Lynda Heitleband Brewster https://www.giveforward.com/.../elaine-s-uterus-cancer-fundHelp Support Elaine's Uterus Cancer Fund www.giveforward.comShow Elaine support in her battle w/ uterus Cancer treatment 200 miles away. Need travel plus . Join friends & family Elaine has Thyroid Disease and Thyroid Eye Disease. She now has Uterus Cancer and needs surgery and possible radiation treatments. Her husband who is in remission from Prostate cance...
I just found out this week I have Uterus Cancer on top of my Graves' Disease and Ted. I go for an Exam and Pre-opp on the !2th. I do not know the expences I will have. But the gas alone to travel 200 miles ...well more then one trip I can not do. In the mean time some very good friends and family are trying to help me and I am posting the Fund Raiser here. Thank You and God Bless. I will keep you updated.
Lynda Heitleband Brewster https://www.giveforward.com/.../elaine-s-uterus-cancer-fundHelp Support Elaine's Uterus Cancer Fund www.giveforward.comShow Elaine support in her battle w/ uterus Cancer treatment 200 miles away. Need travel plus . Join friends & family Elaine has Thyroid Disease and Thyroid Eye Disease. She now has Uterus Cancer and needs surgery and possible radiation treatments. Her husband who is in remission from Prostate cance...
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Halloween is coming soon. I love Halloween. Why? I like ghost stories for one thing . And I live in a nice historical town that has lots of ghost stories. From Aliens to ghosts. I also love costumes. My mom use to make costumes for a dancing school.. That is where I got free dancing lessons. But, that is another story.
Any way I have a Face Book group.. Trinidad: Swap,Share and barter. We do not allow any selling. But we share stries, projects and other things besides swapping. We also have monthly meetings to swap things and stories. Well this month I decided to have a "Witch and Zombie Tea". I had it in the after noon so we would not get to scared. As we shared spooky stories. I made a perfect witch with my crazy looking eyes,lol. Should have done this when my eyes where really pooped out. I would have won best witch costume,lol. I made a gory looking torso cake that had bloody slash's on it. People came as Witch's, warlocks, wizards and Zombies. We had a baby and teens as well as grown ups. Very kid friendly with only Teas and cookies and candy. I made goody bags and the teens really enjoyed filling the bags up with goodies. The cost was next to nothing and with a small town where there is not much to do...well it was a fun afternoon. I just thought I would share this with all of you. We need some fun in our life. Sorry about not posting for awhile. Sometimes I get burned out on the Thyroid subject and just have to get away from it for awhile and regroup. Sometimes things are happening in my life that I just need to take care of. AS my Blog is not a paid job and so I do not have to be here all the time...well some times I just get lazy about it.
But if you have a Thyroid disease you know it will not let you off the hook for long. It will sneak up on you and kick your butt again when you least expect it. So here I am back on the job. I have good news and bad. The good news is ; now that we are living back in our small home town I am feeling a lot better. My eyes do not hurt and water so much because there is no smog or pollution here. I still wear my sun glass's a lot but I can now go sit in the shade with out them . Well for a little bit,lol. I also have a great Doctor who is willing to work with me and listen to me. Wahoo. As some of you may know I go to a new doctor with a notebook with all my medical information. Even has X-rays. It includes my EKG's, and Lab, appointments and all info from weight to vital. Before going to the doctor the 1st page has my questions and things bothering me. So when I walked in this new doctors office I am ready. The nurse was impressed because I just handed her a paper with all my health information . She just had to copy. This doctor actually sat and talked to me for almost 2 hrs . I told him Synthroid and Levoxitine made me sick and did nothing for me and I wanted Amour. He had his lap top and asked where do you want to pick it up. Sent it straight out himself. I liked him more and more by the minute. He made sure I had an appointment with another doctor to do my Pap and another appointment for a memmogram. Dang where has this doctor been hiding? This is almost unheard of in our Thyroid world. So I go see the other doctor the next week and she does the Pap and also 2 biopsies. You see I had been bleeding off and on for a month. Next thing I know I go for an viginal ultra sound and EKG and Monday I go for a DNC. She did not get a good enough reading from the biopsie and the ultra sound. So she will do a DNC to check out the bad cells she found. So that is the bad news...going in for a DNC. But also good news as I will find out what the .....is wrong with me. I have found out that it is not unusual for a women with a Thyroid disease to have unusual bleeding. And at 66 and not having had a period for over 15 years... well I would say that is unusual. I am happy to report that I am very happy with my 2 new doctors. One my regular Doctor and the other my GN. No I do not have an Endo. I do not think I need one. Also I am happy to report that I now do not drop off to sleep in my food or every time I sit down. I am not sleeping 12-18 hrs a day any more. I sleep 8-9 hours at night and maybe a 1-2 hr nap in the after noon. I also do not get up 6-7 times a night. Now maybe once or twice. I seem to be getting more energy and not so sluggish. My ambition is coming back. So for me the new doctors and the Amour are working....Yahoo. I will keep you updated about my DNC next week. I am hoping it is not a big thing...maybe just a Dust and Clean job. Now for my Coffee Break and a good book. "To all my friends I never met before" Elaine Apodaca-Martinez Here's the link to the Facebook page - Dance over there and "like" it please. https://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Dance-100-Days/433731030047844
One Dance 100 Day's To get as many people as we can to do One dance 100 Day's Page: 55 like this One Dance 100 Day's To get as many people as we can to do One dance 100 Day'sOne Dance 100 Day's To get as many people as we can to do One dance 100 Day's PLease support 2 Thyroid sisters here and give us a LIKE on our Face Book page. If Irene can walk we can DAnce. Do it for your heart for your health for yourself Thanks I need some input on this. Most of you know I have TED, Graves' Disease and I am now Hypo. I have had 9 eye surgeries and RAI because of possible cancer and my goiter. Around 04-05 I was falling a lot and I was cock eyed. One eye seeing up and one eye down. I could not drive and have not driven a car since. Most of the time my eyes are ok. I can see ok and only need reading glass's. My eyes do still float around when I am tired. And I feel like I am looking out of a tube because if I look too far left or right my eyes go haywire.
Needless to say I panic if in a crowd or big store unless I can hang on to my daughter or husband. Now as long as I have a buggy to hang onto ..I am good. I still fall some times at home...so very careful when out. I gave my 1st speech to a crowd last year. I had given my last one in 05. Me in a nut shell. So I have adapted. I do not go out much. My husband makes sure to take me out for rides once a week and out to a quite dinner or lunch. I may go shopping with him twice a month. We moved back to our small home town last year and I have been getting connected to friends from here on FB. Yesterday I was invited to coffee w/ 3 of these friends this week. It did not hit me till I told my husband he would have to drop me off and maybe pick me up. I realized it has been 7 years since I went some place alone. I always have my daughter or my husband w/ me. This was such an eye opener for me. My husband said not to worry I will be ok. I sleep with TED by Elaine Apodaca-Martinez
Yes I have been sleeping with TED for about eight years now. Yes, my husband knows all about TED. He may not like it but that is just the way it is. I don’t like TED eighter, but I will sleep with TED for the rest of my life. TED sleeps with some of my friends to. Not all of them but a good many. TED does not care if they are a man or a women, young or old. TED even slept with one or two of my aunts. The thing is TED treats some of us better than others. But on the most part TED treats us all pretty bad. Some of us, TED treats real bad. I know I have gone in the hospital and had surgery 9 times because of TED. Many of my friends have gone in for surgery because of TED. Some more than others. What is real bad about it is my husband gets blamed and gets the dirty looks for the black eyes and swelling I have because of TED. I feel real bad about that. My husband may have to put up with my sleeping with TED and TED being in our bed and waking him up at night. But he should not get the back lash of what TED does to me from people that just don’t understand our arrangement. My poor husband has wiped away my tears many a day because of the pain TED gives me. He gets real upset when TED did not allow me to go outside in the sunshine. TED lets me out a little more now. There was days and weeks when TED would not let me out on a bright day. And TED hates wind and even a small breeze from a ceiling fan. So many a day I had to suffer because I could not fan myself or be by a fan on a hot day. I don’t wear eye make up much any more, it irritates TED to no end. TED has made me cry so often that I lost count. There are days I may not be crying but my eyes are tearing because of TED. I have many pairs of sunglass’s because of TED. TED makes my eyes and my face look so unrecognizable that I hate to even take pictures. My husband has taken some of me over the years to prove to people what TED has done to me. I have talked to many doctors about TED. Some are understanding some not so much. I did find a good doctor who has given me good advise on how to live with TED over the years. I try to pass it on to my friends that also sleep with TED and the ones that may not plan to sleep with TED but TED will make you. Do not think for a minute you have a choice here. If TED is out to get you and sleep with you …well you just have to do it. My advice is try to make the best of it and make yourself as comfortable with him as you can. Maybe TED won’t be so hard on you as TED has been to myself and others. The more you know about TED and what to expect the better off you will be. I wish I knew back a few years ago what I know now about TED. Today y husband and I are use to TED sleeping in the bed with us…but we do not allow TED to get between us. We ignore TED as much as we can. I make sure I am comfortable with TED before I go to bed. TED likes moisture in our bedroom. TED likes Vaseline around my eyes at night and the bed raised a bit or at least more pillows. TED prefers for me to wear a night mask also and to put drops in my eyes. This all makes day more manageable . We do not want TED to flare up…oh no. Keep TED calm by all means. For those who do not know TED or even heard of TED, I will give out TED’s full name so you can watch out for TED. Remember if your eyes get itchy, start swelling and popping out. If you start seeing double…like one eye looking up and one looking down. Watch out ! TED may be around. TED sometimes comes to your house alone but has been know to follow old Mr. Graves’. That is how TED got in my house. TED followed Mr. Graves’. Now both of them live at my house and yes I sleep with Mr. Graves’ too. Yes…it is bad. Having Graves’ Disease and “Thyroid Eye Disease”, better known as TED, in your house and having to live with them both is VERY Bad. I hope you enjoyed my little story . I wish it was just a story. But it is all to true. May they never move in with you and a loved one. Graves"Disease Coffee Break Hypoman asked about multi tasking. I posted this for him on his page. Then I thought some of you who do not read his page may find this interesting.
May seem crazy..but people think we are any way and it works for me. I work from home and need to be on the computer plus get my house stuff and other things done..multi task...right? I use a timer. 15 min to 1/2 hr. on computer, 15 min to 1/2 hr in the kitchen or cleaning up. 15 min. to 1/2 hr resting, reading or sewing or doing a hidden object or word game. I will some times use 15 min. to one hour. I am now hypo and also have TED, I misspell words and forget what things are, my joins hurt but I need to exercise more. Soooo...I multi task this way. It gets me moving regular, keeps my mind sharp, I get things done with out getting to tired standing or walking, plus I get my much needed rest with out over doing it. I find if I am on a schedule I get more done. If I keep myself moving and doing I get more done. One more thing, it is hard for me to be out in crowded places now or even go out much because of my eyes. My husband makes it a point to to take me for a "Road Trip" in a different direction on Sunday's. Since we moved back home to a small beautiful community we go on our "5 minute or one hour "Road Trip". Elaine Apodaca-Martinez Please, Please, Pass this on to as many people as you can. Thanks!
Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure. Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around. Congressional Reform Act of 2012 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Don't you think it's time?Like · · Promote · 16 minutes ago · Just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May your New year be filled with Love, Happiness and Health for you and yours. May the good Earth provide you with all you need and may only good spirits visit your door.
Elaine My husband wrote this today about a picture of a Marine who on his own stood watch over a school. No weapon ...just in combat uniform . Letting people know somebody was watching. If more of us did this instead of wasting time talking about things not important. Our schools and our children would be safe.
Louis Marty Martinez I hate posting on this Face Book. But this really got to me. And before something is said that you may be sorry for later.. For all of you who are so ready to run your mouth, condeme and creticize anyone who takes it up on themselves to protect schools with children without the influence of others. You are very ignorant,stupit and sorry people. Before you go about saying something about anyone...you should get your facts correct and in order. Make sure that you know what your talking about. If you don't like somethings give a reason for that dislike. If you don't like the President, that is your business. But remember President Obama is YOUR President. Who won the election. The Marine who stood guard in front of this school all day with out a weapon, with out water, with out help from any one deserves a Big Simper Fi from every Marine and everyone else. I am a retired combat Airborne Ranger and I know that I can wear combat fatigues or my dress Uniform any time any place with out fear of reprisal from anyone. The President of the United States, any ranking officer of any military service of the United States. You people who are so ready to voice stupidities, you go and stand guard at any school to keep violence from happening the way this great Marine did. You should all be proud of him...I AM. If you can not do that go find yourself a corner to hide in and cover your head. All others Thank him and everyone else like him. Now is not the time to use this great deed to say something bad about OUR President . Now is the time to stand in front of our schools together |
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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