she was sicker than I was. If I told her my heart was racing and I was scared...she just knew she was going to have another heart attack (last one was in the 80's, she has a pace maker). When I told her about the tremors in my hands...she thought she was getting Perkinsons. When I had my first eye surgery, she came over that night I got home. I was resting sitting up and couldn't see much and was in so much pain. Also I was out of it. My mom made me move my feet so she could sit on the couch to watch a movie. I told her I wanted to rest and she said it was not that bad her surgeries were much worst. She wanted to watch the movie yet stayed talking about her own surgery all evening till my daughter said I really needed to rest. My husband kept the light off by me because the light hurt my eyes, she kept turning it on. All through this disease I have tried not to tell my mom much about any of it. She will always be sicker and hurt more than me. I had not talked to her since Christmas. Today she called to wish me Happy Birthday (It was a week ago). She asked how I was feeling, I said I was tired. She went on and on about she was so sick this past week. She could not even get out of the house. Same old same old. I guess that is way I did not talk about my illness very much for a long time. I don't want to be like her. But, I do have an illness that is not curable. I have learned that I do need to talk about it. People have to know about this disease. I have to get others with this disease to not be ashamed of having it. I realize I am not acting like my mom and just complaining. With so many people with this disease being told that they just complain it is hard for us to talk about it. Even doctors don't believe us sometimes. Well, this is my vent for today. My mom just upsets me. I do have to keep my distance from her much of the time. Not a problem. I am the black sheep of the family. It snowed pretty heavy last night. I do love to watch the snow falling. I use to love to play in the snow with my family. These last few years with Graves' Disease has put a lot of fun things in my life on hold. I was just reading another blog from a person with a thyroid condition. It got me to thinking. This is not something that is a big surprise to any of us.
She was talking about how she does not really talk about her disease to her family. You know that is a big part of the problem I think. We tend to brush it under the rug so to speak. We pretend to feel better than we really do. We do things to make ourselves look normal to others, no matter how bad we are really feeling. I really must write to Dear 5thyroid and address this. I know they do address it over there, but I think we need to really talk about this. We are all feeling so tired and out of sorts. We do not want to complain or seem to be feeling sorry for ourselves. Come on why can't we feel sorry for ourselves? We feel like hell and we need to own up to that more. Right now I don't care if people think I am feeling sorry for myself, why??? Because I am feeling sorry for myself. And so should you. We do not deserve this, nobody does. So now I am off for a good snow ball fight and get this frustration out . Where did the time go. I can not believe I am 63 today. I have to admit I feel better than I have in a long time. These past 10 years with Graves' Disease and TED have taken away a lot from me. There were things I wanted to do that I just could not do. Those of you with this disease know exactly what I am talking about. I became a hermit, refusing to even leave the house to go buy groceries. I was so depressed I didn't even dress up any more. Make up, well that was out of the question. My eyes hurt and were watery. I could not wear make up if I wanted to.
My husband gave up so much. He tells people the disease was in his house and that it had changed our whole family. We dropped out of organizations that meant a lot to us. We stopped going to family gatherings, stopped traveling, stopped going camping, stopped going out to dinner and most of all we stopped dancing. My husband and I both loved to go out dancing. We went every Friday night. Well, I can now say my husband is taking me dancing tonight. We are back to our tradition of not going out for New Years, but going out for my birthday. Last Summer I was walking with a cane, because my knee joints and back hurt so mush. It hurt to walk to the back yard. My meds I think may have something to do with it, but not all. I drink the Organo Gold coffee twice a day and drink the tea all day. Since November I also take the capsles with ganoderma. I am walking without pain, I have more energy, I can exercise again. |
ElaineI am the person that started the first coffee break. I Have had Graves' Disease for at least 10 years. I also have Thyroid Eye Disease. I give Thyroid Disease Support . My goal in life is to inform the public about Thyroid Disease. Archives
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